Building a Home

[samh004]

Any particular reason you used Click?

That just happened to be the business my mother bought the rails for her apartment from, and I know they work quite well so I figured I may as well use the same system. Pretty easy installation too – it's 3 points in the wall per metre, spaced evenly apart, drill a hole, insert a wall plug, screw the fitting on (which is a small silver button) and then the rail clips onto all the buttons, so the load is evenly distributed. The nylon cable is pretty inconspicuous, but the steel cable doesn't look too bad for the heavier items either.

The rails come in 1 and 2 metre lengths, but with high ceilings and good measurements you sometimes can't even tell where they join unless looking very closely.



The below photo is the entrance hall where I installed 5m of rail. I need more art now!

 

[tgh]

We seldom move our art, each has a spot carefully selected and there it stays.. leads to a nail in the wall.
Easy to patch if ever moved.

 

[Matt_01]

I also dislike moving our art and when choosing a location sometimes I leave it for a day or two before actualling hanging. Having internal double brick walls and hard plaster drilling into the walls and plugs are required so getting the position wrong is a little more work to fix. If our art was not up I may would look into a system that @samh004 has used and knowing the way I am would have run it under the cornice line in every room. With 3.6m high ceilings and cornices between 350-450mm this type of system would most likely not be noticable.

 

[JohnK]

Congratulations @samh004.

Looks amazing. Hope it gives you both great joy over the years.

 

[samh004]

Figured I should post an update as I've made a few small changes after living in the house for a bit. First one I want to highlight is how I store my wine, as someone pointed out they thought the temp would fluctuate too much where I had originally envisaged it, and it was hard (and expensive) to keep cool. I re-jigged a room that was to be a study nook and installed a completely separate AC. Temp now ranges between 17-19, but those are the extremes, whenever I actually clock the gauge in the room it seems more like 18. I probably just need a more accurate gauge. It's a work in progress but works well at this stage.

There's currently 519 bottles in the cellar, with space for just north of a thousand. I'll share more photos in due course when the finishing touches are made to other areas that have had a revamp.

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