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Elegant Combination of Wine Racks in a Manhattan Beach Los Angeles Wine Cabinet

Overview of the Manhattan Beach Los Angeles Wine Cabinet Project

Coastal Custom Wine Cellars, one of the most trusted wine cellar builders in California, recently completed a custom wine cabinet for a client in Manhattan Beach Los Angeles. The wine cabinet is located at the house’s dining area.

Manhattan Beach Los Angeles Wine Cabinet Design

The wine cellar features elegant wine racking styles, glass wine cellar doors, and a wine cellar climate control system. The dimensions of this wine cabinet include a width of 15 feet and height of 9 feet. The total storage capacity is 840 wine bottles.

Width: 15’

Height: 9’

Bottle Capacity: 840 wine bottles

The challenge with this project was the limited space of the wine room, particularly its depth. This could have caused difficulty in accessing the wine bottles at the left and right sides of the cabinet.

Custom Wine Cabinet – Manhattan Project by Coastal

To address this problem, the Coastal team added a pair of Barolo glass wine cellar doors. The doors filled the whole length (128 inches) of the openings, which made bottle access on both sides easier.

This custom wine cabinet project is part of a large renovation that the owners were working on. The conversation and planning with Coastal started last July 2014, and construction began last October. They completed the construction one week before Christmas.

Merging Different Wine Racking Styles

The main feature of this custom wine cabinet display and storage facility is the wine racking style. Different types of wine racks were put together to create an efficient, elegant, and maximized wine storage space.

The wine racks are made of Premium Redwood, one of the most in demand wood species in the wine racking industry. They were finished with a Chestnut wood stain, which enhances the natural beauty of Premium Redwood and blends well with the fixture in the dining room.

Striking Custom Wine Racks

A remarkable combination of wine racking styles were used to maximize the storage space and create an elegant look for the wine cabinet display. The wine racks used are:

Single bottle storage cubicles
Diamond bins
Wood case bins
Label forward horizontal displays
A high reveal display row with LED lighting
A display cabinet for 3L bottles

The Barolo Style Glass Wine Cellar Doors

The Barolo style glass wine cellar door is a dual-pane glass wine cellar entryway with Q-Lon weather stripping and a concealed door bottom. With these features, the room is kept tightly sealed, cool air is prevented from escaping, and more energy is conserved.

Barolo Glass Wine Cellar Doors

The Barolo glass wine cellar doors were finished with a Chestnut wood stain, which enhances the color of the wood. In between the two glass wine cellar doors is a fixed window, where a label forward wine cabinet display is visible. This part of the wine cabinet is intended for storing 3-liter wine bottles.

The Wine Cellar Climate Control System

The Manhattan Beach Los Angeles wine cabinet includes a wine cellar climate control system. The Coastal team installed a ductless split wine cellar cooling unit from Arctic Metalworks, one of the best wine cellar cooling unit providers in California.

It is important for any wine storage facility to have a wine cellar climate control system installed. It provides and maintains the ideal temperature and humidity needed to promote the proper aging of wines.

Coastal recommended the ductless split wine cellar cooling unit because of its versatility and efficiency. With this type of cooling unit, the condenser, which is the noisiest part of the cooling system, is installed away from the wine room. How can this be an advantage?

Wine Cellar Climate Control System

Wine aging can be affected by vibration. It is best to keep wines away from possible sources of noise, movement and vibration, to allow for the natural aging process of wine.

For this wine cellar, the condenser was installed in the garage, while the evaporator was installed inside the wine cabinet. A custom designed louvered grill was used to cover the evaporator unit, and to keep any mechanical parts out of sight. A line set with copper tubing and electrical wiring was used to connect the condenser and the evaporator.

If the condenser is installed outdoors, it is always recommended to cover it with exterior housing, to prevent damage by harmful environmental elements.

About the Wine Cellar Builder

Coastal Custom Wine Cellars is a wine cellar expert with more than 10 years of experience. They offer services in California, New Jersey, Maryland, and the surrounding states.

