Building Our Wine Cellar

When you're home for several months, you start to think about fixing up the house. Caren's cousin Laurie inspired us to do some construction.

We had an unfinished storage area on the lower level of our house that was built into the hillside. We used the area to collect all kinds of junk over the years. Caren called it "the ratroom." That's a long story we'll leave for another posting.

Laurie suggested we build a wine cellar. What a great idea!

Finding a contractor was nearly impossible. With all the remodelling and contruction going on in the area (the wonder of home equity loans in action), no one wanted to tackle a small job and most contractors had never built a wine cellar.

Several hours of Google searches led us to Gabriel - he builds custom wine cellars and wine cabinets all over SoCal. What a find! If you are interested in building a cellar, check out his website and contact him. We don't get a kickback. GLR Custom Wine Cellars

Construction started in February and maybe we'll be complete in another few days. We better be. Jordan keeps buying wine and storing it in a spare bedroom. It's almost impossible to open the door because there are so many boxes.

Check out Caren's photo chronology of the construction:
Wine Cellar Construction

After we put all the wine into the racks, I think we'll put our inventory online and link to it from this blog. Keep an eye out for when we do this so you can order your favorite wine ahead of time when you are coming over for dinner.