Tips for build a Perfect Wine Cellar Design

Building your custom wine cellar should be accomplished in as smooth a way as possible, from concept to design to the complete installation, may it be in residential or business locations.

Custom wine cellars should be as unique as every individual is, so you can take the liberty of designing what suits you.

Here are some of the essential elements you need to consider in obtaining a custom wine cellar design:

• Wine cellar (size, style, space)

The style and size of your wine room will depend on the number of bottles you need to store and also the location. It is very important to determine whether you want to focus on functional benefits, or beauty of presentation, or both. Decide on a space that is not directly exposed to sunlight. You definitely do not want to damage your wines due to temperature changes caused by improper wine storage. This is one of the reasons why wine bottles are colored and ideally stored in dark places.

• Wine racks (size, style, wood specie and wood finish)

Different wine cellar manufacturers offer different wine racking solutions. Wine racks come in many different sizes – six feet, seven feet, and eight feet heights. These are usually modular in nature to allow more customization options such as adding a top shelf, bin extender, cubicle extender, curved corner wine rack, display wine rack, and other interesting options. Pick a style that suits your taste, greatly enhances the appearance of your wine collection, and compliments the interior of your home, commercial venues, or even luxury yachts.

• Wine cellar door (design, size, and other specifications)

Captivating wine cellar doors give elegance to a wine room and sizes come in custom and standard dimensions. The doors can be customized in terms of width, jamb size, door swing, casement moldings, hinges, automatic door bottom, threshold, stain, and other features you want to include. You can even get them hand carved or with the glass etched with your design, the possibilities are endless. Review these options with your wine cellar specialist and always perform a quality check to ascertain longevity and maximum performance.

• Wine cellar flooring (use of wood, old oak barrels, and other flooring materials)

Highly recommended is the mainstay flooring material wood as it can tolerate humidity levels typical of a wine storage room. One good tip, don’t use carpets since they tend to develop mustiness and molds due to the humidity. Surprisingly, some wine cellar experts recommend recycling of old oak barrels to use as wood flooring material as they represent originality and natural beauty as well as making sure they are kept out of landfills making your cellar truly ‘green’.

• Wine cellar cooling system (types and factors to consider)

First of all, you need to know that home air conditioning units are totally different from the wine cooling equipment which are specially engineered to control the temperature and humidity levels inside the cellar. It is important that a controlled environment condition is maintained to promote proper wine cooling and wine aging, and prevent undesirable changes to the taste, smell, and general characteristic of your wines.

• Other factors to be considered

You may also specify the lighting effects and ambiance you want to achieve. Do you want lights that dim, a fancy chandelier or is your wine cellar contemporary in style? Are your wine racks going to have a display rack and do you want to highlight the wines being shown there? There are many options to consider and if you have a good custom wine cellar designer they should be able to guide you in picking the right fixtures to complement your wine cellar.