Coastal Custom Wine Cellars also offers custom wine racks, wine cellar doors, wine cellar cooling units and wine cellar accessories, available for retail and/or installation.

Coastal provides design consultation services and 3D wine cellar design, all for free. If you have a wine cellar project at home or in a commercial setting, just contact Coastal Custom Wine Cellars.

Commercial Display Wine Cellar Cooling Unit Coto de Caza Golf & Racquet Club CA

Wine Guardian Refrigeration – Commercial Display Wine Cellars – Coto de Caza Golf & Racquet Club CA – A Processed Video Transcription

Wine Guardian Refrigeration – Commercial Display Wine Cellars – Coto de Caza Golf & Racquet Club CA .

Hi and thank you for visiting Coastal Custom Wine Cellars. I’m going to share a project with you today that we recently completed in Orange County, California.

In November 2013, I was contacted by an architectural firm in San Diego and they sent me this beautiful color rendering of the proposed remodel to the dining room area of the Coto de Caza Golf and Racquet Club.

Coto de Caza Golf and Racquet Club

The focus of our work was to be the enclosure here. This is approximately 11′ wide, 2′ deep and about 9′ tall. It was an area that the club members would have the opportunity to store and display some of their private collections. So after a number of consultations and a couple of site visits, we created some design work for them.

The wine racks were provided by Vintage View out of Denver, Colorado, and the wine cellar cooling unit was provided by Wine Guardian out of New York.

Let’s take a look at how we came about designing this and we are going to show you some photographs as well. What we are looking at here is the wine rack design. This is an overhead view of the area. It is a foot print, if you will, bird’s eye view. And as you can see the dimensions are posted, this is approximately 11′ wide, 2′ deep.

Vintage View Plan View – Coastal Custom Wine Cellars

This is the back side or fixed glass panels, so that all the club members on this side of the enclosure have a view of the wine cellar. This is the front side where there is a series of doors, three pairs to be exact.

The capacity of this particular wine enclosure is 1, 380 bottles. This is a front elevation. It is mostly label forward horizontal displays in a three deep configuration. In other words, behind the visible bottle, there are two more bottles stored to increase the capacity.

We also have a presentation row running the width of that. The back side is the fixed glass panel view and this is a side view illustration as well.

Coto de Caza Golf Club Commercial Wine Cellar Display

This single deep storage on the side of the vertical frame is for the rear or fixed panel, and on the front side we have a three deep configuration. This is where the series of doors are located.

Let’s take a look at how the cooling unit came to be. This is the rough frame construction of the wine enclosure. This is the cold air supply, and the cold air return.

The beautiful thing about the Wine Guardian ducted air handler systems is there’s no visible equipment in the wine room, and in this case that’s ideal because it’s all glass. Also, there’s no evaporator mounted on the wall occupying valuable wall space when in deep capacity could certainly be an issue.

Typically, these things are installed about 25 feet away from the enclosure. As you can see, just on the other side of the enclosure is the cold air supply that I mentioned.

Here is where the wine cellar cooling unit is actually placed in the ceiling and the cold air is supplied to and from the enclosure, and the hot air and the drain line heads out this way to the outdoors. It’s mounted in the ceiling as you can see.

Wine Guardian D088 Wine Cellar Cooling Unit

This is one of their larger units. Their model DO88 is placed in the ceiling. It requires a little bit of clearance around it, so that the ducting can be mounted into the various panels available.

Now let’s take a look at some of the wine racks. The finish on the wine racks is a platinum finish, brush nickel or kind of a stainless steel effect. As you can see, here is the cold air supply that we’ve been talking about.

Here’s the presentation row that was included on the wine racks. This is the back side or the rear fixed panel of the enclosure which will go along here.

Now we’ve installed the glass, it’s a 1/2″ tempered glass. The doors are quite tall and quite heavy, so we used commercial duty pivot hinges that are self-closing.

Stunning Commercial Wine Racks

We certainly didn’t want the wine cellar door to swing in being so heavy and causing damage to some of the wines. Also, there are lots of these at the bottom for security reasons. The enclosure now has some bottles stored inside.

