Upcycled Clay Pipe Wine Rack
Upcycled Clay Pipe Wine Rack
Hello friends and welcome back. Today I’m bringing you a wine rack made from clay pipes I rescued from a dump pile.
This would be the exact moment that I’m rescuing those clay pipes. You can even see one of the pipes peaking out from the ditch he’s still hiding in. Instead of helping me with the rescue, hubs is sitting in the car taking my picture. I’m sure he’s thinking…What the heck are you going to do with those?… Are they going to get my car dirty? and…Can we go now?
No worries, I have a plan. 😆
And that plan is a wine rack. Did you know that one of these old clay pipes is the perfect size for a regular size wine bottle?
I also needed sides, that’s where a pair of old vintage doors come in handy. And shelves, made from reclaimed wood.
BTW, if you don’t happen to have a dump pile near you, you could try Facebook Marketplace.
The doors, while narrower than a normal sized door, were still a little too wide for my wine rack. I don’t mind a few inches wider than the clay pipes but I still needed to cut about 3 inches off on both sides of each of the doors. Try not to cut into your panels if you have them.
Add your top and bottom shelf from reclaimed wood. They should be equal to the width of your door and just slightly wider than the clay pipes. Use wood screws to attach.
At this point I worried that if I stacked 12 clay pipes on top of each other with the added weight of 12 bottles of wine that the clay pipes would collapse on themselves. I needed a couple of shelves midway to take some of the weight.
Lay out your pipes alongside the door and see where the shelf breaks would make the most sense. The inner shelves should be symmetrical , but they also need to occur on the strongest and thickest parts of the door, not in the panels. You need something to screw into. While 4, 4, and 4 would be pleasing to the eye, all of the breaks would have occurred midpanel. I eventually settled on 5, 2, and 5.
Screw in your shelves from the outside of the door.
Now if I had planned ahead of time , knowing how narrow the inside of my wine rack was going to be, I may have painted the interior before joining the doors together. It’s just a little messy.
For some inexpensive trim, I’m running a 2×4 thru a table saw set at about 1/4″ on both sides.
The 2×4 has slightly rounded corners which gives a nice edge. One 2×4 yields 16 feet of trim and you’re left with an additional 2×3 to do with what you may. Win, win, win.
With finish nails, I attached the 2×4 trim to the rough cut edges of the shelves as well as the door edges.
Fill in any nail or screw holes with wood putty and paint your doors. These doors were painted a nice deep green leftover from my coffee bar and kitchen island. I also stained the trim, I believe that this was dark walnut but a 2×4 doesn’t take stain too well. I was left with just a nice medium brown.
To finish off your piece. add extra trim around the top and bottom of the door, think baseboard trim, and paint in a contrasting color.
Find out how you can make your own DIY bar here with reclaimed wood and another old door.
Until next time, stay inspired.
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