The Happiness Behind Creating A Custom Wine Cellar

Posted by wine cellar on May 18th, 2017

Wine enthusiasts are not just passionate about wines, but creating a bespoke storage space is everyone’s dream. There is a hidden pleasure behind creating an exotic wine cellar in your house, which can be interpreted as snobbish idea or pretention of money, but for a wine connoisseur, it doesn’t matter what people think.  There is a joy behind creating your own wine cellar and it’s quite rewarding as well.

Over the years people collect lots of wine bottles they anticipated when they started this amazing hobby. For a cellar, you need an appropriate space, some electrical installation and suitable humidity for wine maturation. A great idea to start making a custom wine cellar is to line your ceiling with panels from wooden wine crates, and for decoration, you can hang a black iron chandelier that reflects a classical ambiance.

Create your own cellar

For many centuries, the word wine cellars remind something of a dark windowless space with old bottled stuffed into cubicles and wooden barrels emanate a strange smell of wine and damp. This image though looks fancy, but doesn’t suit a new generation for practical reasons. Wine collecting for many, is now a social hobby rather than an investment.

If you have a small space, you can create your own custom wine cellar design with a French paned glass, LED lights and open sleeves. Sometimes, people don’t have a basement to pursue their hobby, so they create this custom design in their own living rooms.

Misconceptions about wine cellar

Concrete walls provide coolness appropriate for wine maturation

It is a misconception that concrete walls are good for cooling, and typically used for wine cellars. In fact, concrete is not a good insulator, and the best temperature to stabilize wine maturation is around 55 degrees F. It is therefore important to frame in front of the concrete and insulate and sheetrock, it will gain heat through ceiling and concrete walls.

Climate control is optional 

If you are not storing your wines inside a cave where natural humidity and environment processes natural wine maturation, you need climate control and in some cases humidifier for correct maturation of your expensive wines. The best custom wine cellar design involves these two essential systems.

How to select a wine cellar designer

There are a few approaches to locate the right planner for your venture. Begin by asking friends and associates who've they worked with before, attempt to see their final finished product. This way you get certain ideas about wine collection. You can ask for professional consultation for wine collection and to choose your best custom wine cellar design that suits your finance and space. Before choosing a contractor, you should understand the fundamental of wine collection and creating cellars in own house. This will help to negotiate with the contractor. Ideally, you should also look for their works, if possible go to the site and find out the detailing about the cellar. You can create your own custom made design by researching in internet and ask your contractor to do the job for you. However, every internet picture seems easy to create and captivating to look at, but in a practical field, it will be a difficult task. So, you need to be pragmatic while choosing your design.

About the Author

Alder Shriver is a wine expert who has been in this business for 25 long years. She writes about many articles on custom wine cellar design, also giving consultation on how to preserve wines for longer period of time and other important aspects of custom wine cellar.

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