Wine Cellar Design
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What You Need To Consider When Designing A Wine Cellar
If you have a wine collection, or even deciding to join a wine club, you may be deciding on a wine cellar design. Wines can sell for $135,000 per bottle or even higher, so it makes sense to store them correctly. Even if your bottles are under $50, you deserve to feel proud of your collection…mine are and I am! You worked hard to earn the money to buy them in the first place, so now you need a place to maintain them. What’s better than storing them in a wine cellar that you designed yourself?
Getting Started
Before you get down to the really fun stuff, you have some decisions to make. Firstly, wine must be stored at a temperature between 45-65 °F. So choosing a location is extremely important. An active wine cellar is typically a wine cellar that is designed to be highly insulated, offering maximum protection to your wine. Active wine cellars will be the ones you can really design on your own, because they are the ones that are added onto houses as entirely new rooms. Passive wine cellars are most commonly a basement wine cellar design, which will in some ways restrict your ability to design your cellar, because its dimensions are already fixed.
If you’re designing a wine cellar from the ground up, it can be as big or as small as you want. You can design the wine cellar so that you can store a wine collection you feel is completed – and thus you won’t need more space – or you can design a wine cellar with lots of room to grow!
What Can You Include In Your Wine Cellar Design?
In addition to the dimensions, you can also choose to specially design the wine cellar’s shape. Some people choose to build their wine cellars in the shape of a pentagon, which – if measured correctly – can hold 768 bottles of wine in just 130 square feet! With each 20” deep wine rack installed into that space, and 92 inches of height to work with, that fits 18 rows of shelving, even leaving a center row for easy access. Don’t forget that you also have to design your wine cellar around the cooling and humidifying units you’ll have to install. The size of your wine bottles matters as well – you need to account for everything from splits to 750ml to magnums.
Virtually ever component of your wine cellar can be custom designed: layout, door design, storage type. Your doors can be wrought iron or wood, with their own designs or etchings. You can have horizontal or vertical racks installed. You can even go all out and choose to have custom stonework, woodwork or cabinetry installed, depending on how intricate you want to get! It’s all up to you, so don’t be shy and make a bold statement!
Tips for Buying a Wine Rack
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Whether you are interested in starting your own wine collection or you just seem to get a lot wine as gifts from friends, it would be a good idea to buy a nice wine rack where you can store and display your bottles. A wine rack is basically just a display shelf or container for wines, but it can also be used as a focal point in the interior design of your kitchen, dining room, den or living room. In choosing a wine rack, there are several factors that you should take into consideration.
Designs of Wine Racks
The fundamental design of most wine racks is very similar to a bookshelf, with individual compartments to hold each bottle of wine. Each level of the shelf is tilted downwards towards the front, where there is a stopper that will keep the wine bottles from falling off. While some may think that this design is only meant for aesthetic purposes, it is actually a practical method of keeping the cork of the wine wet and immersed in the liquid. This is said to be necessary so that the cork doesn’t dry up and eventually fall into the bottle, which may happen if the bottles are kept standing in the shelves right side up for a very long time.
Most types of wine racks today are made from wood, although there are also many varieties that are manufactured from iron, plastic or even glass. The choice will depend entirely on the individual’s taste, as well as the existing design in the rest of the room. Wine racks also come in different sizes, with larger ones that can be placed right on the floor, as well as smaller ones that are meant to be placed on top of tables or the kitchen counter.
There are also several types of wine racks that also include containers for wine glasses. This is quite practical for wine lovers who not only like to collect the wine but to drink them on a regular basis as well. Of course, there are also wine glass holders that can be purchased separately from wine racks — again, the choice will depend on the preference of the individual. When it comes to purchasing both wines and wine racks, there really are not many rules to follow. The important thing is that you are happy and satisfied with what you have purchased.
