Thank you Nick. Very appreciative of your help.
Cheers!
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Keep @Robert.A.Jr out of this thread
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We turned a kennel . . .
into 2300+ bottles
Function over form. Thanks @Simon_Haidamous for the referral
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This looks great! So glad Ben worked out for you. Time to drink and reload!
Chevaliers du Tastevin guy!
-Al
My off-site cellar. Not at all stylish, but efficient!
Some big boxes in the last shelves for rieslings/magnums.
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Very cool!
The Holy Grail is hidden 48 rows to the right!
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How did you know? 
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It’s right above the ark of the covenant.
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“You have chosen… wisely. But, beware: the Grail cannot pass beyond the Great Seal. That is the boundary, and the price, of immortality.”
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The somehow finished product of a two day cellar setup for my FIL:
At least half a day was clearing up the “mess” that filled that room and another couple of hours cutting old doors down to size to make makeshift shelves.
No insulation but it’s underground so temperatures don’t fluctuate too quickly. That’s what my FIL wanted.
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Same kind of shelves I used to keep my stereo on!
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Here are a few pictures of my new cellar. The cellar holds a total of ~700 bottles total with 500 bottles in the lower cabinets and 200 bottles in the racks. The lower cabinet have ~250 four inch tubes that are 21 inches long. They are big enough to be double deep and hold pretty much any 750ml bottle that I own.
I’ve also installed about 550 adressable LED lights in the cabinets that surround each of the tubes. They are powered by this thing called a “Pixelblaze” and I’ve written an app that is deployed on top of CellarTracker and whenever I browse to an individual wine page it will light up the tubes where those wines are located.
If you are interested you can see a couple of videos here:
(1) Wine finder app: https://youtu.be/ErYykxqY5lU
(2) Wine Cellar Pixelblaze 2D Matrix demo: https://youtu.be/e6N6qM9zCNk
It’s been a fun project. A few loose ends to tie up but it seems to be working well. My next enhancement will be to identify all the tubes that have empty spaces so I can fill them back up.
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Well that’s super cool. Well done.
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Very cool - nice work!
Love this! I have actually also considered doing LEDs for slots in the cellar (inspired by pick-to-light systems I worked on at Amazon back in the day), but I haven’t gotten around to doing it. I’d really only want to do it if i could address each slot individually, and also wire it cleanly enough that you don’t notice it. And when I start thinking about that it feels daunting. But maybe some day I will tackle it. This has given me a bit more inspiration…
The wiring on this project was pretty annoying. When I spec’d the cabinetry I didn’t have such grand plans. So the cabinetry specs I made fit perfect to the 4" tube honeycomb config which didn’t leave much room for the wires. I ended up using pixels with 8" spacing between the lights. You can’t really notice them when they are turned off (to my eye) and I did a decent but not perfect job of hiding the wires.
Yeah, I was thinking, I wish I had worked this into the plans from the beginning, so I could run wires into the racks from behind. Oh well.
It seems everything would be better built twice.
-Al
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