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Basement Wine Cellar with Traditional Wood Wine Racks

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Beautiful Basement Wine Cellar in Vancouver

A client decided to add a distinctive feature to his newly purchased residential property in Vancouver. He contacted Blue Grouse Wine Cellars to create a basement wine cellar for his growing wine collection. The Blue Grouse team incorporated traditional features with wood wine racks. Continue reading on to learn more about the impressive features of this wine room.

Vancouver Basement Wine Cellar Design and Construction

A wine enthusiast decided to create a basement wine cellar in their new home. His collection was growing, so he thought it was an excellent idea to invest in a climate-controlled wine room designed to store wines correctly and display them beautifully.

He sought the help of Blue Grouse Wine Cellars, one of the most reliable builders in Canada. With many years in the wine cellar construction industry, the team has proven their expertise and creativity in building eye-catching custom wine cellars.

Before creating a design proposal, they conducted an assessment to gather important information that would affect the overall functionality and appeal of the wine room. They conducted an on-site visit to check if the basement was a good location for a wine cellar build-out. They also measured the area to be utilized for the project and discussed all of the client’s requirements.

Designing the Vancouver Basement Wine Cellar

The Back Wall of the Traditional Wine Cellar Built in a Basement of a Vancouver Home

After a careful assessment of the owner’s needs, Blue Grouse Wine Cellars started creating 3-dimensional images. These drawings consist of the different wine room elevations, bottle capacities, room dimensions, racking styles, and door design.

The goal was to create a design that would fit 1,200 bottles. Since the client had bottles of various sizes, we tailored the wine storage system to accommodate standard and non-standard bottles. The Blue Grouse team had to build a wall in front to fully enclose the space. The wall panels are made of beeswax walnut wood, the same material used for the racking.

The owner wanted a traditional wine cellar design with wooden wine racks. Different bottle configurations were combined to create a unique wine display and maximize the storage capacity of the wine room. One of the features of this basement wine cellar is the lit bulkhead that lines the top of the wine racks.

Back Wall: the Focal Point of the Basement Wine Cellar

The back wall is the focal point of the Vancouver basement wine cellar. It consists of a peninsula wine rack intended to display the bottles in cascading manner and add character to the residential wine room. This section has bottle openings for storing large-format bottles horizontally. There is a wooden louvered grill cover at the top of it to conceal the evaporator of the wine cooling unit. The wine room looks more elegant without any visible equipment.

Blue Grouse Wine Cellars also incorporated individual wine racks and high-reveal display rows on both sides of the waterfall racking. The display rows pitch the bottles at an angle to keep the cork moist. Adding a lighting system above them highlights the bottles beautifully.

Left and Right Walls

Wooden Wine Racks on the Sidewalls of the Basement Home Wine Cellar in Vancouver

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Praise-Worthy Traditional Wine Cellar in a Basement

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Impressive Traditional Home Wine Cellar in Vancouver

Another masterpiece was completed by Blue Grouse Wine Cellars for a wine collector in Vancouver. They transformed a basement into a traditional wine cellar with elegant features. Using wood wine racks, they created a design that will envy anyone who enters the wine room. Learn more about this exceptional project.

Wow-Worthy Traditional Wine Cellar in Vancouver

Blue Grouse Wine Cellars is a top-notch designer and builder of wine rooms. They are one of our partners in wine cellar construction. In one of their recent projects, the client contacted them because he wanted to build a traditional wine cellar in the basement of his new house. He was staying in a condominium where he was storing his win collection in cabinets. He realized he needed a bigger wine storage space for his growing collection, so he decided to convert his basement into a functional wine cellar.

As part of the assessment stage, the Blue Grouse team scheduled an onsite visit to check the location and confirm if the basement was an ideal place to build a refrigerated wine cellar. During the visit, they determined the requirements of the homeowner.

3-Dimensional Design for a Traditional Home Wine Cellar in Vancouver

With keen attention to detail, Blue Grouse Wine Cellars incorporated features into the design, reflecting the client’s aesthetic and functional needs. The 3D rendering helped the client visualize the wine room he wanted to add to his home.

