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Wine Cellar Design – How To Get Started & Get a Great Design
Custom Wine Cellar Designs: How We Work With Your Ideas
All our custom wine cellar designs start with a concept drawing. We then develop that to a detailed 3D drawing and sketch out different perspectives of your design.
Whether you would like to make use of our 6′ or 7′ or our 8′ series kit wine racks, modular wine racks or prefer a totally unique personalized design creating completely custom wine racks, our team of designers will work hand in hand with you to create a distinctive design that will impress.
Our designer’s goal will be to create for you a design set that will allow you to completely visualize your custom wine cellar design, whilst at the same time meet your wine storage, management and display preferences.
The following steps should help you better understand the process and help you gather the preliminary information we will need to get the design process started.
Best of all, there are no consultation or design fees or obligations. It’s completely FREE.
Ready to go now? Simply complete this simple wine cellar design form and we will contact you within 24 hours. Don’t want to wait for that? Just go ahead and call us +1 (949) 200-8134.
Residential Wine Cellar Design Example New York 3D
Wall & Ceiling Heights – Wine Cellar Design
Every home is unique, that’s why no custom home wine cellars are exactly the same. We always want our wine cellars to look their best, and to achieve this, we put a lot of hard work even during the planning stage.
Conceptualizing Custom Wine Cellar Designs
Your first step should be to draw a simple sketch of the room or space you plan to convert. It doesn’t have to be a beautiful or professional work of art, just a straight forward line drawing with its dimensions. Draw it as an overhead view of the wine cellar and label your walls clearly, A, B, C, D, E, etc. Note your doorways and don’t forget to show the direction that the door actually opens.
All wine cellar design ideas always start with a rough sketch. We know a lot of ideas may come to mind, especially if we’re tapping into different design inspirations and we’d like to capture your imagination as much as possible. A rough sketch will give us an idea of what you initially foresee in your wine room or custom wine closet. Typically, rough sketches or concept drawings will illustrate the general layout of the room. This includes where you want the shelves to be, where you want the air conditioning to be, where you want the decanting table to be, where you want the door to be, and many more.
If you’ve gathered some specific details about what you want included in your wine cellar like the color of the racks, the shape of the racks, the material to be used in the door, etc., don’t forget to scribble in some notes so we can definitely incorporate them into the 3D drawings and design plans. Throughout the entire process, we are a very collaborative team, so we’ll also help you brainstorm ideas and solutions for your preferences.
Measuring the Actual Space for your Design
Now here is an important step and where problems can arise later if it is not done correctly. For each wall, measure the width at the bottom of the wall, also checking it at the center and at the top. Note the smallest measurement in your sketch.
We need the shortest of these three measurements. Most walls are not as perfectly square as you might think, taking this step will therefore help to make sure that your racking will fit properly without the need for tricky adjustments when being installed.
Also carefully measure the ceiling height in each corner of the room. Take the time to check the height at the center of all of the walls. Add these maximum and minimum measurements to your sketch. Note the precise locations of any items such as electrical outlets, lighting switches, overhead or support beams, plumbing fixtures or piping, soffits, electrical or plumbing access panels and of course, air vents.
Generally, your wine racking should be 4-6″ away from any existing light switches, thermostats and or door casings. If there is anything you are unsure of simply note it in your sketch to be reviewed with your wine cellar designer later.
Wine Cellar Design Consultation
Now the fun begins! Once we have your initial sketch and the dimensions, we need to take a few minutes to discuss with you how you wish to store, manage and display your wine collection.
Our wine cellar designers will talk to you to learn all about what you want your wine cellar to look like, how you want it to function and to and address any challenges or limitations before the design is created. For example there may be unique constraints such as odd shaped rooms, mechanical equipment to work around or be concealed or some there may be special way you would like your room to function.
It’s important that we know and identify what you want in your cellar. Constructing a wine cellar is a big and expensive project and we’d like to help you make the right decisions so you won’t have to go back and forth. You might be wondering what’s there to further identify when the purpose of a wine cellar is to have a climate-controlled storage for your wine collection. Well, wine cellars don’t just store and preserve wines; they can also stand as a showpiece in your home. Basically, wine collectors, homeowners, and business owners have different priorities.
We’ve worked with clients who want to maximize the storage capacity of their available space, while we’ve also had clients who just want to have a wine cellar, put in a few dozen bottles for the sake of display. Furthermore, we’ve had clients who want their wine cellars to serve as storage spaces for their cigar collection (which also require specific conditions). All these and more will serve as bases for our final wine cellar design and plan.
This kind of meeting is usually through a simple phone call that typically takes about 15-30 minutes of your time.
