Salvaged-wood wine rack

As a contractor working on old houses, Tom often has to remove old beams and floorboards to make way for new materials. But he’s careful to save some of those wood remnants—which may have been milled hundreds of years ago—and keep them out of the dumpster. “I look for old wood with stable knots and tight grain that takes a stain really nice,” Tom says. “It’s a little more effort to clean up the old boards, but I think it’s worth it.”

For this wine-rack project, Tom and Kevin milled all the parts from a weathered 8-by-10-inch-by-12-foot-long white