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How-To: Remove Red Wine Stains
Sometimes you can get away with treating stains at a later date, but when it comes to red wine stains, it's best to treat the spill immediately. If you find yourself with a ring of shiraz on your favorite white tablecloth, or a drip of pinot noir on a beautiful blouse, take these steps as soon as possible. I'll tell you how to banish stubborn red wine stains when you read more
Cool Idea: Spiral Wine Cellars
I've always wanted a wine cellar, but they're hard to come by when you're house hunting, and it's not so easy to build a cellar for a house that's already built! That is, unless you call up Spiral Cellars. The design firm will essentially dig a hole in whatever room you want a cellar, with a trap door to match your flooring if you want, and install a wine cellar that you access via a spiral staircase beneath the floor.
Crave Worthy: Modern Cellar Skylight Wine Credenza
I'm a big fan of any piece of furniture that serves my drinking habit . . .
Love It or Hate It? BettyLou Cordless Lamp
The Mmckenna BettyLou Cordless Lamp ($275) is a cordless rechargeable lamp that sits on a wine glass and shines for over seven hours, until it needs to be recharged on its base. If you're a wino, this is probably right up your alley. But then again, you might be tempted to use the included glass to serve yourself some Sauvignon Blanc .
Casa Verde: From Bottle to Building
I like my Sancerre, my Sauvignon Blanc, and my Beaujolais Nouveau, and I have been known to drink wine from a box. Heck, I'll try any kind of wine you pour. When all of these bottles are finished, and I toss them into my recycling bin, their corks don't land in the trash; I've been saving my corks for a few months now to make a wine cork mirror.
Good, Better, Best: Wine Racks
A friend asked me to find her a handsome wine rack for her bedroom because her recent grad roommates consistently drink any "booze" she leaves in the kitchen. Natch, I agreed. There are plenty of stylish wine racks, so I knew it wouldn't be a difficult task.
DIY: Wine Glass Candle Lampshades
In your blog travels, you may have come across the Dekoop Gorgeous Helen Wine Shades ($20), which tops off your wine glasses to make easy votive lamps for your parties. I couldn't get them off my mind for months when I first saw them; I thought they were so clever. Then, lucky me, I came across a DIY to make them.
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How-To: Get the Red Out
As we get closer to the holiday season, you can virtually guarantee that all of the festivities and merry making will lead to a red wine stain or two. But don't worry, you can usually combat that stain, especially if you act fast. Learn how to get the red out when you read more
DIY: A Mailing-Tube Wine Rack
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)
Bold Wine Racks for Beginners
Before long, even the most casual wine lover needs a wine rack. I'm hardly a wine cellar-worthy oenophile, but I still have at least five or six bottles in my house at any given time. So I've been on the lookout for a well-designed, eye-catching wine rack that's just big enough to accommodate a small but significant collection.
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