No Place to Wine

Our new house has more kitchen cupboard space than the rental did, but what it doesn't have is a nice pantry. It has a very goofy pantry. I will show it to you sometime, but only when I have come up with a solution to it!

Wine, liquor and wine glasses are big space hogs, so I decided to get creative and try to find alternate storage for them. Since we now have our microwave on top of our refrigerator, our old microwave stand was the perfect start. It was easy, of course, to just put all the bottles on the bottom shelf, but how to store the wine glasses... We went to Home Depot hoping they would have stemware racks we could attack to the bottom of the cutting board top, but they didn't. And I didn't want to wait to find and order some online, so I created my own!

I bought a long stick of wood trim and a few (shorter) 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch sticks of wood.

Then, I cut them into 14-inch lengths, and stacked the trim on top of the 1/2 inch sticks.

I pre-drilled a hole at each end so the wood wouldn't split, then used my countersink (thanks, Dad!)  to make room for the head of the wood screw, and then I screwed them down tight.

Et voila! A wine glass rack!

Next time I do this, I'll be able to make them more beautiful, but I am happy to have accomplished this at all. :)