Over the long weekend, Stewart picked up the butcher block for the countertop at Ikea and found the steel piping for the upper shelf at Home Depot, where he also had it cut to the length he needed. The upper shelf itself is a piece of butcher block donated by a friend. The biggest challenge of this project was mounting the shelving to the wall, which connects to the home’s garage and is made of concrete brick. “I wore down two bits trying to drill through that wall,” Chris Stewart says. “I had to have a friend come over and help me drill the holes.”To get through the wall, Stewart’s friend, who is a commercial architect, used a drill bit designed specifically for poured concrete or masonry. Once Stewart and his friend made the holes, they attached the 1-inch pipes to the flanges and screwed the flanges into the walls with masonry screws, using the holes they’d made with the specialty drill bit. The caps on the end of the pipes are purely decorative.The countertop is actually resting on the two side-by-side refrigerators; Stewart used a circular saw to cut it to perfectly fit around the bump-out in the wall. Each of the wine fridges stands 24 inches wide and holds 53 bottles of wine...
Over the long weekend, Stewart picked up the butcher block for the countertop at Ikea and found the steel piping for the upper shelf at Home Depot, where he also had it cut to the length he needed. The upper shelf itself is a piece of butcher block donated by a friend. The biggest challenge of this project was mounting the shelving to the wall, which connects to the home’s garage and is made of concrete brick. “I wore down two bits trying to drill through that wall,” Chris Stewart says. “I had to have a friend come over and help me drill the holes.”To get through the wall, Stewart’s friend, who is a commercial architect, used a drill bit designed specifically for poured concrete or masonry. Once Stewart and his friend made the holes, they attached the 1-inch pipes to the flanges and screwed the flanges into the walls with masonry screws, using the holes they’d made with the specialty drill bit. The caps on the end of the pipes are purely decorative.The countertop is actually resting on the two side-by-side refrigerators; Stewart used a circular saw to cut it to perfectly fit around the bump-out in the wall. Each of the wine fridges stands 24 inches wide and holds 53 bottles of wine...
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