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!
The Appeal of Wrought Iron Wine Racks
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Wrought iron wine racks are among the few home accessories that can truly be considered both very functional yet highly decorative at the same time. In fact, at first glance, it would seem that a wrought iron wine rack is nothing but a fancy piece of ornamental furniture for the home because of their intricate designs. But besides their aesthetic appeal, wrought iron wine racks actually offer a lot of functionality and practicality, especially for homeowners who particularly love wine and displaying their wine storage.
Choosing the Perfect Wine Rack
If you go to an ordinary furniture store or wine shop, you will probably see a handful of wine racks for you to choose from. But if you don’t find the perfect one to suit your needs, you can just as easily have one made that will cater to your preferences. This is one of the advantages that come with wrought iron wine racks — since the material is very malleable and easy to fashion into different designs, you can actually design one yourself and have it made exactly as you like it.
Types of Wrought Iron Wine Racks
Whether you want a custom-made wine rack or are content to buy a ready-made one from the stores, there are a lot of options for you to consider. There are the free-standing wrought iron wine racks that can be placed on the floor against the wall. There are smaller ones that may be placed on counter-tops, or hung from the ceiling. Some wrought iron wine racks also come with a special container for wine glasses, making them very convenient for serving and storage.
If you have a fairly large wine collection, you might want to buy one of the larger designs that can accommodate a dozen bottles or more. Such wine racks look very much like ordinary shelves, with each layer containing several compartments designed to hold the wine bottles individually.
In choosing a wine rack for your home, the level of functionality and individual designs are not the only factors that you should be taking into consideration. In addition, you should also see how they will fit into the current look of the room. It is always a good idea for the wrought iron wine racks to complement the existing design of a room, instead of just fading into the background or becoming an eyesore.
