My New DIY Wine Cellar

[skiboarder72]

So I've always had this dream of converting one of my spare bedrooms into a wine cellar guest bedroom. Well this past weekend I decided to cram the week long project of converting it into just three days (not recommended). I used a modified IKEA setup to build the racks. Went to lowes to get additional wood and screws.

Started the new year staining wine racks from 9am-4am

After staining for 20 hours straight I was finally done, not sure if I've ever been that tired in my life!

The room before... a sorry guest bedroom

All cleaned out

Finally sanded, stained, and ready to put together!

Starting off

Getting there

Finished up at about 2am

All put together!

The triple rack

The double rack

The single rack

All filled... at least as much as I can for now (about 180 bottles)

All the white wines/meads/roses I've made

Red wine rack... yea I need to get going on it

All in all it can hold roughly 1500 bottles.

It will take me many years to totally fill it, but until then I'll have an awesome place to visit to keep me motivated. For heating/cooling/humidity I've totally shut to the room off from the central HVAC and have a radiator heater and humidifier in the room. In the summer I'll put in an A/C unit as well. My goal is to keep it around 62° +/-2° and the humidity around 40-50%. I need to put some insulation up over the one window in the room. I have blinds over it now to keep the light out for the time being.

I eventually want to put a guest bed in the middle of the room. I think this would make a cool/unique guest bedroom. Surrounded by floor to ceiling wine racks. The project in all ended up costing only about $800 and about 40 hours of time.

 

[Tom]

Looking GOOD !

 

[Goodfella]

Very nice!!!

Well done.... Keep up the good work

 

[Runningwolf]

Looking pretty cool. I would be more concerned at keeping the temperature constant rather than spending the money to keep it cool.

 

[ibglowin]

Very nice!

 

[buffaloricky]

Looks awesome. Nice job.

 

[AlFulchino]

i have seen a lot of home made racks...yours are TOP notch...good job

i see one issue...you say you plan on putting a bed back in there for a guest....now you have a new problem....inventory control

 

[sly22guy]

Looks nice! Do you have some more info on what you got from ikea? Or a link would be cool.

 

[wvbrewer]

Awsome. It would be cool to sleep in there.

 

[skiboarder72]

Thanks for the comments everyone!

i have seen a lot of home made racks...yours are TOP notch...good job

i see one issue...you say you plan on putting a bed back in there for a guest....now you have a new problem....inventory control

Haha very true... I'm not sure if I'll notice if a few bottles are missing though

Looks nice! Do you have some more info on what you got from ikea? Or a link would be cool.

I bought these shelves from Ikea: http://goo.gl/Nt1eJ and then made the uprights for them to mount into, also got some torsion bars for extra rigidity

 

[ibglowin]

Those are nice racks for the price. Too bad the closest IKEA is like 500 miles away from me..........

 

[mxsteve625]

They are nice racks.

Like you said, You need to get busy.

 

[skiboarder72]

quick : the room is stay pretty constant, I've check it during several times of the day and its always been 63° ± 1°

Have to switchout the water on the humidifier almost daily though, keeping the room at 50% or so takes a bit of water!

 

[Runningwolf]

quick : the room is stay pretty constant, I've check it during several times of the day and its always been 63° ± 1°

Have to switchout the water on the humidifier almost daily though, keeping the room at 50% or so takes a bit of water!

Check your windows. Are the sweating? It's possible to add too much moisture and do damage to the wood in the room. I think @ 50% you're ok though.

 

[JordanPond]

I'll need to show this to my wife. She's worried that I'm going to take over our son's room when he moves out in April and we won't have a guest room, only wine storage. Your project (most excellent) should provide a vision.

 

[skiboarder72]

Check your windows. Are the sweating? It's possible to add too much moisture and do damage to the wood in the room. I think @ 50% you're ok though.

There is some condensation on the inside of the windows in the morning when its really cold out. I have it turned down to about 40% now. I think this is normal.

 

[Lurker]

I WOULD LIKE TO BE A GUEST IN THERE. VERY, VERY NEAT.

 

[grapeman]

The occupant of that room would be sure to sleep well at night though, but might be grumpy in the morning........

Great racks!

 

[Wade E]

Great job!!!!!! Looks like you better start doing some serious fermenting!

 

[woodsxdragon]

you sir... are my hero. that is beautiful.