These last few pictures will give you some different angles or the many different views that are available to the customers. It’s almost as if they’re floating inside the enclosure. It’s amazing. All in all, a fun project to work with, and we’d certainly like to help you design with your project if you have one.

You can reach out to us via our website: www.winecellarsbycoastal.com or call me at 949-355-4376. Cheers!

Beverly Hills Wine Cellar Installations Los Angeles Designs

Beverly Hills Wine Cellar Installations Los Angeles Designs – A Processed Video Transcription

Beverly Hills Wine Cellar Installations Los Angeles Designs .

Hi!

Thank you for visiting Coastal Custom Wine Cellars.

We’ll take you on a short video tour on a project that we recently completed in Beverly Hills.

Now, you might be wondering how in the world we created a wine cellar from this very, very broad canvas, and unfinished area of the home.

This is a photograph that I took the very first day I visited with Catherine Lampson.

Catherine is the interior designer who I worked with and partnered with to complete this project for the home wine cellar design Los Angeles.

We discussed many things such as bottle capacity, some wine cellar design features, some colors, glass walls versus fixed walls.

We had come up with a good plan and eventually get to these 3D visuals; but I want to take you through some of the photographs.

So, once we decided on a few of these key features, we got to working. We completed the walls so that indeed we had a little bit more of a framework to work within and to install in.

As you can see the back walls are now completed. It’s been sealed, insulated, and a moisture-proof drywall has been applied and as you can see the line set and electrical has been installed.

The line set is the wine cellar refrigeration lines and condensate drain lines that are needed for the split refrigeration system.

In this case, we used a dual air wine cellar refrigeration product by Arctic Metalworks of Los Angeles.

There’s also an opening for electrical so we dedicated 20m circuit to run through your compressors and your condensers and such.

We made quite a bit of progress over the weeks and as you can see, the finished product is quite a beautiful work.

Catherine and her team took care of the flooring, Coastal Wine Cellars provide the wine rack design for the custom wine racks, the refrigeration by Arctic Metalworks and we have a seamless glass wall and entry, which was provided by our friends at Glass and Door Design of Los Angeles.

We’re really happy with the result of this wine cellar design Los Angeles project and here’s a little bit more completed or finished room appearance with some furniture in it.

We created a complimentary three-dimensional design package for Catherine and her home owners to take a look at. This gives you a great visual of how the completed project is going to appear.

The total bottle capacities of the wine rack design are posted on the top right of this page which is referred to as the plan view because it’s an overhead view of the wine room.

The entries there at the bottom of the page just below the letter A. The letter A indicates elevation A, and of course, dimensions are posted around the perimeter as well.

So, let’s take a look at some of these wine cellar design features that were included in it that you saw in the photographs.

We’ll start from the bottom.

Here on the far left and at the far right you will see some icons that represent wood cases.

Those were the openings that we took a look at earlier for bulk storage.

But indeed you can put wood cases in there or simply just about anything you like actually.

All these custom wine racks by the way rest on a 4-inch toe kick.

You can see that from that side elevation on the right. It’s referred to as “rack left elevation” and you can see that’s toe kick’s four inches.

All the custom wine racks in between the wood cases are 750-milliliter opening, single-bottle storage openings measuring approximately three and three quarter by three and three quarter that translates to “you’ll be enabled to store standard champagne bottles, Oregon pinots, Ross, California Bluechips.”

Very few bottles will not fit into these openings.

Above the wood cases on the very far left and very far right, you’ll notice those little openings are a bit larger.

These are to accommodate 1.5-liter or magnum bottles above the tabletop area in the center, which is an open area with the solid side panels; above that is the louvered grill cover.

This is on a hinge and indeed conceals the mechanical appearance of the fan coil and the evaporator.

The thermostat is located on the left side of the room as you enter.

The label-forward horizontal displays add a nice touch, I think, and it got a lot of character.

These bottles are labeled forward for horizontal displays and enable you to store one bottle and, although, not visible, up to two bottles behind the visible bottle.

So, we were very happy with this wine cellar design project; the clients were thrilled.

