Fabulous Design for a Home Wine Cellar and Tasting Room in California

Fabulous Design for a Home Wine Cellar and Tasting Room in California

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In Anaheim Hills, California, a homeowner wanted to transform a large basement playroom into a custom wine cellar and tasting room with a cigar humidor. Coastal Custom Wine Cellars, one of our dealers, created a stunning design that would satisfy their client’s storage needs. See the beautiful features of the wine room. 

Fantastic Transformation of a Playroom into a Home Wine Cellar in California

Anaheim Hills California Wine Cellar Design

Converting a room into a functional and elegant wine storage area requires extensive knowledge and experience. Wine must be stored in a climate-controlled wine cellar to mature properly before it is consumed. Additionally, one’s collection must also be displayed impressively to enhance the beauty and increase the value of your home.

Coastal Custom Wine Cellars, one of our dealers, has recently designed and installed a custom wine cellar in a California home. The project started on the 23rd of July last year.

They had to convert a room, which used to be a large playroom for their children, into a custom wine cellar that would be a safe and stylish haven for the owner’s collection. They also wanted a tasting area and a cigar humidor added to the wine room.

Wooden wine racks manufactured by IronWine Cellars were used, combined with metal racking by Vintage View. This helped Coastal Custom Wine Cellars meet the aesthetic requirements of the client.

Custom Wine Rack Design for a Wine Enthusiast

IronWine Cellars has been manufacturing wine racks that can make any space the perfect place to store your collection. We have been a partner of Coastal Custom Wine Cellars in many of their projects in California.

They start each project with a careful assessment of the client’s requirements. Then, they create 3-dimensional drawings for free, which show the different views and elevations. Once the owner approves the drawings, the construction begins.

In this wine cellar installation, the racking design consists of various racking configurations. Coastal Custom Wine Cellars also incorporated metal wine racks to satisfy the client’s desire to achieve a sleek appeal.

3D Design California Home Wine Cellar Project

Wine Displays on the Back Wall

Home Wine and Cigar Humidor Cellar Room Construction Design Ideas California

Coastal Custom Wine Cellars installed 27 inch-deep custom wine racks made of wood. In this wall, an open area was created to hide the evaporator that was used to cool the playroom.  It includes a 42-inch stemware rack intended for storing wine glasses upside down.

A high reveal display row and individual wine racks can be found on both sides of the open area. There is a grill cover at the top right section, which conceals the cooling unit.

A tabletop, which lines the entire back wall, serves as space for decanting and tasting wine. Below it is double-deep racking, which stores one bottle in front of another in each slot. Two wood case storage bins were added at the left and right bottom racking. Since the racking is double deep, the owner can store up to four cases on each side.

The rightmost and leftmost storage units installed on the back wall are single vertical column wine racks. They have larger openings for storing 1.5-liter bottles.

Cigar Humidor Cabinet

California Home Wine Cellar Cigar Humidor

The client requested to incorporate a storage area for his cigars and cigarettes within the racking, so Coastal Custom Wine Cellars created a cigar humidor below the center tabletop in the back wall. It is a 2-door double-deep cabinet.

It was designed to create an environment that is more than 58 degrees Fahrenheit than the wine cellar. To seal the humidor, weather stripping was added around the cabinet doors.

The left side of the humidor is lined with Spanish Cedar, a wood species that can help create the ideal temperature and humidity for cigars. There are four shelves in the top section, which are tilted slightly to have a good view of the client’s cigar boxes. The first shelf was intended for storing the client’s cigars individually.

The standard cabinet at the right provides the owner additional space for wine glasses, decanters, and other accessories.

Left Wall Wine Rack Design

The left wall, as you enter this appealing California wine cellar, starts with a quarter round display rack. This unit is an ideal place for showcasing some of the owner’s favorite bottles and wine accessories, such as decanters and bar tools.

Diamond bins were installed at the bottom section. This bottle orientation allows for better organization of wines, grouping them according to type or varietal. Any size bottle can fit each quadrant. The top racking is another wide-open area.

Metal Wine Racks – Satisfying the Client’s Desire for a Contemporary Home Wine Cellar

Mixing wood and metal wine racks helped Coastal Custom Wine Cellars achieve a modern style California wine cellar. They installed metal wine racks from Vintage View, in front of the glass wall, in an open area on the left wall, and on the far right wall of the room.

These floor-to-ceiling metal wine racks display the bottles horizontally with labels facing out. The client can store up to 852 wines in the metal racking installed in the three walls. For a more visual appeal, the metal wine racks were applied with a Brushed Nickel finish.

Seamless Glass Wine Cellar Door and Wall

Contemporary California Residential Wine Cellar

The door is one of the most important considerations when building California home wine cellars. It must be properly sealed by a professional to ensure that wine can preserve its complex characteristics.

A climate-controlled wine room must have an entryway equipped with weather stripping and other sealing components like the automatic door bottom.

In this project, Coastal Custom Wine Cellars installed a frameless glass door and wall. It is impossible to create a perfect seal around this type of door except when it is installed properly in low humidity regions of the country.

To prevent unstable wine storage conditions from ruining the owner’s wines, tempered glass panels were used.

One advantage of a glass door and wall is that it provides a good view of the collector’s wine display.

Ductless Split Wine Cooling System

Coastal Custom Wine Cellars needed to perform a heat load calculation because the wine cellar was to be enclosed in glass. This process analyzes the British Thermal Unit (BTU) requirement of the room.

An 8000S ductless split wine cooling unit from CellarPro was used to cool the cellar. The wall-mounted evaporator was placed within the racking in the back wall, concealed in a lattice wooden grill cover. The condenser was placed outdoors and is protected by an exterior housing.

Build Your Dream Wine Cellar

If you have an unused space at home, Coastal Custom Wine Cellars can help you transform it into a wine storage space. They have built unique and functional custom wine cellars in California, New Jersey, and Maryland. Contact them today at +1 (949) 355-4376.

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