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Building Your Own Wine Room
Step 11:  Install Final Wall and/or Floor Covering

Now you need to make your room pretty!  Or not.

You can skip this step, if you wish, and just have a utilitarian room.  We have several acquaintances who have done just that.  The room serves its purpose -- who cares what it looks like!

But if you want to make it look good, you need to do something with the walls.  If they are drywall, you can paint or paper them (be sure to put "sizing" on first if you paper), or add paneling.  If they are wood, you can add paneling or a second layer of finishing wood.  If you've got the bucks, this is the point where you invite a fine wood craftsman in to do wonderful things to your walls and build racks (or frames for your VintageView racks from Bracksco!) which will make everyone ooh and ahh.  In fact, we now sell do-it-yourself wood cabinets for VintageView wine racks (right).

We chose to add brick-look paneling on top of our OSB for our own wine room.

At this point you'll also want to finish the floor (assuming you only have a subfloor exposed, or maybe even if you have a finished floor).  Options include ceramic and other tiles, marble, natural wood flooring, cork, wood- or stone-look tiles, but not carpet, which will likely acquire mold.  The choice is yours.

This is also the point at which you consider whether or not to install a baseboard.  There is really no reason to install a baseboard in a wine room.  You can start your wine racks right at the floor level for maximum room capacity.  If you do that all around, you may not even need the seemingly obligatory quarter-round to cover the seam between wall and floor.

Ah yes, one final point.  If you are installing a cooler, you may have to install a small shelf to help hold the weight of the cooler.  Consult your cooler's instructions for dimensions.  Do not plan to put wine on the same shelf, as it may vibrate.

And now, let's continue with Step 12:  Complete electrical work.

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