Wine Barrel Flooring: What are its Advantages and Stylish Options?

Custom-Wine Cellar with Barrel Flooring

Coastal Custom Wine Cellars offers wine barrel flooring to add aesthetic value to your wine room. Made from reclaimed oak barrels, this type of flooring is eco-friendly and allows wine collectors to create a vintage and luxurious feel in their wine cellar. 

Why Coastal Custom Wine Cellars Recommend Wine Barrel Flooring for Your Home Wine Cellar

Wine cellar flooring is an essential aspect of the overall look and feel of your wine cellar interior.  It adds character and charm to your storage space.  Flooring for wine cellars may come from various sources.

The use of carpets as floor covering is highly discouraged because the climate-controlled conditions of a wine cellar can contribute to mold formation in carpet fibers. One important thing to keep in mind when choosing wine cellar flooring is its weight load capacity.  It should be sturdy enough to handle the combined weight of the wine collection, racking systems, and cabinetry.  The flooring material should also be resistant to rot and decay.

Flooring for wine cellars can complement the design and enhance the aesthetic quality of your wine storage room.  However, if you want to give your wine cellar an extraordinary personality, then reclaimed wine barrel flooring is an excellent flooring option.

One of the advantages of using reclaimed wine barrel flooring is the one-of-a-kind appearance that it provides your wine storage room.  Your wine cellar flooring stands out from the rest because no two planks are exactly the same.  This piece can also be used to build matching countertops for a more elegant and custom look.

Other types of wine cellar flooring are wood, stone, cork, and tile.  Wood is a durable material that can last for a long time when cared for properly.  It is naturally beautiful and can complement any décor.  Stone has an enduring quality, and it is not prone to staining.  Popular types of stone flooring are marble, slate, and granite.

Cork is another excellent flooring option because of its insusceptibility to mold and termite infestation.  It has insulating and anti-allergenic properties.  Cork flooring is designed to help reduce noise and vibration, which makes it suitable for wine cellar use.  Tile flooring comes in a wide array of styles and patterns that can suit any design scheme.  It provides ease of installation and maintenance.

What You Must Know About Wine Barrel Flooring

Wine Barrel Flooring Styles by Coastal Custom Wine Cellars

Wine barrels have been long used to ferment and age the wine. This wine storage method imparts some hints of vanilla, caramel, or spice to the wine. The oak barrels enhance the aroma and flavor of the wines stored in them.

Wine barrel flooring comes from reclaimed oak barrels.  A typical oak wine barrel has a lifespan of five to seven years.  Oak barrels are usually discarded in landfills or sold as firewood once they’ve served their purpose.

However, sustainability enthusiasts found creative and innovative uses for old wine barrels.  Using it as a flooring material is a perfect example. Recycled wine barrels are eco-friendly materials because all of the parts are utilized.

Cooperage Wine Barrel Flooring

Stave Wine Barrel Flooring in Newport Coast Beach Home Wine Cellar

Cooperage features the insignias and markings of a particular winery.  These characteristics are what give wine barrel flooring its distinctive look.  The contents of the wine barrels are indicated through the stamps and markings.

Infusion Style Wine Barrel Flooring

Infusion is crafted from the inside of the wine barrels.  Since it is the part that comes in contact with the wine, it is naturally stained to form different hues from red to golden brown.

Stave Wine Barrel Flooring

The stave is the outer part of the wine barrels.  It consists of eight oak strips held in place by metal hoops.  When these hoops are removed, it gives the wooden staves their unique striations.

Home Wine Cellar Projects with Wine Barrel Flooring

Coastal Custom Wine Cellars has created stellar designs for residential wine rooms. We always recommend wine barrel flooring because of the aesthetic and functional benefits it offers.

Newport Coast Beach California Transitional Style Home Wine Cellar

In one of our home wine cellar projects in Newport Coast Beach, California, we used Stave flooring from reclaimed Napa Valley oak wine barrels. The flooring complements the wood wine racks, stonework, and seamless glass doors, creating a rustic appearance in the home wine cellar.

Boston Massachusetts Home Wine Cellar

Cooperage Wine Barrel Flooring in Boston Home Wine Cellar

In our wine room installation project in Boston, Massachusetts, we have created an elegant wine display and storage area for the homeowners’ prized wine collection. Guests have to enter a large tasting room before going inside the wine cellar itself.

We customized the flooring using reclaimed Oak wine barrels from Fontenay. We installed the Cooperage flooring in both the wine cellar and the tasting room. The Cooperage stamps that can be seen on the wood planks add uniqueness to this beautiful home wine cellar.

Coto de Caza Falcon Ridge Wine Cellar Flooring Installation

We transformed a small space under the stairwell into a lovely home wine cellar with an eco-friendly feature. In this project, we installed our Cooperage Series Oak wine barrel flooring. The subtle color variations add character to the flooring.

Check out these photos showing various wine cellar flooring designs: http://pinterest.com/winecellarsca/wine-cellar-flooring/

Make Your Home Wine Cellar Eco-Friendly and Unique with Wine Barrel Flooring

Add a vintage and eco-friendly touch to your home wine cellar. Our wine barrel flooring is available in Stave, Cooperage, and Infusion styles. Let us know your needs so we can make your flooring stand out.  If you need help, please call us at +1 (949) 200-8134.

Article by written Jerry Wilson, who has been designing and building custom wine cellars for both residential and commercial projects for over 10 years .