joeycannoli
Senior Member
Thought I would take the time and share with you all the wine cellar I recently completed over at my neighbors house. I am fortunate enough to have bought a house next to my best friends parents, so with the passion with both have for wine we decided to build a cellar to store it all. The entire cellar took about 4 months to complete. We mostly worked during the weekends and occasionally after work during the week.
This is a passive wine room as the basement is under ground level. The room pretty much stays mid-60's year-round without any major temperature swings. Racking is made by Vinotemp in Premium Redwood. Capacity is around 1200 bottles or so. We also fitted a 800cfm Hyperfan into the ceiling for smoking cigars.
It didn't take my neighbor long to get the racks filled up! He is almost at capacity and uses his own custom excel sheet to keep track of all the wine in the cellar.
Enjoy the pictures and let me know if you have any questions!
Starting to frame out the cellar. The ceilings are just under 8 ft tall.
Another framed out wall. Outside walls were already insulated.
Starting to get an idea on how the racks are going to be fitting once the room was complete.
We framed in a nice french door for the entrance into the cellar.
Rest of the wall framed in with the french doors and some of the electrical run. All electrical boxes are in at this point.
We went with 9 total LED recessed lights for the ceiling that we placed on a dimmer. Plenty of light to fill the room.
Some more electrical being run to the switch box. We have a switch for the recessed lights, one for the hyperfan, and one for strip lights placed above the display section of the wine racks.
We then wrapped all of the walls / ceiling with Tyvek to help keep air and moisture out.
Next step was to throw up the drywall. Thank goodness for the drywall jack we used for the ceiling. Made things a lot easier to get those large sheets into place.
The only part of the room build that I didn't do myself was the spackle and sanding part. I absolutely loathe doing it so we hired an excellent contractor to take care of this step for us. Bless anyone that does this type of work because it really is an art (and a pain in the ***).
Fast forward to this picture where the walls are painted, outlets are installed, lights connected and the vent fan done. Don't mind the dark spots of paint on the walls. We had to go back and touch up right before the picture was taken so it was still wet.
We ended up selecting an olive green for the walls and a very earth-tone colored tile because this color combo we felt went extremely well with the natural finish of the wine racks. We were originally thinking of staining the racks a dark colors and doing a more toscan yellow on the walls, but didn't want to take away the natural beauty of the racks.
This is a passive wine room as the basement is under ground level. The room pretty much stays mid-60's year-round without any major temperature swings. Racking is made by Vinotemp in Premium Redwood. Capacity is around 1200 bottles or so. We also fitted a 800cfm Hyperfan into the ceiling for smoking cigars.
It didn't take my neighbor long to get the racks filled up! He is almost at capacity and uses his own custom excel sheet to keep track of all the wine in the cellar.
Enjoy the pictures and let me know if you have any questions!
Starting to frame out the cellar. The ceilings are just under 8 ft tall.
Another framed out wall. Outside walls were already insulated.
Starting to get an idea on how the racks are going to be fitting once the room was complete.
We framed in a nice french door for the entrance into the cellar.
Rest of the wall framed in with the french doors and some of the electrical run. All electrical boxes are in at this point.
We went with 9 total LED recessed lights for the ceiling that we placed on a dimmer. Plenty of light to fill the room.
Some more electrical being run to the switch box. We have a switch for the recessed lights, one for the hyperfan, and one for strip lights placed above the display section of the wine racks.
We then wrapped all of the walls / ceiling with Tyvek to help keep air and moisture out.
Next step was to throw up the drywall. Thank goodness for the drywall jack we used for the ceiling. Made things a lot easier to get those large sheets into place.
The only part of the room build that I didn't do myself was the spackle and sanding part. I absolutely loathe doing it so we hired an excellent contractor to take care of this step for us. Bless anyone that does this type of work because it really is an art (and a pain in the ***).
Fast forward to this picture where the walls are painted, outlets are installed, lights connected and the vent fan done. Don't mind the dark spots of paint on the walls. We had to go back and touch up right before the picture was taken so it was still wet.
We ended up selecting an olive green for the walls and a very earth-tone colored tile because this color combo we felt went extremely well with the natural finish of the wine racks. We were originally thinking of staining the racks a dark colors and doing a more toscan yellow on the walls, but didn't want to take away the natural beauty of the racks.
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