Dramatic Wine Cellar in New Jersey

Welcome back to our blog about building custom wine cellars.

Our latest project in New Jersey started with a blank canvas - a 17' x 17' room which was finished, but not for one of our custom wine cellars.




Check out a video walk-through of this dramatic wine cellar, then read more about the project.



The homeowner had just built the home and was entirely finished except for the wine cellar. He told us that he was tired of making decisions and wanted us to do everything "soup to nuts" including all of the design work.

We began by asking some questions as to the style the homeowner envisioned...we then began to walk through the house to visualize their tastes...we also walked the outside of the home as well. Once we had the feel for their tastes we began to sketch a design - we included pictures, 3D CAD drawings, paint finishes, tile, door swatches, lighting, just about everything the owners would need to see and feel as if they were sitting in the room.



They loved it, and we went right to work!

Once the room was gutted we began to build the wine cellar. The wine cellar had several features: Granite peninsula, smoke eater for cigars, 2 murals with stone effect paint finish, custom humidor, 2 mahogany wrought iron doors and window, Jerusalem gold stone tile with 2 custom mosaics, and of course 3 stone arches 8' tall with 6 scones.





The cellar has a very dramatic feel...the stone tile accents the wine barrel and paint finish...while the "red dragon" granite makes a very bold statement yet picks up all of the colors of the stone arches as well as the murals.



The room was completed with 2 alligator chairs which beg you to light a fine cigar and open a 94 Sassicaia...Bellissimo!!



Please stay tuned for the opening of La Bionda (the blond girl) which is under renovations in Manville NJ...it will open in August with a night club in back, fine Italian food, brick oven pizza, and of course a Joseph & Curtis custom wine cellar.

Check out our website www.josephandcurtis.com if you are interested in a custom wine cellar for your home or business.

Cheers!

Madison, NJ - Custom Wine Cellar Design & Construction

Our latest custom wine cellar project had pretty much all of the elements we could ask for...Design, tasting room, wine cellar, paint finish, cooling system, stone arch, and of course wine racking.



When we first met our homeowner, we walked what would become the finished basement and where we would be designing the wine cellar and tasting room.



We started with a blank canvas (1 cinder block wall)...we decided to take the clients to a previous cellar to get a first hands look at (un-stained mahogany and a stone arch) the customers decided that they loved the arch...but wanted a more "finished" look for the racking (we chose mahogany with a water based stain).

The stone we picked was irregular flag stone (3 different types for contrast within the stone). The homeowner decided to make the cellar the focal point of the new basement by adding 2 windows and a glass door which really makes the basement look fantastic.



After completing the framing, vapor barrier, insulation, Sheetrock, elect, stone arch we went to work on the cellar racking. The design took advantage of the obvious areas for display (under each window we built a custom stand alone display rack for the clients showpiece bottles. We also carried the display rows through all of the racking and in the center of the arch. We also added 2 sconces on the "legs" of the arch which really bring out the colors of the stone. The next part was the tile which was selected with the racking and stone colors in mind.



We picked out a reddish earthy tone tile, oversized and carried into the tasting room. Once the tile was laid we had our painter use all three of the "elements" of the two rooms...(racking, stone, and tile) and we came up with a distressed stone effect, which made the cellar and tasting room appear to be in the space for a very long time. We built custom mahogany cabinetry for the tasting room and finished the space with a wine barrel tasting table with 4 bar stools.



We used a "split" cooling system with the condensing unit sitting in the mechanical room. The homeowners were blown away with the final space! (the wife delighted with the tasting room and the husband about the storage space).

And once again everything was finished on time and of course on budget. Please do not hesitate to give us a call or contact us online for all of your custom wine cellar needs, and remember Joseph and Curtis Custom Wine Cellars perform all phases of the project from design, to construction, to stocking tips.

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Cheers!