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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!

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 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

Coastal Offers the Best Custom Wine Cellar Doors

At Coastal Custom Wine Cellars, each wine cellar project is challenging. There are many components that must be installed properly and factors to consider from the design phase to the completion of your wine cellar. One of these is the wine cellar door which plays a very important role in proper wine storage.

How Your Wine Cellar Door Must be Constructed

Wine cellar doors must be constructed in such a way that they are able to perform their function in preventing warm air from the outside and the cooler air inside the wine cellar from mixing. Thus, proper insulation and sealing of the entryway to your wine’s resting place must be given importance.

How is a wine cellar door constructed so that it is appropriately sealed? To ensure that no air escapes out of your wine cellar, the door must be weather-stripped and attached with sweep and threshold or automatic bottoms. Wine cellar door manufacturers use the right size of door jam to ensure effective sealing.

Benefits of Proper Wine Cellar Insulation

A wine cellar that is well insulated will keep wine storage temperature and humidity levels stable, allowing wines to reach proper maturation and release their most desirable flavors and aromas before they are served and enjoyed with family or friends. Without proper sealing, your wine collection will go to waste.

This also lowers energy consumption since your wine cellar cooling unit will not run continually when the door is tightly sealed.

Custom Wine Cellar Doors by Coastal Custom Wine Cellars

When choosing a wine cellar door manufacturer, Coastal Custom Wine Cellars is the company you can count on. They construct wine cellar doors using LVL (Laminated Veneer Lumber) technology. This process results in wine cellar doors that are resistant to shrinkage and warping.

In addition to durable doors, Coastal’s wide array of wine cellar doors can be customized to meet your personal style. For the material, you can choose from wood, glass, wrought iron, or a combination of these. You can also request your personal choice of theme which you want to be incorporated on the door.

Custom Wine Cellar Doors by Coastal

Before choosing your door, make sure to first determine the look that you desire for your wine cellar. Whether you want a traditional, contemporary, or vintage look, it’s all up to you. Click here to view wine cellar door options.

Coastal Custom Wine Cellars will listen to every detail of your wine cellar needs. They are one of the best California wine cellar designers and manufacturers who have completed remarkable projects. They also offer stylish wine racks, efficient wine refrigeration systems, and unique wine cellar flooring.

Wine Cellars by Coastal – a Wine Cellar Expert

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