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What a great use of a bedroom !! ... we particularly liked the flooring idea and we are going to investigate it for our own ( albeit, uglier cellar) ... Art & Betsy

Marshall writes .......

Since our house is a raised-foundation house, we had to put the cellar in an upstairs bedroom. I built a second wall inside the first one using 2 x 4s. I then used 3 1/2" inches of roofing insulation (about R-25 or so), and sheetrocked over that. Sheetrocking isn't that difficult, and I did it myself without much trouble. If you want an extremely smooth surface for painting, you may want someone else to do it, but I like the looks of a rough, stucco-looking wall.

The racks were done by Apex, and cost about $3000 for 1500 bottles, all single bottle racks, so I don't have to worry about bottles falling out of bins.

If I say so myself, I think my flooring idea was excellent. I used something called Puzzlemats. They're about 3/4" thick foam rubber, and are interlocking tiles. They are fairly cheap (about $150 for a 12 x 10 room), are easy to install (just cut tight with a razor knife and lay flat, no adhesives or nasty smells), and I've dropped a bottle from waist height without breaking it.

I'm using a Whisperkool 4200 cooling unit.

Total cost for the whole job (I did everything myself except for the racks and running the dedicated electrical line) was $6,000.

The entrance ... the far view ... a rear view

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