We hope you visit us if you have a wine cellar design Los Angeles project at www.winecellarsbycoastal.com.

Cheers!

Wine Cellar Installations California – Laguna Beach Project by Coastal

Wine Cellar Installations California – Laguna Beach Project (A Processed Video Transcription)

Wine Cellar Installations California – Laguna Beach Project .

Hey, we’re in Laguna Beach, California today and we’re going to take a short tour of a wine cellar installations California project that we actually completed last spring, I think April or May. So let’s walk up the drive and take a look.

A Climate Controlled Wine Cellar – CellarPro Wine Cellar Cooling Units

CellarPro Wine Cellar Cooling Unit

We’re standing in the garage, so we’ll talk about the cooling unit. This is the rear of a self-contained cooling unit. These CellarPro wine cellar cooling units can deal with temperatures up to 110 degrees external temperature.

We don’t have to worry about it too much because we’re in Laguna Beach. This is what the back side of the wine cellar cooling unit looks like.

The cut air exhaust comes out from the top here. This is the filtration system for the intake and this comes in fiber glass replaceable filters or you can get a permanent aluminum frame and an aluminum filter that can be washed.

The Entryway Way – A Dual Paned Glass Wine Cellar Door

Barolo Wine Cellar Door

Okay, let’s take a look at the cellar. When you come down this hallway it’s a little cramped down here.

The first thing you’ll notice is the wine cellar door that we provided the customer; it’s called a Barolo style wine cellar door. It’s a dual pane insulated glass and gives a full view into the wine cellar.

All of our doors come with not only the dual pane glass, the stain, the finish, the casement molding (which is the trim around the perimeter of the door), weather stripping, the jamb, automatic door sweeps; in short, this door is ready to drop into any opening. They are custom built to fit your particular opening.

Wine Storage and Wine Display Furniture

Quarter Round Wine Display Rack

Let’s take a look at the inside of the wine cellar. First you’ll notice on the left side of the wine room is this beautiful quarter round wine display rack.

Not only can you store large format bottles like 3-liter bottles, but it is also an excellent place to display some decorative items such as decanters. It just makes a nice finish end to a length or a run.

For the most part these are 750 ml bottle openings. These openings are 3 3/4″ x 3 3/4″ so they will accommodate just about any size bottle into the opening, including standard champagne, California blue chips, and Oregon Pinots.

Just below the cubbyholes, we’ve got a high reveal wine display row. These are pitched to a 15 degree angle that not only allows you to show off your favorite labels, but also a good management tool because you can store wines above and below the wine display area.

Custom Sized Openings for Wood Cases

At the very bottom, we created custom-size openings for the wood cases that he likes to collect and display. As we pan towards the back of the wine room, here you can see we have some odd corners and turns that we had to make and so our installer Kyle did a great job in keeping that continuity and flow.

Single Bottle and Bulk Wine Storage

High Reveal and Horizontal Label Forward Wine Display

As we come to the right side of the wall, it’s more of the same thing – single bottle storage openings and high reveal wine display. But in this particular wall, just below the display row, we have a horizontal label forward wine display.

Depending on the size of the bottle, this particular bottle is a magnum (or 1.5 L), but if you’re storing Bordeaux style bottles, you can store easily three deep in this particular opening. So a total of six bottles can be potentially stored in this area.

Just below the horizontal display, we’ve got diamond bins for bulk storage. This is a great way to manage wines for those of you who buy in 6 packs, 12 lots, that sort of thing.

This is what we call our regular arch, which has a beautiful whittle board effect or appearance and solid tabletop. We’ve created an opening for puck lights and just above the arch is another horizontal opening for large format displays.

The Arch and Wine Cellar Cooling Unit

The cooling unit, as what we talked about earlier, is a CellarPro self-contained cooling unit. This does not require professional installation, refrigerant lines, and drain lines.

You simply have the wine cellar installations expert create an opening on the wall, just slightly larger than the actual physical dimensions. Put it in the wall, seal around it, and plug it in and your wine room’s cool.

