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Beautify my Wine cabinet/closet

4 years ago

This is in a hall way off the kitchen in our 1926 Spanish home.
I had the panels of the door taken and added this metal mesh that I thought looked Moroccan. It looks ok but uninteresting.
I don’t want to faux paint the door for fear of it looking cutesy.
Any other ideas?

Comments (16)

  • 4 years ago

    The photo does not show the metal grid properly. It’s a light metallic gold finish and a pattern leaning towards Moroccan.

  • 4 years ago

    A wine cabinet? It's cute! I think it would look great with leaded glass -- particularly a grape pattern. If you want to stick with a Spanish influence you can try an image search for ideas, but that will show mostly ornate iron works. Your door is paneled so not exactly engineered for that look.

  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    I am sorry but to me it looks like a cheap screen door. The design seems too simple to hint at Moroccan.

    I think the look of wine bottles is attractive so I am wondering if you could add one of two decor items--a coffee table-type wine book and maybe some lovely vintage glass graps (like occasionally seen on One King's Lane)--to the display.

    Could we see the cabinet with the door fully open?

  • 4 years ago

    Well, kinda admit it looks a couple steps above cheap. We have a lot of wine so no room for added accessories.

  • 4 years ago

    I apologize for my hurtful choice of word, Kathy. It probably does look better in person. What goes in empty shelf? Do you have enough wine to fill all the spaces or do you routinely have any empty spaces? Is there any room between the bottle and the door when the door is closed?

  • 4 years ago

    No need to apologize. Really I laughed. We ordered another insert which is made of iron
    Also, here a better pic of the mesh.

  • 4 years ago

    It not the best set up but the only place in our home to store wine. This was a small closet.

    If other idea come this way I can return the iron rack.
    I thought about putting some nail heads on the door.

    But, is that adding insult to injury.

  • 4 years ago

    Do you even need the door?

  • 4 years ago

    I wondered about that too. But the closet is off the garage next to a bathroom. We thought the bottles would need to be dusted more often. Even though we go through them pretty fast.

  • 4 years ago

    I would just get rid of the door and leave it open.

  • PRO
    4 years ago

    Have you looked at wine fridges they come in all kinds of sizes and the best is they store wine at the proper temp so worth having lots on hand .

  • 4 years ago

    We would love a wine fridge but nothing fits.

  • 4 years ago

    I think the problems is that the large pattern of the bottle X's draws attention away from the small screen pattern rather than the small pattern commanding the attention. If you painted the X's dark so they blended with the cabinet, the screen would once again be star, but idk if that's what you want. I think you need to decide if you want the door or the wine to be the focus, but as is, I don't think you can have both.

  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    With your house style, I think wrought iron would look good, too.








  • 4 years ago

    Thank you. We will get the new wine rack and see what that does and go from there.

  • 4 years ago

    Honestly, I think what you have looks perfectly fine, plus it’s functional.

    Has a quirky feel I like. :)