The Wine Outlet. Two stores, one located in the Shoprite Plaza on Rt 34 South in Wall and the other on the corner of Arnold Avenue & Rt 35 South in Point Pleasant. My job was to design, build and install cabinetry to house two separate Wine Dispensing machines for those who wish to taste their wine before purchasing. This also included 3 separate wine cooler dispensers for white wine, which requires chilling before serving. I’ve got to say - this dual store Wine Outlet project was one for the books! I can’t begin to tell you how many very long days, sleepless nights and weekends went into this job from start to completion. What I can say is that without a doubt it was a very unique challenge, but to be sure, a very satisfying and rewarding project. From the very first conceptual drawing until the very last installation screw was installed - I’ll be remembering these two stores for a very long time! I did post some “in progress” photos a month or so ago, but today I’m putting up photos of both stores in completion. Though I did finish up a few weeks ago, I’m just now finding the time to go through the countless photos I took to choose 20 of which I feel do the project the most justice. I’m very proud of this particular job - not so much because it was so difficult to fabricate, but more so due to some very unique assembly methods evolving out of the design, especially the daunting task of cantilevering the upper stemware rack assemblies out three feet with no apparent way to support them. After much scrambling and head scratching I was finally able to come up with two individual and viable solutions - each store had its own unique twist to the installation. Milling, sanding and cutting to size the almost two thousand individual pieces of cherry needed to build the bottle racks was the most tedious and arduous task I’ve accomplished in quite some time! Commercial work is inherently tedious primarily due to the sheer number of products the casework often supports. And to date I’ve built literally hundreds and hundreds of wine racks, wine cellars and bottle racks, but this pair of stores probably takes the cake for the most monotonous and laborious hours of the bunch! I love that my shop has such a varied and diversified scope of work to keep me always fully engrossed in my passion for woodworking. But if all I did every day of every week, all year long was to just sit and make up wine bottle racks of this nature, I can honestly say yours truly would be looking for an occupation change! But in the end I still had that wonderful and satisfying feeling of great accomplishment! Though I did have a couple guys give me some shop support (thank you Paul, especially), for the most part 90% of the effort building this project was done by my own two hands. As to the installation - I can’t thank my installation crew enough - they did put in some heavy hours putting together those final stages of installation for two separate stores. Thanks a ton for your efforts - Mike, Steve and Ray! I’d also like to thank Wine Outlet Store Manager Tom and his associate, Justin, for their gracious patience throughout the course of this project! And a huge thanks for the Jersey pork roll, egg & cheese sandwiches given to us after working through the night on the first installation by the owner of the two stores. Thanks Raju for that most delicious and timely breakfast! So, here ya go - another successful job from Custom Kitchens by Lubrich! From my Manasquan shop to your computer, iPad or cellphone screens - enjoy these photos! I can honestly vouch that the pleasure of designing, fabricating and installing the cabinetry for both of these stores will be one of the better memories for the 2014 calendar year in my shop!
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 20:50:24 +0000
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