Wine Cellar South wall

 I finally finished the South wall of the Wine Cellar. Now all I have to do is go buy around 400 bottles of wine/whiskey!!

There is lots of history of the different wood I used.



The wood used to build the X's are from the original shelves in the cellar. The house was finished in 1950 so I'm guessing the wood is from the mid 40's.




The shelves besides the mirror, in front of the mirror, the top shelf and the wine display shelf came from the smoke house on the Brixey place from around 1880. The original log cabin and smoke house was built by Barney Brixey my great great grandfather.


The smoke house.


The legs between the shelves came from the trellises down at the Cimmeron River. They were built by Franklin D. Roosevelt's WPA program sometime between 1935 and 1944 to help with erosion when the river floods. They are heavily treated with creosote and will probably last another 100 years.



The mirror was my grandmothers. I'm not exactly sure how old it is. I do know it was originally a "Moonlight over Capri" by Casati painting and was converted into a mirror at some point.


All the sewer pipe I dug up from the backyard. It took me forever to clean them all!

I'm kidding they came from Lowes.

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