LED Wine Cellar Lighting

We will talk a little bit about the wine cellar lighting. Earlier we mentioned that we provided LED lighting for these display rows, so it will illuminate some of your favorite bottles.

We also included a puck light to illuminate the tabletop area. The question I get from a lot of folks is what about the light fixtures for the ceiling? What should I use?

Wine Cellar Lighting System

Well, the answer is really not an answer because just about any light fixture can be used. Of course, the height of your cellar would determine that.

In this particular case we were supplied with a low profile track wine cellar lighting and it’s somewhat directional. Those can be turned to feature any portion of the wine cellar you’d like.

This light fixture here, the LED lights, and these two areas are actually on separate toddles. Control the mood and the lighting by using one of the appropriate toddles.

Jerry Wilson, Founder and Senior Design Consultant at Coastal

All in all a fun wine cellar installations California project to work with and we’ll certainly like to help you design your project if you have one. Reach out to us via our website www.winecellarsbycoastal.com or call me at 949-355-4376949-355-4376.

Cheers!

Residential Wine Cellar Under the Stairway Closet California Installation

Residential Wine Cellar Under Stairway Closet California Installation – A Processed Video Transcription

Hello and thank you for visiting Coastal Custom Wine Cellars!

I’m going to take you on a tour of a small wine cellar conversion project that we recently completed in Southern California, and then we’ll take a look at the design package for this particular residential wine cellar California project as well. This is a closet that was situated underneath the stairway.

Residential Wine Cellar Under Stairway Closet California Installation .

As you enter, it is certainly tall enough to walk into and maneuver for about 4 feet and then it rapidly descended to about a 5 feet height and took a right under 3 feet. It is limited in size because the back wall here is an exterior wall and made refrigeration method quite easy to select and to install.

Residential Wine Cellar Design – The Drawings

Let’s take a look at the drawings and then we’ll come back to some of the completed pictures of the residential wine cellar. This is an overhead view of the wine room.

The entry is up here on the top left and the walls are labeled A, B, C, and D, all the perimeter dimensions are posted, and on the top right of every page, in this particular page, you get the total capacity of 404 bottles. There’s not a lot of room to enter the area.

Wine Cellar Drawing Overhead View

So, this Elevation A we utilized a 6″ deep component that will lay the bottles sideways. We’ll take a look at that in a moment, but they’re label forward horizontal displays inverses a 13 1/2″ deep rack, which certainly allowed for more room to maneuver in the wine room and certainly didn’t impede the entry.

Elevation A was label forward horizontal displays. They stair step down to allow for the change in height of the ceiling because of the stair. The side elevations show the depths of the wine rack and we’ve got the height at its highest point.

Elevation B is the back wall across from the entry. It’s the exterior wall I mentioned and we’ve got a series of X-bins for bulk storage below, a little bit of single bottle storage above that before we hit a display row.

Wine Display Area

This is called a high reveal display row and as you’ll see here from the side view it’s pitched to the 15 degree angle so the liquid stays in contact with the cork. We’ve got a beautiful way to display the wines, lending some character to the area.

High Reveal Display Row

It’s a good management tool because you can place like wines above and below the display row. Nestled back deep in the wine cellar is the end wall.

We actually placed a wine cellar cooling unit. The reason this is a bit shorter than the other racks is because we placed the wine cellar cooling unit right above here, which we’ll see in some of the photographs.

Wine Racks Design Specifications

This small rack made a transition from the back wall to the right side wall and then as we come back towards the entry, we’ve got some bin storage, open bins for bulk and some more single bottle storage.

These are 3D visuals of the area, as you can see the entry and how it kind of made that L-shaped back to the rear portion here. It turned out nice. I think you’ll agree when you take a look at some of these photos.

3D Design – Residential Wine Cellar California

This wine cellar was created in a Philippine mahogany and we put what’s called a Chappo stain on it with a clear lacquer finish to give it a little bit of a luster. This is the entry, obviously after.

Wine Cellar Art Painting by Janina Pazdan

Wine Cellar Art Painting on the Wall and Ceiling

We had an artist come in and do some faux painting. The theme of this wine cellar art by Janina Pazdan is a grapevine.