The design package included CAD images showing the measurement of the room, dimensions and styles of the wine racks, and bottle capacities. The layout of the racking was well detailed so he could have a better understanding of how he could organize his prized collection using our design proposal.

Combining Wine Rack Styles to Create an Attractive Wine Display While maximizing Storage Capacity

Elegant Traditional Home Wine Cellar in Vancouver with Wood Wine Racks and Dramatic Lighting

In this project, the goal was to install a wine storage system that could accommodate 1,200 wine bottles. With their creativity and expertise, Blue Grouse Wine Cellars used various racking systems to achieve the target capacity without compromising the aesthetic appeal of the wine room.

The wine racks occupy the three walls of this traditional wine cellar in Vancouver. The Blue Grouse team included diamond bin loose bottle storage at the bottom section of the walls. They also added a high reveal display row on each wall. These display rows are divided into sections intended to pitch the bottles at an angle to keep the corks moist. There is a bulkhead that was designed to store more bottles horizontally.

Most of the wine racks at the top section consist of bottle openings for storing the bottles individually with the cap facing out. There are label view shelves at the end of the racking on the right wall. They also included a rectangular bin on the right wall to provide a space for highlighting a few bottles.

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Inspiring Traditional Home Wine Cellar in Vancouver

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Impressive Traditional Home Wine Cellar in Vancouver

We will give you a tour of an inspiring project completed by Blue Grouse Wine Cellars, one of our partners in wine room construction. This creative team built a stylish home wine cellar in Vancouver with elegant features, including wood wine racks, LED lighting, glass door, and flooring.

Traditional Home Wine Cellar in Vancouver Built by Blue Grouse Wine Cellars

Blue Grouse Wine Cellars is known for its expertise and passion for building wine rooms. For many years, their team has transformed spaces into eye-catching wine storage and display areas. We have been working with them for many years, providing a worry-free experience to each client.

In one of their recent projects, they designed a beautiful home wine cellar in Vancouver. The homeowners wanted a traditional design using wood wine racks. The expert builders came up with a wine storage design for 420 bottles, and the end product was impressive!

The room measures 119” W x 43” D x 102” H, is located on the main floor beside the bar area adjacent to the stairs. A design was created based on the assessment conducted by Blue Grouse Wine Cellars.

Wine Rack Features

Blue Grouse Wine Cellars installed custom wine racks so the client could incorporate features they desire for their wine room. The racking design and material play a significant role in achieving the overall appeal of the wine cellar.

Using Oak for the Racking Material

In this traditional home wine cellar project in Vancouver, the Blue Grouse team installed wood wine racks made from Oak. Wood is known for its timeless appeal and ability to create a warm ambiance and classic touch to wine cellars. It can also blend well with any existing décor. The client’s home has a modern design, but they wanted to have a traditional wine cellar. Wood wine racks look perfect!

Oak is a durable and versatile hardwood known for its unique grain patterns and ability to take stains well. It can withstand high humid conditions in refrigerated wine cellars and is highly resistant to mold and mildew. Blue Grouse Wine Cellars applied the wine racks with a dark brown custom finish to achieve a richer look.

Racking Styles

Wine Rack Design Wood Wine Racks Designed for a Traditional Home Wine Cellar

Wine Rack Design wood wine racks Traditional Home Wine Cellar

When designing the wine racks, it is vital to consider the sizes of the bottles intended to be stored in the wine room. In this traditional home wine cellar in Vancouver, Blue Grouse Wine Cellars combined various racking styles to create an exceptional wine display.

Elevation A

Elevation A is the back wall or the wall across the doors. It consists of the longest racking in the wine cellar. Blue Grouse Wine Cellars included individual wine racks on the left and right sections of the wall and angled display rows at the middle of the racking. Below the display rows are diamond wine racks.

They also added a floor-to-ceiling single-deep horizontal display rack at the center of the wall, flanked by quarter-round display shelves. These shelves are intended for displaying stemware, decanters, and other wine accessories and accouterments.

