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Unfinished business
Entered: 2009-01-25
Edited: 2009-01-31
Type: woodworking

I just realized that I failed to post pictures of a couple of completed wood working projects I'd shown off here. First is this wine rack:




Sadly this wine rack fell off the wall about two weeks after hanging it, destroying most of it's contents in the process. On the bright side I'm a better cabinet maker than I am a cabinet installer and the rack itself was relatively undamaged. Some of the crown molding popped off and needed to be repaired and there were some scratches from broken glass that needed to be planed out and refinished, basically you can't even tell that it fell.

It fell because when I was designing it I failed to account for the fact that it was to be a hanging cabinet and didn't leave enough empty space in the back to allow a proper French cleat to be installed so I was left with a jerry rigged setup with a French cleat on the bottom (as seen in the pictures) with a screw hidden in the back to help keep it balanced. Well the drywall anchor in the back wasn't strong enough to hold the rack upright and when it gave the whole thing just tipped over and fell to the floor, right before my eyes... at 1AM no less. In the fall we lost two bottles of wine and that lovely duck decanter. I tell it's no fun cleaning red wine and broken glass and crystal out of white carpet!

The rack itself took surprisingly little damage in the fall. Some dings in the face frame from broken glass and crown molding popped off. It only took me about an hour to fix when I calmed down a few days later and could look at it without getting sick. I'd show new pictures but honestly you can't tell it even fell.

The fall happened early last September and I just now got around to rehanging it. Part of the reason it sat around so long after being fixed is that we really didn't trust the wall it was hung on. We had a hell of time finding the wall studs as whoever framed the wall out didn't put them on 16" centers, as is customary. Some didn't go all the way from the floor to the ceiling etc... all in all a pretty shoddy DIY project by a former owner, so I had to build a hanging cleat that only required one stud behind it, but attached in multiple places. Our mistrust in the wall finally gave way to our irritation at not being able to use the rack. I opted for the same system I used in the small wine rack I gave my sister for giftmas but because it was a retro fit the cabinet won't sit flush with the wall. I'm going to have to install an extra strip of molding to cover the gap but it's up again and it's not going anywhere this time.

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