Double-Sided Cellar Corridor in Dark Steel
A passage turned into a cellar: bottle walls on both sides, dark frames, lit from inside so the corridor lights the way it leads.
What the photographs show
A narrow passage with racks built into both long walls, dark frames, and the interior lighting doing the work of a corridor light. At the far end the room opens out, so the passage reads as a threshold rather than a cupboard.
What the build had to solve
In a corridor the racks cannot project more than the door swing allows, so depth is the constraint that decides everything else: bottle pitch is set to the shortest bottle the client buys, and the deepest row is only used where the wall can take it without narrowing the walk. Frame stays at an 18 mm line on both sides so the corridor reads symmetrical.
What to copy, and what to avoid
Worth copying: keeping the two walls symmetrical in depth. Worth avoiding: a deep row on one side only, which makes a straight corridor feel like it is leaning.
- Mount
- Recessed into both long walls
- Depth
- Set to the door swing, not to the wall
- Frame
- Dark stainless, 18 mm both sides
- Lighting
- Interior LED washing the opposite wall
- Rows
- Pitch set to the shortest bottle in use
- Production
- 30 to 40 days, quoted per project
Frame 18 mm · glass panes up to 2,400 mm · scribe 40 mm · door reveal 3 mm · lead time 30 to 40 days, quoted per project · crated to a numbered setting-out drawing
The same scene, frame by frame
Photographs from our project archive, grouped by room type rather than by client. No client and no address is named on these pages.
What clients ask about a room like this one
How wide should the passage stay?
Wide enough that two people do not turn sideways and a case of wine can pass. The drawing fixes the clear width first, then the rack depth to whatever is left.
Why is the pitch set to the shortest bottle?
Because a row cut for Burgundy will let a Bordeaux slide. Pitch is set per row, and the drawing labels which row takes which shape.
A room like this one, to your dimensions
Send three photographs of the wall and the bottle count. What comes back is a scheme, a drawing and a fixed price.