Elevation B

Elevation refers to the right wall of the wine cellar. It consists of individual wine racks at the top section, an angled display row in the middle, and wood case storage bins (with adjustable selves) at the bottom.

Wine Cellar Lighting System, Door, Wall, and Flooring

Installing the proper wine cellar lighting system will illuminate your wine cellar and wine collection effectively. Blue Grouse Wine Cellars installed an LD lighting system above the display rows. The pot lights on the ceiling were installed by our partner in this project.

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Attractive and Climate-Controlled Vancouver Residential Wine Cellars Built by an Expert

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Residential Wine Cellars Vancouver

Nowadays, there are still many homeowners who don’t know the importance of a climate-controlled environment in proper wine aging. Others think that keeping their wines in a refrigerator, cabinet, or boxes will do no harm to their collection. If you’re a serious collector, investing in a wine room is a must. Blue Grouse Wine Cellars has designed and installed efficient residential wine cellars in Vancouver, Canada.

The Function of Vancouver Residential Wine Cellars in Proper Wine Storage

Wine loses its quality when stored in poor conditions. Cabinets, cardboard boxes, and kitchen refrigerators cannot provide the optimal conditions needed by wine for proper aging. Thus, it is important that you invest in a residential wine cellar.

Your wine storage space must be designed by a professional to achieve the ideal temperature and humidity range. This will ensure that your precious wines are protected from being spoiled due to oxidation. When a wine is well-aged, you and your guests will enjoy every glass of it. There is no doubt Vancouver residential wine cellars continue to become a growing trend.

Blue Grouse Wine Cellars – a Top Notch Builder of Vancouver Residential Wine Cellars

Blue Grouse Wine Cellars has been offering quality wine storage solutions for homeowners who are serious about wine collecting. They start the wine cellar design phase after knowing how you wish to store, display, and manage their collection. Wine cellar construction begins after you approved the final design. Blue Grouse always ensures that all the components are installed properly in order for your wine room to be effective.

Essential Components in the Construction of Vancouver Residential Wine Cellars

Essential Wine Cellar Components in Building Canada Wine Cellars

Vapor barriers
Insulation
Wine racks
Lighting
Flooring
Door
Wine cooling system

All these components play a role in achieving proper wine preservation. Choosing the right company for your wine cellar project can help prevent construction mistakes in the future.

Blue Grouse Wine Cellars takes the planning stage carefully to avoid possible mistakes that can ruin your collection and can cause additional expense in the future. They only use quality materials to ensure durability and longevity.

They have built custom wine cellars installed with components that best suit their clients’ aesthetic and functional requirements.

Vancouver, Canada Residential Wine Cellars Completed by a Master Builder

Blue Grouse Wine Cellars has been one of the leading manufacturers of refrigerated wine rooms. Their completed projects show their expertise, excellent craftsmanship, and creativity in designing wine cellars.

A Small Cabinet Transformed into a More Spacious Home Wine Cellar

Custom Wine cabinet with Millwork Surround and Frameless Glass

Custom Wine Cabinet with Frameless Glass Door

In this project, the client wanted a wine room with a higher bottle capacity. From a small wine cabinet, Blue Grouse Wine Cellars transformed it into a more spacious wine cellar. The wine racks are made from walnut wood, a material known for its beauty, versatility, durability, and strength.

The full front wall is made of frameless glass with two doors. Doors made of glass allow you to view the wine bottles from outside the wine cellar without any obstruction. A wine cooling unit from ONAM was used to stabilize the conditions in the room. The bottles stored in the horizontal display row are highlighted with the LED lighting system.

Custom Wine Cellar with All-Glass Enclosure

Glass-Enclosed Home Wine Cellar

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Vancouver Custom Wine Cellar Renovation Project

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Custom Residential Wine Cellar Renovation in Vancouver (a Processed Video Transcription)

Vancouver Residential Renovation with Walnut Racking

Beach Avenue, Vancouver

Hi. I’m Adrienne from Blue Grouse Wine Cellars. I’d like to tell you about our wine cellar project that we completed recently in the Vancouver downtown area on Beach Avenue, and here’s the picture of the area.

