Pantry Wine Rack Unit

This last weekend we started working on the last unit in the pantry that goes above the base unit with the fir top. This is the unit that was redesigned to have the wine rack in the top portion of it. The first picture shows the plywood frame that is the base to the whole unit.

The wine rack portion is a little more complicated than the rest of the unit so I thought it would be good to have a full size layout to measure and and cut all of the pieces.

With a little bit of measuring and accurate cutting on the tablesaw all of the diagonal pieces were cut and the fit checked in the opening. In addition, a bunch of other spacers to go the other direction were cut.
At this point some of the pieces were assembled and some were kept loose so that I would be able to install everything. We took this opportunity to put a couple of coats of paint on all of the surfaces except those where a glue joint will be needed. In addition the back was put on the cabinet and the inside of the wine rack portion was painted.Here the wine rack portion is installed in its cavity. It took a little while to get all of the spacers lined up and everything in place. It might look a little strange....but only the central 11 holes will be accessible. The rest of the holes will be covered by the trim piece around the top and sides. It will make a little more sense when the front trim gets installed.