Kitchen Island With Integrated Wine Storage
Wine storage built into the kitchen rather than kept in a separate room: under the island, beside the sink run, at the height a cook actually reaches.
What the photographs show
A kitchen with a stone island, a tall run behind it, and bottles stored in the joinery on both — some glazed and lit, some open below the counter. The wine is where the cooking happens.
What the build had to solve
Kitchen storage lives in a hot, wet, busy room, which rules some things out. Bottles below a counter need a cradle that stops them rolling when a door is kicked shut, cooling needs the plinth vent kept clear of the dishwasher, and the interior has to be wipeable because flour and steam find every surface eventually.
What to copy, and what to avoid
Worth copying: cradles under the island. Worth avoiding: a cooled unit beside an oven or a dishwasher — the plant works against both.
- Location
- Island and tall run, at working height
- Interior
- Wipeable, cradles that stop roll
- Cooling
- Kept clear of oven and dishwasher; vent at plinth
- Frame
- Stainless, 18 mm sightline
- Voltage
- 110 V / 60 Hz where cooled in North America
- 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
Can wine be stored next to an oven?
Not in the same run. Heat from an oven cooks the worst-case spot in a kitchen, and a bottle stored at 30 °C for a summer is not the same bottle afterwards.
Is under-island storage practical?
It is, in cradles, if the door has a stop and the run is not where everybody kicks. It is a working store for bottles you will drink, not an ageing cellar.
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.