You will see how beautiful it is down there. We’re working in a condominium building.

The Old Wine Storage Cabinet of the Client

The client that we worked with had their existing wine cellar or wine cabinet shown in this picture here. It was built with three separate temperature-controlled wine cabinet, one behind each this door.

We’re not really quite sure why it was designed that way, because wine cooling system could definitely handle the space. In any case, they had this for a number of years, about 20 years. And we’re running to update its look, and install properly working wine cooling equipment.

They also wanted to expand the size to accommodate their ever growing collection. So we started by doing designs for them.

We went through a few revisions, and eventually ended up here with this design. These were the drawings that we created so they could see in 3D exactly what they would be getting, and how it would fit the size.

You can see that there wasn’t a whole lot difference than what they started with, but the depth was greatly increased. There was some storage area behind this cellar that we stole space from that used to be a bathroom before their first home wine cellar. So they had easy water connection for the wine cooling system.

The 3D Drawings

Looking through the drawings here. This is the plan view, the top view, so you can see exactly all the measurements, and the various elevations, A, B, and C. Elevation A is the back wall. Behind this box of this cabinet is where the cooling unit is housed.

You can see in this further stripped down view what the cooling unit looks like. It kind of a large metal box with the wall ducting coming up the top and connect to the fitting up here where the cold air blows out into the cellar.

This grill here is where the warm air comes out to the unit. The return air is at the toe kick. It’s a pretty sophisticated design. They didn’t have to have grills. There’s a gap in the toekick at the bottom here where it opens so the air can feed back up to the cooling unit.

We got a shaker style door. They were looking for a pretty clean contemporary design, so you don’t see any fancy moldings or anything here.

The wine racking has some display shelves. These aren’t fold up because as you can see in this view, that the ducting is running up behind. So that hiding the ducting is what giving them some display space for the bottles that they wanted to stand up.

Custom Wine Cellar Features

Lighting

They got LED lighting incorporated at the top to shine down the display feature. They also have LED lighting over top of the display row for the individual bottle racking on either side of the cabinet.

Racking Components

Looking to the next elevations B and C, are mirrors of each other because these are the two sidewalls. They have some diamond bin storage here.

This is for the bulk wine, so when our client has wines that are all the same, all those bottles can fit into the bins here. It maximizes the storage capacity.

It wouldn’t be a good idea to include too many of these if you are somebody who buys 1 to 2 bottles at a time, because you wouldn’t want to mix the bottles in here because getting bottles at the bottom can be quite tricky.

This is the display row running horizontally through the middle. This carries through the perimeter of the room. It has LED lighting over top of the bottles to highlight them.

Elevation D is the front row of the cellar, which was full frameless glass. Now this isn’t the most efficient way to build a Vancouver residential wine cellar, but it can be done and we took careful attention to make sure that the doors had really good seals around them, so we don’t have air escaping or warm air coming into the wine cellar. It’s 12 mm clear tempered glass. They got some pull handles here on the front, and some top and bottom hinges.

Wine Refrigeration System

The cooling unit in here is a really powerful cooling unit. It can actually handle spaces up to 2,000 cubic feet, which is obviously a lot larger than this wine cellar was. But with this full frameless glass wall and no R-value in the front, we do have to compensate for that.

The Completed Home Wine Cellar

View Through Glass Doors into Custom Wine Cellar

Vancouver Wine Cellar Installation by Blue Grouse

So the finished project looks like this. Just as you saw on the drawings, everything matches. That was what the racking is. The installers followed the drawings assembling this wood wine racking and finishing the custom wine cellar.

All the racking was made from walnut wood, and really high quality walnut wood without any knots. And then it had an oil finish applied to it to darken the wood and give it a richer look and feel.

The shelves up here are glass shelves that were installed on brackets. This is where the liquor bottles were displayed by the client. And they’ve got some of their featured bottles highlighted in the display row here under the LED lighting.

I’ll just show you a few more pictures. This picture here shows you the full fronts glass wall. You can see they got some nice pull handles, pretty minimal in their appearance. Brushed nickel to match their brushed nickel catch hardware for the door hinges.

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