Wood Wine Cellars: Facts You Should Know

September 18th, 2012 Filed under: Storage Ideas

If you are considering wood wine cellar, wine racks, or even wine cabinets for the storage of items in your house, you need to know some facts concerning the wood used as the materials. You may have known that wood type serves as the prime concern for every homeowner in building his custom wine cellars, racks or cabinets. The type of wood used really determines the aesthetics, longevity, and consistency. These elements are always be real concern by all wood wine cellar builders.

The most common selections of wood wine cellar are considered to be ash, pine, alder, mahogany, walnut, cherry, redwood, and red oak. Meanwhile, the most popular in wine cellar industry include redwood, pine, and mahogany. What make these three wood species ideal for wine cellar and fixtures found in wine storage are their distinct properties. The most economical wood wine cellar are those made of Pine. Being the cheapest, pine is chosen by most homeowners because of its fast building and semi-custom formats. There are benefits you can get from pine wine cellars, including their light weight and softness and lower shock resistance. Besides its low cost, pine wood wine cellar is preferred for its rustic appearance, smooth texture, compatibility with stain applications, and light color schemes.

If your home posses a green natural theme, then redwood is the best material for your wood wine cellar. Redwood is preferred because it is recyclable, renewable, as well as biodegradable resource. Aesthetics is the major advantage you can get from Redwood. Moreover, there are other advantages of Redwood which usually influence the wood choice taken by every homeowner for wood wine cellar. The big pluses are its compatibility with humid conditions, non-aromatic characteristic, decay and shock resistance, and natural oils that acts as wood preservatives as well.

Even more interesting in the facts of wood wine cellar is Mahogany, which is the most preferred wood specie. Mahogany applies to almost all items for structure building, including cabinets, quality furniture, custom wine cellars and sculpture. This type of wood can be used as a great alternative for furniture, wine cellar doors, and other things found in custom wood wine cellar. Mahogany is in high demand because of its stability and durability, resistance to decay, warping, weathering, and of course, shrinking. More outstandingly, Mahogany is highly adaptable to higher levels of humidity. As for the color diversity of wood wine cellar, Mahogany has the most eyecatching variants. At last, Malaysian Mahogany considered as the best wood specie for wine cellar.

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