HEY! NICE RACK! Modern and Interesting Firewood Holders

Since buying a weekend place in the Mountains, I have discovered things that I never thought would be needed or important. No, I am not talking about some existential discovery from the solitude. I am talking about something far more deep and important. For instance: what to store your firewood in (for the evening/day) inside the house? You don't want a small pile just sitting there, and you also don't want a big ugly rack. We used two vintage cubes for the last 2 years, that we would stack our pile in for the nights use. It works, but for our new house I think we can do better. I found some pretty nice racks (no pun intended).

The first is an amusing picture of a man who clearly got a tat, chopped some wood, then built himself a nice modern firewood holder using some cement/concrete and some metal rods. He was so exhausted, that he thought he deserved a cold one after all that and propped himself up against his handy work to drink it. I agree, you do deserve a beer for that rack. The design is actually from Ak47 designs and they do some other very cool firewood racks I will show below as well.


I guess this chair could be comfy if you threw a sheepskin over it, but it doesn't seem like a chair to snuggle in and sip wine. It is freakin cool though.


I am loving this little guy and I think I could probably make something like this myself with some plexi. It is a tad small for my needs but for city folk and the teensy little holes they get as fireplaces (if they are lucky)  it would be perfection.

Now this is handy. I can usually only carry one piece of wood a time from the stack in back. Especially because the wood is nasty and I don't want to touch it much. This would solve that problem splendidly, though I still won't be wearing a white trench to do it.

Here is a cute small holder, very stylish and simple, no need for a model with wine, or a beer drinking dude to qualify this teardrop.

Now the granddaddy of wood holders is this bad boy here by Olle Lundberg. Naturally you would need a colossal space to hold it, but how cool is this- you have your art right there??

Now below is the holder I am thinking of primarily for our new place, it is a sleek slim design and it still will hold enough wood. I love the separation for the logs, the fuel and the kindling. You can buy it on Amazon.com- but only if you like to spend a grand on a fireplace holder. I think I may be able to mock something up like this with some helpers. It won't be glass, but hey, I think that is kinda scary anyhow. The same company makes another version in white steel below that is $1209.00. I think it can be done for less....don't you?

They are all good starting off points, and I think they can be made. In fact I think the husband and I could make one....I am thinking that we could recreate that first photo up there, down to the beer in hand.

I found these 4' long steel rods (5 in a pack for $23.10 , and there are 2 sets above, so we are at $46.20)

Purchase the cement and the form for the base for $10.00- and well I am seeing maybe $60.00 being spent to create that first holder) The extra $4.00 I added was for the beer.

Ciao for now.