A home office can’t just be all fun and games; there needs to be some wine too.
I’ve wanted a wine cabinet for a while. I often pick up a few bottles of red wine when I’m out travelling but have had no good place to store them.
The basement is typically an ideal place to store wine, but our basement is warm all year round, as it has my home office and homelab rack.
A wine cabinet was the obvious choice, but how to fit one? My home office is already pretty crammed…
The corner of my home office has had storage boxes since its beginning. But those are pretty annoying; getting to the bottom box means moving all of the above. And I very rarely used anything in these boxes anyway.
Surely there must be a better way to use this corner?
After some internet research, I ended up purchasing the La Sommelière LS18SILENCE wine cabinet. Some of these cabinets can be quite loud, and I’d like to keep the noise down when I can.
- Maximum capacity: 18 bottles
- Cooling system: fanless hybrid
- Temperature range: 11°C to 18°C
- Noise level: 26 dB
- Dimensions (cm): W 34.5 x D 48.5 x H 67
The fanless hybrid design is a static cooling system that utilizes R600a refrigerant gas in a sealed fluid circuit. Because it relies on natural convection rather than mechanical parts, there is no compressor and no fans. However, it is only capable of cooling down to 12°C below ambient temperature.
I put the storage boxes in the attic and made some simple shelves, making sure to leave enough room for the wine cabinet. This had the added bonus of giving me some storage for my Bosch tools.
The door cannot be re-hinged, making it a bit awkward to open in this corner. However, having it open the other way would probably have been worse, as the wall-mounted power strip could have prevented it from opening completely.
The floor in the corner is a bit uneven, so I used some wooden wedges to make sure the wine cabinet was sitting flush.
By removing the lower shelf, I am able to fit two boxed wines. This leaves me with space for 12 bottles, as each shelf can hold three bottles.
I’ve set the temperature to 14 °C, as it seems to be a good compromise between long-term storage and consumption-ready wine. I figured by the time it’s poured and ready to drink, it has probably increased by a few degrees.
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