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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

 

 

 

 

Completed Residential Wine Cellar California