With so many quality wine racking options, the ability to build your own wine cellar using custom racking kits has never been easier. From unfinished, Rustic Pine Wine Racks and Traditional Redwood Wine Racks, to stylish and contemporary VintageView Wine Racks that allow you to see your bottles’ labels clearly when stored, you’re bound to find a wine racking kit perfect for your cellar’s shape and personality. Even if you only construct one part of your cellar at a time, adding to it in bits and pieces in subsequent months, you can easily order additional kits of your selected design, enabling you to upgrade your cellar without fear of incompatibility. With the surplus of affordable, quality, easy-to-assemble wine racks and wine rack kits available, it’s easy to begin constructing your own wine cellar, today! In addition to its visual allure, a good wine cellar will help preserve your precious bottles, keeping them out of harm’s way (sunlight, accidental knock-overs, dry air, etc.) If you’ve invested a bit in your wine collection, investing just a little more in proper protection and preservation is a smart idea that will look good, too!
Have you built your own cellar using any of these products? Have any of our posts inspired you to do so? If the answer is “yes”, we’d love to hear from you and, possibly, showcase your project on our site! (Simply send us an e-mail or drop a comment here.) Happy racking!
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Have you seen The Dilemma, starring Vince Vaughn? Did you notice the wine racks? Check it out:
Photo credit Universal Pictures
The wine racks in The Dilemma are Vintage View sideways hanging wine racks, some of our absolute favorite wine racks. Their strength, ease of installation and attractive appearance have made them a superior choice for wine collectors everywhere–and clearly they caught the eye of The Dilemma’s set designers as well.
Apartment Therapy, the trendy website for design, technology, cooking, and other fun stuff, has just released its list of the best wine racks of the year. One favorite? VintageView wine racks. Good choice, Apartment Therapy–they’re one of our favorites too!
VintageView wine racks use a unique design that allows you to store bottles label-forward rather than cork-forward, so that you can find out what’s in the bottle without disturbing the contents. Ingenious!
VintageView racks are meant to be customized. You can purchase a single rack perfect for the corner of your studio apartment, or you can choose to outfit your entire wine cellar with floor-to-ceiling racks. Racks come in single, double, or even triple-deep sizes, and magnum-sized racks are available too. Whew! With so many choices, it’s not wonder that VintageView racks are a designer’s dream.
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Creating the “Modern” Wine Cellar:
You’ve finally bought that house of your dreams and that 200 bottle Eurocave just can’t satisfy your desire to grow that wine collection. Where are you going to build your personal wine cellar? What about the 7 ft by 30 inch deep nook in your dining room? Sure, we must consider how to cool the environment and prepare the room properly, but let’s assume it will work out. It’s time to consider the décor of the home, how many bottles to store, the amount of space available and how to easily access the wine. These factors are all tools to help determine what type of racking to use.
Wine consumption and collection has increased exponentially over the past 10 years. To meet the market demands and the American consumer demands for quality and choice, the wine racking market has been exploding with new and exciting products. Classic redwood wine racks, old world terra cotta clay wine tiles, new “green” recycled wine barrel racks and modern metal Vintage View racks are just the tip of the iceberg.
In this particular case, the home was modern/contemporary and the desired cellar capacity was about 400 bottles. I couldn’t think of a better idea than to use Vintage View racking. Using a small nook in the dining room (that also has a small window area into the kitchen), we developed a plan using sliding glass doors for access, floor to ceiling mounts and Vintage View racking. The end result was a 432 bottle capacity wine cellar with a gallery wall of wine label artwork viewable from the dinning room table. Outside of the beautiful results, this project met another important consideration: budget. In this design, the wine racks and the installation came in under $3,000 (this does not include doors, room preparation or the wine cooling system). Now there is money left over to help fill the space with wine bottles.
