Built-in Wine Bar and Cabinets

This project was on the drawing board for over a year while I rebuilt and rode a classic motorcycle, which promptly reminded me that old men and fast cycles often do not mix well.  After the leg healed up, I got going on this built-in wine bar.  

It is designed to sit in an unused corner of the dining room.  Style, wood, and color were matched to the existing cherry kitchen cabinets as best as possible.  It houses the wine refrigerator, has a sliding storage rack (right hand lower cabinet) for the dining table extension leaves, some bottle racks for storage and easy access, some hangers for wine glasses, and a small gadget drawer (left upper cab).  I have yet to add the granite counter top and tiled backsplash, but the woodworking is finally finished.

I used a set of Freud raised panel  and matched stile and rail cutters on the router table to form the doors.  The shelf pinholes (1/4" dia.) were drilled on my CNC, giving me excellent consistency on hole placement.  I used a homebuilt sled to clamp the rails for the end cuts on the router table.  The lower cabinets are built as a single unit in order to fit all the required equipment into the available space.  This meant building two sub assemblies to get them into the room (weight and size were an issue for a guy with a gimp leg) and then performing the final glue up in the dining room.

The cabinet carcasses are 3/4" cherry veneer plywood edged with a 1/4" thick strip of solid cherry.  Doors are solid cherry, and the gadget drawer is solid maple.  The stain is  Varathane 'Colonial Maple' finished with three coats of Varathane satin oil based poly.