Bottle Canopy Above a Dining Table
Storage lifted above the table instead of beside it: a glass-front cabinet carried across the dining zone so the floor stays clear and the bottles sit over the room.
What the photographs show
A long dining table with chairs, and the bottle storage running above it, glass-fronted and lit, with pendant lights in front. The cabinet is out of reach of the table, which is what makes the arrangement work.
What the build had to solve
A cabinet over a table is a height problem before it is a storage problem. Underside height is set so nobody stands up into it, the doors are hinged rather than sliding because there is no room to slide, and the frame is fixed into the ceiling structure rather than hanging from plaster. Lighting is on a separate circuit from the room pendants.
What to copy, and what to avoid
Worth copying: hinged leaves overhead. Worth avoiding: hanging a heavy cabinet from a plasterboard ceiling — the fixings go to the joists or to a steel added for it.
- Mount
- Ceiling-fixed over the table
- Doors
- Hinged, opening clear of the seating
- Underside
- Set above standing head height
- Fixings
- Into structure, not plasterboard
- Lighting
- Separate circuit from room pendants
- Production
- 30 to 40 days, quoted per project
Frame 18 mm · glass panes up to 2,400 mm · scribe 40 mm · door reveal 3 mm · lead time 30 to 40 days, quoted per project · crated to a numbered setting-out drawing
The same scene, frame by frame
Photographs from our project archive, grouped by room type rather than by client. No client and no address is named on these pages.
What clients ask about a room like this one
How high should the underside sit?
High enough that the tallest person at the table can stand without meeting it, and no higher than the light can still reach the bottles. The number is fixed on the drawing, from your ceiling height.
Can it be cooled?
Over a dining table we usually advise against it: cool air drops onto the table. Passive storage overhead and a cooled cabinet elsewhere is the arrangement most clients end up with.
A room like this one, to your dimensions
Send three photographs of the wall and the bottle count. What comes back is a scheme, a drawing and a fixed price.