Under-Stair Wine Display and Cellar Run
The triangular space under a stair, cut into stepped runs of bottle storage instead of being boarded up as a cupboard.
What the photographs show
A stair coming down over a run of racks, with the storage stepped to follow the underside of the flight rather than squared off. The treads are visible from the room, and the wine sits in the shadow of the stair with light washing the bottles from the front.
What the build had to solve
A stair soffit is never parallel to the floor, so the run is built as a series of stacked bays, each one shorter than the last, and the frame is cut to the stringer line. The stepped edge is drawn first; every bay after it follows the same diminishing pattern so the eye reads one object instead of six.
What to copy, and what to avoid
Worth copying: stepping the run in equal increments. Worth avoiding: squaring the soffit off with a box, which costs the volume that made the space worth using.
- Mount
- Stepped bays under the stair stringer
- Edge
- Cut to the soffit line, not squared off
- Rows
- Bottle cradles, pitch per shape
- Frame
- Dark stainless, 18 mm sightline
- Lighting
- Front wash, switched with the stair
- 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 the space be closed in?
It can, and a glazed front under a stair looks well where the stair is open to a living room. Closed storage needs ventilation at the bottom of the run so the space does not hold damp.
What about the headroom?
Measure the stair at three points along the run and send all three. The bays are cut to the lowest number at each point, so nobody ends up with a shelf they cannot reach.
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.