The lockdown is the ideal time to do the things around the house that you’ve neglected for way too long—things like finally getting rid of the stuff you stashed “just in case” and ended up not using in 5 years or sorting the heap of clothes on that one chair at home. You know, the chair.
Or, just a thought, you can also take on a DIY project to make your home feel more alive. Like building your very own wine cellar inside of a staircase. Yep, that just happened.
A house renovator from Australia built a staircase that doubles as a wine cellar to reduce dead space
Image credits: Murray Berrill
Murray Berrill, a 58-year-old house renovator and builder from Victoria, Australia, has recently shared some photos of his most recent project—a flight of stairs that doubles as a wine cellar.
Berrill was working on a house project that required the construction of a wine cellar. But instead of doing it the old-fashioned way, he figured he could try to merge it with other parts of the house.
His dislike of dead space in the houses he renovates fueled the idea of installing drawers for wine bottles in a flight of stairs. He claims that dead space doesn’t add any value to a home and is practically paying for nothing.
The staircase features insulation, temperature tracking, and 12 drawers that can fit up to 156 bottles of wine
Image credits: Murray Berrill
The stairs feature 12 widened and extended drawers equipped with bottle holders. It is possible to fit a total of 156 bottles of wine throughout the entirety of the stairs. In fact, it looks like bottles of anything can be stored inside, as long as they fit the holders.
Murray had to work out a lot of details in his design. Not only did the drawers have to be wide enough to fit the bottles (in two juxtaposed rows), but the stairs themselves had to be structurally strong enough to function as stairs, all the while also doubling as a wine cellar.
Fun fact: the drawers themselves were acquired from Bunnings Warehouse, a hardware store chain in Australia (and beyond), for $500 as they were of wide dimensions, along with a number of other materials needed to build the stairs.
The flight of stairs is well-insulated and also comes with its own thermometer to track the temperature. Murray also has thoughts of installing some equipment that would keep the wine cool during the hotter seasons of the year.
It took around a week and a half to build.
The project is said to cost $5,000 and can actually be used to store a number of things other than alcohol
Image credits: Murray Berrill
Now, a set of wine cellar stairs won’t come cheap as it’s said to cost $5,000. However, building an actual wine cellar would be a much more expensive project, and would be more oriented towards producers of wine, while amateurs and aficionados now have an ideal solution to an otherwise expensive project.
It wasn’t long until the photos caught the attention of a number of wine lover and DIY groups on Facebook, including the Bunnings Mums Australia Facebook group, which has over 115,000 members.
People found this idea to be simply genius, praising the good use of dead space around the house. Some joked that they now need to somehow get $5,000 and try to make a design with more drawers installed.
What are your thoughts on the wine stairs? What would you rather store inside the drawers? Let us know in the comment section below!
Here’s what people online thought of the wine cellar stair case idea
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