If you live in Southern California, specifically Los Angeles and Orange County, we could make her services available to you as well. You see a little bit of that faux wine cellar art painting here on the slope ceiling, that’s the left side as you enter. The back wall with the X cubes.

Oak Wine Barrel Flooring

Oak Wine Barrel Flooring

We also utilized oak barrel series flooring. These are random links of tongue and groove style boards. They actually have some stampings or brandings from the cooperage on the top of the barrel.

These are the display row. Isn’t that beautiful? LED lighting, by the way, is on a separate switch with a dimmer so we can control the mood.

Here’s a little close up picture of some of the cooperage flooring, and our base molding. A close up of our LED lights. We had a little patching to do here, but that was remedied.

Split Wine Cellar Cooling Unit

WhisperKOOL Split Wine Cellar Cooling Unit

This is a WhisperKOOL Platinum mini split wine cellar cooling unit and it easily keeps the room at 55 to 57 degrees, minimal noise. As a matter of fact, I don’t think you would hear the noise anywhere but inside the wine cellar. You won’t hear it outside the residential wine cellar.

That’s me after a couple of glasses of wine. Cheers!

Wine Cellar Conversion – Before and After Photos

Completed Residential Wine Cellar California

Residential Wine Cellars in California: Essentials When Building One

There are lots of people who want to start their wine collection. If you want to start your own wine collection, you need to understand that you cannot begin without first making sure that you have a place to store them. Wines can’t just be stored anywhere because they need specific storage conditions for them age properly. The best place to store wines is in a residential custom wine cellar in Orange County, California.

A custom wine cellar in California can adequately provide the ideal conditions for your wines to mature tastefully. Learn about the basic elements to proper wine storage by reading through this article.

1. Lighting

It is imperative that when you have a custom wine cellar built in California, you keep it away from exposure to direct sunlight. There should be as little light as possible that reaches your wine bottles. There are various organic compounds within wine that are essential to its structure, aroma and flavor. Direct exposure to light, especially ultraviolet light, can potentially destroy these compounds and degrade the quality of your wines.

2. Vibration

Vibration isn’t really a big problem. It can occasionally be a problem when wines are exposed to too much of it like for example, when you keep your wine bottles on top of the kitchen refrigerator. Besides the risk of the bottles breaking, excess vibration can also prevent sediments from settling, and may affect the flavor of your wines. To protect your wine collection from vibration, store it in properly constructed custom wine racks in Orange County, California.

3. Humidity

Wines need to be kept in an adequately humid environment. Ideally, your custom wine cellar in Orange County should have a humidity level that ranges from 60% to 75%. Adequate humidity is necessary because too much and too little humidity can both damage your wine collection.

When humidity is above the ideal levels, moisture builds up and can ruin your wine bottle labels. Mold can form, too, and contaminate your wines. One way to prevent mold formation is by wrapping your wine bottles in saran wrap. Some people would use hair spray and other sealants, but these have unpleasant odors. Saran wrap effectively keeps mold out without having bad odors.

On the other hand, when the humidity is too low, corks may shrink and allow air to enter the bottles. When air comes in contact with the wine, oxidation happens, and this ruins the flavor of your wines. Wines that have been exposed to air often have a rusty taste to its flavor.

If your area has a very dry climate, or if your house is heated and cooled by central air, a good way to have humidity inside the custom wine cellar in CA is by placing a saucer of water inside.

4. Temperature

Temperature is the most important element to wine storage, and the most important consideration when building a home wine cellar in Orange County, California. Wines require a wine storage room wherein the temperature is maintained between 55 to 58 degrees Fahrenheit. There should be minimal to no fluctuations in the temperature level, because frequent fluctuations will negatively affect your wines. Have a quality wine cellar refrigeration system installed in your home custom wine cellar in CA, so that you can be sure that your wines are kept in the ideal storage temperature.

Residential Wine Cellar Design Garage Conversion Orange County California

Residential Wine Cellar Design Garage Conversion Orange County – A Processed Video Transcription

Residential Wine Cellar Design Garage Conversion Orange County .

