A glass of wine to cap an evening, a long lunch over wine at a sidewalk cafe, or opening a bottle of wine to celebrate one of life’s greatest moments: collecting wine may be one of the most rewarding hobbies to have.
It’s easy to see why people begin to collect wine, and it’s just as easy to understand why a wine collection–whether in its first bloom or something akin to an obsession–can begin to take over.
Whether you’ve just begun to collect wine or your collection has blown past its allotted storage space some time ago, keep reading for some creative ideas for dedicated wine storage in your home and raise a glass to your wine collection!
Any underused or awkward space could morph into dedicated wine shelving with a bit of ingenuity and maybe a professional touch if you’re not the home builder type. What do you currently store above your refrigerator? Is there a space next to the fridge that’s wide enough for even one bottle of wine? Imagine a pull-out pocket pantry of wine between two kitchen cabinets or moving everything you never use (that’s what happened to the blender!) from the cabinet over the refrigerator and building wine shelving instead.
Could you spare one lower cabinet in your kitchen or a drawer or two in your built-in sideboard in the dining room? By moving some things around and maybe donating an old stockpot or two, you could find the space to incorporate pull-out shelving or purpose-built drawers to hold wine bottles.
Even if you have an extensive wine storage area in the basement, it can be handy to keep a few bottles of wine near the action. Talk to a professional about smooth pull-out drawers or shelving that will efficiently keep wine at your fingertips.
Your pantry or basement bar might seem full – with every shelf holding serving dishes, barware, and pantry staples, but don’t neglect the spaces that are harder to get to. Add wine shelving on top of the upper cabinets in your bar or go up to the ceiling in your pantry. Fill in the space beneath the lower cabinets with wine shelving.
Add a library ladder on a rail to your bar set up to make reaching the upper shelves easy and unexpected.
As long as it looks good, wine storage can be incorporated into any room! Modify built-ins in the dining room or family room to hold wine bottles instead of books. Line the wall in the basement entertainment area with floating shelves to hold wine bottles against the wall instead of angled away if space is an issue.
Wine storage doesn’t have to mean climate control and a full build-out, but that sort of system can be easier to incorporate into an existing space than you might think. If you take your wine seriously and you want to keep your cabernet at the ideal temperature for drinking, consider working with a professional who specializes in wine storage to modify a space in your living room, under your stairs, or behind the bar.
It can be as space-saving as building a wall of glass against one of the walls or creating a stall with an attractive door where an underused closet used to be.
So… if you really have a lot of wine, why not turn that unfinished space in the basement into a wine cellar? A home wine cellar can be big on square footage and special features, or it can be a specialized space that meets your wine storage needs within the square footage you have available.
When you’re building a house or finishing or renovating a basement, you’ve got a perfect opportunity to incorporate a wine cellar during the process. The blank slate will allow you to explore your options and create a wine cellar that will make you happy and serve your needs into the future. Create your rustic Tuscan tasting room or a sleek walk-in cellar with the space.
The kids have moved out, and you’re renovating their basement video game lair, or you’ve moved into a new space, and the former owner’s craft room doesn’t fit your vibe. Reimagine and repurpose the area while you remodel. A theater room doesn’t have a place in your house if you don’t watch movies, so don’t just buy new furniture; transform it into wine storage.
Whether you’re transforming your basement to incorporate wine storage into your entertainment space, adding wine shelving to your pantry, or building the knockout wine cellar of your wildest dreams from scratch, the experts at Harkraft bring so much to the table. We’ve been designing and installing wine storage for decades, and no one does it better. Talk to us today about your wine storage ideas, and let’s get started together.
