• 5 metres of wooden strips 8mm x 8mm
• 8 metres of strips 15mm x 10mm
• four nuts and bolts, diameter 4-5mm
• wood glue
• saw
• hammer
• 'U' shape tacks (over 10mm in length)
• tape measure
• electric or hand drill

Pair these lengths up, each pair should have one strip with one hole and one strip with two holes. Bolt together, ensuring the strip with two holes sits on the inside. Tighten up enough so strips can swivel.

Take one of the strips 15 x 10 x 380mm. One end needs to be glued and tacked to the edge marked 'A' in fig.2. The other end of this strip should be attached in the same way to the other pair. Make sure when assembling this that both pairs of wood have the bolts on the inside.

Take another of the 15 x 10 x 380mm lengths. This needs to be glued and tacked to the insided pieces of wood of each pair, as shown in Fig. 4.

You will now be able to fold the rack out. Next you need to repeat stages 4 and 5, but glue and tack the strips lower down lengths 1 and 2 as shown in Fig.5.

The rack is now ready to receive the strips that hold the plates. Start with the 8 x 8 x 160mm strips. Look at Fig.5. The strips need to be glued and tacked to strips 5 and 3. The first piece to be joined should have a spacing of 15mm between it and the edge of strip no.1. Subsequent strips should then have a spacing of 13mm. The last strip down should then end with a space of 15mm against the inside edge. You should have two 160mm lengths remaining. These need to be placed on the other side of the rack, opposite the first and last strips you have just stuck down.

Take the last strip of wood measuring 15 x 10 x 318mm. Call this strip 7. On the legs of the rack with the extra drilled holes, measure 63mm up from the end of each leg and mark this with a pencil on the inside edges. Now take strip 7 and glue and tack to the legs, below the pencil line.

You can now glue and tack on the 8 x 8 x 299 strips. These will join to strips 6, 4 and 7. Place them so they sit directly opposite the strips already stuck down, and as described in stage 7.

The main part of the rack is finished, all that's left to do is complete the section that holds cups. In both of these drill a hole (4-5mm), 35mm in from the end. You need to countersink the holes so that when bolts are put through they sit flush to the wood.

There should also be two strips of wood remaining 292 x 15 x 10mm. These need to be joined to strips C and D as shown in Fig.6.

All that is remaining is to fix on the last strips for the cup rack, 12 lengths of 91 x 8 x 8mm. These should be joined across strips A and B as in Fig.6. The spacing of these should be 13mm or just match them up to strips on the main rack.