DIY: A Mailing-Tube Wine Rack

CasaSugar — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:30:43 -0700

If the wine racks for beginners I featured earlier today don't fit your look or your price range, then perhaps you'll be interested in this project from ReadyMade on how to make your own wine rack from mailing tubes. The process is ridiculously easy, and the results are surprisingly cute, so you can have a bevy of bottle storage in no time.

Bottle Pocket Wine Rack via ReadyMade

What You'll Need

Cardboard mailing tubes (ours were 3 1/2" in diameter x 36")
Paint (optional)
Round color-coded stickers (optional)
Plenty of wine
Measuring tape
Pencil
Hand saw
Sandpaper (200 grit)
Paintbrush (optional)

For step-by-step instructions, read more

How to Make It

Measure the space where you want to install the wine rack. If it’s a shelf, make sure it’s strong enough to support all those bottles. (We put ours on a bottom shelf to be safe.)
Measure and mark your tubes in increments of 9" (just enough to cover most of a wine bottle).
Cut the tubes along your marks with the hand saw, taking care to keep the cuts even. Sand off any cardboard fragments.
If you want to paint the tubes, do it now. Make sure they dry completely before continuing.
Stack your tubes.
Gather your wine. OCD types may want to come up with their own systems of categorizing bottle caps with color-coded stickers (to parse out which vintages are for everyday drinking and which are special occasion Pinots).
Raise a toast to your not-so-hard work.

Best of 2007: DIY Projects

CasaSugar — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:45:27 -0800

This year I threw a lot of DIY projects at you. Some of these I found from some great outside sources, and others I made up myself. You seemed to dig the DIY, since these posts were some of the most emailed of the year!

Here are some of my favorite DIY posts this year:

I gave you direction on how to stitch up some cloth napkins with a binding edge.
You still have time to DIY a holiday gift of decoupage on glass.
You agreed that this mailing-tube wine rack was a winner.
A great way to take your home's art to a higher level of sophistication is with matting, which I showed you how to do yourself.
Readers directed us to the DIY Blueprint-inspired light projects they completed.
My easy snowflake chandeliers are perfect for the holidays or a wintertime party.

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