DIY Wine Glass Storage for your Cabinet

Wine glasses can be difficult to store, and they often take up lots of space. Here is a quick, easy, and budget-friendly way to make vertical storage for your cabinets. This DIY storage will accommodate not only your wine glasses but also any other wide-based, stemmed glasses.

Cabinet interiors with tall shelves like this one leave ample room for wine glasses to hang. When done this way, you can store your wine glasses without limiting the storage space beneath them.

Here are some easy steps to bring this convenient setup to your cupboard!

Materials For Wine Glass Rack

T-Shaped Wood Moldings

Measure the depth of your cabinet to learn the length of molding its interior can support. Then purchase as many molding pieces as needed to accommodate your wine glass collection. If you can’t find an appropriately shaped molding, you can just make your own.

Screws

The screws you use must be long enough to drive through your moldings and into your cabinet, without penetrating completely through the cabinet’s shelf or frame.

Drill and Drill Bit

For this project, you’ll need to drill through your moldings and into your cabinet. Make sure you also have a drill bit that corresponds to the screws you will be using.

Procedure

1. Make T-shaped Wine Glass Rack

If you manage to find some correctly shaped T-moldings at your hardware store, great! You can skip this step.

But if you’re unlucky like me and your local store didn’t have any moldings in that shape, you’ll have to create your own. I made each of mine by connecting two ½-inch by ¾-inch wood rods to one long 1-inch by ¼-inch decorative molding.

2. Pre-Drill Holes in Moldings

To get your moldings ready for installation, and to make drilling through them and into your cabinet much easier on yourself, predrill holes from the bottom and through the top of your T-shaped molding.

To ensure that the moldings can be attached to your cabinet evenly, make sure that your holes are consistently spaced between each molding and drilled straight through, not at an angle.

3. Pre-Drill Holes in Cabinet

With your moldings prepared, measure out their spacing so that your wine glasses will be able to safely dangle without being too constricted to move, or in danger of falling through the spaces between the moldings and shattering.

Once you’ve figured out the spacing, mark the location of the holes you need to drill and then pre-drill up into the bottom of your cabinet’s shelf, or into the top of the cabinet box, depending on where you’d like your glasses to hang from.

4. Secure Moldings to Cabinet

Now for the last step, simply align the pre-drilled holes of your moldings to the pre-drilled holes in your cabinet, and then screw them securely together one-by-one.