A Wine Cellar Garage Conversion Project

Wine Cellar Garage Conversion Project California

Hey, we are at Dana Point California today and we are going to look at a residential wine cellar project that we wrapped up just this last October. As you can see, this is a 2-car garage and we actually took a portion or a segment of approximately 5′ long and 5′ wide, and we were able to store some 675 bottles.

We had a few obstacles to overcome besides all the bicycles and all the storage things because of the garage door and the track that it rolls on. We had a limited height to work with, but we were able to maintain some of the storage as you can see above here.

The Wine Cellar Door – Tuscan

Tuscan Wine Cellar Door

All in all, the wine cellar design came out really nice. The clients are very, very happy. The entry is our Tuscan wine cellar door.

It is a radius or true arch with a wrought iron gate and you can see some of the fine detail on the wrought iron with the grapes and the grape leaves. It’s a really nice theme, a very popular theme.

Operable Wrought Iron Wine Cellar Door

One of the nicest features of our Tuscan wine cellar door is that the wrought iron is actually operable. You can lift this little latch here on a hinge for cleaning purposes, so you can keep the dual pane glass free of dust and still create a nice view right into the wine cellar. The latch very simply attaches back to the wine cellar door.

We’re really happy how this all turned out. The customer picked out the paint scheme. It’s kind of a wine color that looks very, very nice with the Premium Redwood.

Cork Wine Cellar Flooring

See the subtle color variations in the wood. It really looks nice with this Pinot color scheme. The flooring is actually, although it looks like its wood, is cork floor, so it has a little bit of gist to it.

As you first enter the residential wine cellar, this particular client has lots of these wooden boxes for magnums and even for certainly larger wood cases for 12 packs and 6 packs, but we start off the run here with a solid quarter round display shelf.

Storage for Large Format Bottles

As we move back further into the cellar, lots of large format bottles (1.5-liter, 3-liter, 6-liter and even in the back you can see a 12-liter bottle). It was very important to him to be able to store and display these properly.

These are in a label forward horizontal display format. In the case of a smaller magnum-style bottle, we can get as many as four per opening, and two bottles per opening in a larger 3-bottle format. These wood shelves here are actually adjustable, so as his collection changes over the months and years, he can certainly adjust the shelving to their proper spacing.

Adjustable Shelves – Residential Wine Cellar

This back wall here, which is quite beautiful, also has adjustable shelves which were intended for wooden cases but certainly they’re fine for decorative features and things of that nature. The bottom portion of the shelf is a double deep lattice diamond bin for bulk configuration that certainly increased the capacity of this 12′ x 5′ wine room.

The lattice-style feature of the diamond bin allows for good air flow around the bottles and adds some nice attractive feature to the wine cellar. We come back down to the right side of the wall. We’ve got lots of single bottle storage with a high reveal display row.

15-Degree Angle Wine Display

These bottles are pitched to the 15 degree angle, so they’re liquid is still in contact with the cork. It gives the wine room a little character and it certainly shows off some of the labels. It is also a good management tool because you can put like wines above and below the display row.

This case opening here is indeed a solid case opening with a solid premium redwood tabletop. We have drawers here for every day accoutrements – corkscrews, napkins, and whatever you need for your wine cellar. More bulk storage down below in a diamond configuration.

The Wine Cellar Cooling Unit – CellarPro

Wine Cellar Cooling Unit

The wine cellar cooling unit is a self-contained CellarPro cooling unit with variable fan speeds that will deal with temperatures of up to 110 degrees. This one actually exhausts to the outdoors, so we’ll take a look at that in a moment.

The wine cellar cooling unit has an extended housing or extended cover, I should say, to protect the housing from the elements and it has a reasonable air filter as well, one that could be washed. This is the rear of the wine cellar cooling unit that I was telling you about.

It extends beyond the house a little bit, but more so than the last project that we looked at because of this added depth to protect the rear exhaust and the reusable aluminum filter that protects it from the elements. The drain line here simply drains off into the flower bed.

Residential Wine Cellar Dana point California