Door in the Floor Leads to Amazing Spiral Wine Dungeon
The ultimate way to store your top drops
Cool wine cellar and handy bomb shelter too...:
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Rich wine nerds have a wine cellar. Very, very rich wine nerds install a door in their kitchen floor leading to a spiral staircase surrounded by wine, which is the coolest wine cellar ever.
In addition to being certifiably badass, a spiral wine cellar uses the ground to keep bottles at an ideal temperature without needing any fancy electronics. It saves space and, sure, why not, let's call it cost effective.
The Spiral Cellars come in sizes that can hold between 1000 and 1600 bottles, which is about 997 to 1597 more bottles than I usually have on hand. But if I had a trap door in my floor leading to a spiral cellar? I'd have closer to 15 bottles. Believe it!
Oh, and these start at $US30,000, which is a lot of wine money, so you'd better have some serious scratch if you want to get on board.
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I'm not much of a wine buff, but the trapdoor would be great for storing valuables or all the junk that won't fit in any other room. In time, perhaps you could just stick a whole bunch of doors in the floor and not worry about cupboards :)
2 out of 2 people found this comment helpfulThat would be the most awesome cellar. Hope the glass is tough enough to take the weight of constant walking over.
0 out of 0 people found this comment helpfulIf its fibreglass and of a decent thickness, it'll be no problem. I'd love to have a house with various trapdoors in the floors, walls and ceilings going to places...although getting lost in the house would be a problem.
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