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Custom Wine Cellar For Your Home

by Summer Wilde

Custom wine cellars are becoming a sound and cost effective way to store your large or small assortment of wine collections. Some vintages require aging and proper storage to bring them to their full complete potential. A custom wine cellar can allow you to enjoy your treasured collection in a room built for their requirements

A wine cellar will increase the social status, dignity and value of your house. Though the chief motive of creating a custom wine cellar is the personal enjoyment that you desire while at home; it obviously enhances the resell value of your abode. Custom wine cellars, wine refrigerators and wine cabinets are the most fashionable requisites and are of much value in judging the social status of the possessor.

You can plan and build a custom wine cellar chiefly for the storage of wine, taking into account the space, finances and the free access to your wine. It can be built in any location in your house. For the preservation of the wine you may use your kitchen, any corner of any room, a vacant cabinet, the attic or the space under your staircase. But the basement would be a better choice than the others.

Each custom wine cellar needs sufficient space for placement of the racking and other mechanical structures. It can also hold a miniature counter and a small amount of crate, bulk, or tub wine storage space. The walls may require appropriate insulation to sustain steady temperature, and it must have a vapor barrier to avoid condensation inside its walls and so as to maintain its humidity.

The cellar's entrance should be sealed with border climate stripping and insulated so as to keep cold, moist air inside the cellar. And, certainly, it needs appropriate refrigeration as well as humidity systems for climate control management, along with electrical wiring to provide room lighting.

Setting up custom racking is the final step in designing your wine cellar. Racks should hold your wine collection within the cellar's dimensions. Remember that some odd-sized bottles may not fit into an off-the-shelf wine rack. Other considerations include: what finishing trim to use (baseboards and crown moldings); whether lighting is needed; countertops and cabinets, if necessary; a door; and any other amenities. A carefully designed home wine cellar will give you and your family great pleasure for years to come.

A custom wine cellar, wine refrigerator, or wine cabinet is a good addition to a home, for the wine-enthusiast's enjoyment. Especially in an upscale neighborhood, it can also add resale value to the home. The size and expense of installing a wine cellar in a home can range from reasonable to expensive, depending on the size of the storage area and the elaborateness of design. Wine storage can be situated in any area of the home, but the basement is usually the best place. There are many different designs, but there must be sufficient rack space, and there must be proper sealing and insulation.

Published June 23rd, 2008

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