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By Summer Wilde

Custom wine cellars are becoming a sound and cost effective way to store your large or small assortment of wine collections. Some vintages require aging and proper storage to bring them to their full complete potential. A custom wine cellar can allow you to enjoy your treasured collection in a room built for their requirements.

You get added value when you invest in a wine cellar, both for its practicality and its desirability. Although one usually constructs a custom wine cellar to be able to enjoy it when you are in residence, it also adds to the price you can ask if you put the house on the market. Wine cellars, wine refrigerators, and wine cabinets are some of the most fashionable extras, are "absolute necessities" in deluxe homes, and are especially appropriate for mansions located in upscale areas.

You can plan and build a custom wine cellar chiefly for the storage of wine, taking into account the space, finances and the free access to your wine. It can be built in any location in your house. For the preservation of the wine you may use your kitchen, any corner of any room, a vacant cabinet, the attic or the space under your staircase. But the basement would be a better choice than the others.

Each custom wine cellar needs sufficient space for placement of the racking and other mechanical structures. It can also hold a miniature counter and a small amount of crate, bulk, or tub wine storage space. The walls may require appropriate insulation to sustain steady temperature, and it must have a vapor barrier to avoid condensation inside its walls and so as to maintain its humidity.

The cellar's entrance should be sealed with border climate stripping and insulated so as to keep cold, moist air inside the cellar. And, certainly, it needs appropriate refrigeration as well as humidity systems for climate control management, along with electrical wiring to provide room lighting.

Setting up custom racking is the final step in designing your wine cellar. Racks should hold your wine collection within the cellar's dimensions. Remember that some odd-sized bottles may not fit into an off-the-shelf wine rack. Other considerations include: what finishing trim to use (baseboards and crown moldings); whether lighting is needed; countertops and cabinets, if necessary; a door; and any other amenities. A carefully designed home wine cellar will give you and your family great pleasure for years to come.

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