Custom Wine Cellar - Increase Your Home's Value
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.
Plan and construct a custom wine cellar mainly for your collection of wines, considering your existing space, finances, and the handiness of having complete access to your own superior wine. You can place it practically anywhere in your house. You may keep them in a vacant cabinet, corner of a room, in the pantry, beneath a stairwell, or in the attic. But some places, like basements, are more appropriate settings compared to 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.
Seal the cellar's entrance around its borders with climate stripping and insulation. This will help your cellar retain cold, moist air. In addition, for controlling its climate, the cellar will require refrigeration and humidity systems. You should also install electrical wiring for lighting the cellar room.
The next step is completing the wine cellar, in particular, installing custom racking. It is important for the racks to fit the wine cellar's dimensions as well as accomodating the various sizes and shapes of the bottles in your collection. Other things to consider in your design are lighting, countertops, crown moldings and baseboards complementary to the floor selections, doors and cabinets etc. No matter how you design the wine cellar of your home, once it is complete, you will enjoy it for many years.
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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