Once we have a good understanding of your plans and any location specific challenges or limitations we will have everything we need to develop a 3D Wine Cellar Design Package. Your package will include a Plan View, Elevations and several 3D views that are designed to allow you to visualize the finished product in place.
Included with the drawings will be a highly competitive cost proposal.
The Wine Cellar Design Itself – What You Get
You will receive a high quality 3-D drawing package AND a video tour of your personal design. See an example here Custom Wine Cellars California.
We have learned that this process and attention to detail both set us apart and enables our clients to quickly understand all aspects of their design. Our customers tell us that our high quality rendering and video tour package of what your wine cellar will look like is much more helpful than the typical flat 2 dimensional line drawing traditionally provided.
Best of all, it’s FREE!
In addition, the wine cellar designer you talk to will be an experienced professional. Coastal custom wine cellars, as master wine cellar builders, have a team of custom wine cellar designers each of which have in excess of 10 years’ experience designing beautiful wine cellars.
Need inspiration? Visit our wine cellar gallery or view our client wine cellar design project stories such as this custom wine cellars Los Angeles to get a feel for the quality and range of our work. Who knows, the next project story could be yours!
Review of Your Custom Wine Cellar Designs
Once you have received your personal custom wine cellar design, your wine cellar consultant will call you to review the details of the design. The goal of the call is to make sure you understand the various features of your wine cellar design whilst taking the time to answer any specific questions you may have.
If, as is often the case, you have had some additional design ideas, we will create up to two revisions of the design based on your input also completely free of charge.
Remember, we also provide wine cellar cooling systems, specially engineered custom wine cellar doors, Napa Valley oak barrel wine cellar flooring, specialist wine cellar lighting and many other specialist products designed to make your wine cellar unique and efficient.
Custom Wine Cellar Design – Build, Deposit & Verification, Project Start
You understand and love your design and are ready to go. You can be sure we will not manufacture any design or revised design without your written approval. Your signature on the appropriate drawings ensures we create the correct masterpiece. As soon as we have received an initial build deposit and a formal project sign-off from you, your custom wine cellar will go straight into production!
Manufacturing – Wine Cellar Builders
The production of your custom wine cellar components, such as your custom wine racks and any related products such as cooling systems, wine cellar doors and lighting will be project managed. The wine racking for example will be manufactured in our 50,000 square foot facility to the highest standards. We use only architectural grade materials. All of our Redwood comes from Northern California and is from sustainable forests, managed by the U.S Forestry Service.
Built into our manufacturing processes is a quality control inspection that ensures only the highest quality products get shipped. Each part of your wine cellar is carefully packed and shipped directly to you.
We only work with the industry’s most established suppliers, who have proven years of experiences, for our materials. Over the years, we’ve learned to identify what sets premium materials apart from subpar materials, and we always ensure to get the best ones for our clients. We build our wine cellars with the thought that they should last for 10 – 20 years or more, so we also offer periodic maintenance services to ensure everything in your cellar is in excellent condition.
Wine Cellar Builders – The Installation
We have our own network of experienced wine cellar builders who can handle all of the necessary steps towards completing your custom wine cellar, soup to nuts! All are licensed, bonded and insured professionals.
Our wine cellar racks are designed for easy installation, some of the components will actually arrive fully assembled. If you are a handy person it is totally possible for you to install the racking yourself. Alternatively you may wish to contact your local finish carpenter, installer or contractor and have them complete the project for you.
Love Your Wine Cellar
A wine cellar is a thing of beauty and an enhancement to any home or business. It’s a unique feature than can provide a place to develop your passion for wine as well as to entertain friends and colleagues.
We love your wine cellar too. We take great pride in the quality of our products and back them up with a lifetime warrantee. All of our custom wine racks and modular wine racks are warranted to be completely free of any defects in both workmanship and materials for as long as you own the wine cellar. If at any point you have a problem with the racking don’t hesitate to call us immediately.
Once your custom wine cellar designs have been completely brought from the paper to your actual space, don’t forget to send us some photographs! As you will notice from our client story feature pages we love to create a detailed story and show off our client designs. We would love to show off your wine cellar in our online photo gallery and or write up a full feature page.
See this short video of one of our clients projects Wine Cellar Builders California Custom Wine Cellars the Tour.
So don’t forget to take lots of photographs both before and after as well as of your home and location scenes. We will never post any content however without your express permission. Most of our clients are pleased and proud to show off their latest creation, we think you will be too!
Visit our gallery to see more of our finished custom wine cellar designs and call us at +1 (949) 200 – 8134 whenever you’re ready to talk about plans!
