Built for Designers & Architects
Built for Designers & Architects
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Select from high-quality standard or premium wood species for your wine cellar.
We recommend obtaining a sample kit to accurately assess the various woods, grains, and stains.
Opt for our eco-friendly WineSafe™ water-based stain finishes to elevate your wine storage. Crafted with a low VOC, odor-free formula, these stain finishes let you personalize wooden racks to suit your unique style. Available on all InstaCellar™ racks.
Millesime wine cellar systems are customizable to fit any space with various options for wood species, metal finishes, and storage elements to create unique displays.
Work with a Cellar Specialist to fully customize your Millesime display.
VintageView® metal racking is known for its label forward designs that are both modern and budget-frendly.
Select from high-quality metal finish options to give your wine storage space a chic and contemporary feel.
Winesafe™ Clear Coat Satin is water-based, low VOC, and odor-free. We apply two smooth coats to provide a beautiful finish on both stained and unstained racks, protecting the wood and ensuring its longevity. Winesafe™ Clear Coat Satin is available as an add-on for both InstaCellar™ and GrandCellar™ collections.
Support beautiful residential wine rooms, under-stair displays, dining features, and other custom wine cellar plans for a home remodel.
Shape climate-controlled wine displays for restaurants, bars, tasting rooms, and hospitality spaces that need strong presentation and daily durability.
Develop custom wine storage for designers working on small niches, hidden wine cellar architecture, or fully integrated feature walls.
At Wine Racks America, sustainability is a core part of how we do business. We’re committed to ethical sourcing, and we only partner with suppliers who share our values, especially when it comes to responsible forestry.
Every piece of wood we use comes from forests managed for long-term health and biodiversity. By supporting sustainable practices today, we’re helping to preserve the environment for future generations.
You can feel good about your purchase. By choosing Wine Racks America products, you are supporting a business committed to responsible commerce.
How It Works
From schematic planning through final approvals, our free 3D design support helps project teams turn wine storage ideas into buildable, specification-ready solutions. Initial concepts are normally returned within 48 hours.
Send us drawings, dimensions, inspiration images, and storage requirements so we can shape your architectural wine cellar design around the broader project.
We create a full-color 3D rendering so your team can review layout, bottle orientation, material direction, sample swatches, and CAD/BIM files as the design develops.
Once approved, your racks are built to order and typically ship in 4–6 weeks, giving your team a clear path toward procurement and scheduling.
Your contractor or installer can complete the installation, and our wine cellar services for designers help support a smoother transition from approved plans to finished space.
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Start your wine cellar design by choosing the material that fits your style and space. Explore wood, metal, or mixed wood and metal wine rack systems—each offering distinct aesthetics, durability, and flexibility for your build.
We match the cellar to the surrounding design by starting with the room’s materials, lines, and overall visual language. For a traditional home, that may mean warm wood tones, crown and base details, and cork-forward storage that feels integrated with adjacent millwork. For a contemporary project, it may mean cleaner geometry, label-forward presentation, slimmer profiles, and a more minimalist mix of wood and metal.
Our team can help develop wine cellar plans for home designers that respond to finishes already in the space, so the storage feels connected to the architecture instead of added after the fact. That is especially useful with custom wine storage for designers working in open-plan living spaces, dining rooms, or feature walls.
Yes, cellar lighting can be incorporated safely when it is planned to limit UV exposure and excess heat. The goal is to light the room and the display without introducing unnecessary heat near the bottles or creating long periods of direct exposure. Designers often use low-heat lighting strategies and place fixtures so they highlight the collection, shelving, and surrounding finishes rather than shining intensely on the wine itself. This is especially important in luxury projects where the cellar is part of the visual experience.
We also help coordinate storage layouts with wine cooling systems so the display remains properly climate-controlled and the lighting plan works with the mechanical strategy instead of against it.
Yes, frameless glass enclosures can be a strong feature within architectural wine cellar design, but they require early coordination with cooling, door swing, and surrounding finishes. Sightlines, access clearances, and the size of the conditioned space all play a role.
For designers exploring hidden wine cellar architecture or highly visible feature displays, this coordination helps protect the look of the project while supporting stable storage conditions. We can help review project parameters so the enclosure concept works with the storage system and the intended environment.
Yes, we can support both label-forward and cork-forward layouts, and each serves a different design purpose. Label-forward storage tends to feel more architectural and display-driven, which makes it a strong fit for commercial settings where bottle presentation is valued. Cork-forward storage often delivers higher-density capacity and a more traditional wine-room look, especially in a home cellar designed around long-term collection growth.
Many projects use both, combining display sections with bulk storage so the room feels polished and practical at the same time. That approach works especially well for custom wine storage for designers who want feature moments without giving up capacity. It can also support bespoke wine cabinetry for designers who need the wine area to blend with surrounding structures.
If you are designing a new home feature or planning a luxury hospitality space, you can take advantage of our expertise in custom wine cellar design for architects and designers with practical layouts and specification support.
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Order sample swatches to compare wood species and finish options in person as you refine the design.