A builder transformed his staircase into a wine cellar that can hold 156 bottles, and it only took him a week to finish it!
Murray Berrill, the owner of Murray Berrill Constructions, incorporated drawers into the steps of his home’s staircase.
In an interview with the Daily Mail, he said: “I hate dead space when renovating a house, as you’re essentially paying for nothing. So we thought of putting the wine in drawers in the staircase rather than behind it,” he said.
He also shared photos of his work on Facebook, which received thousands of shares and comments!
The 58-year-old, who had never made a cellar staircase before, just wanted to try something different. He said: “The drawers are a wide width and are very strong – we spent around $500 at Bunnings just on the drawers alone.
“We had to work out how all the bottles were going to fit and make sure the entire design was strong enough.”
The wine cellar staircase is well insulated and has a built-in thermometer to monitor the temperature.
People on social media loved Murray’s design. One woman even shared his post to the Bunnings Mums Australia Facebook group, writing: “Impressive work you are obviously a very skilled tradesman. More than one headache in there.”
Another wrote: “All you have to do then is find a space to put all the things you usually keep in the under stairs cupboard, hoovers coats, bike etc. In my case a mountain of fishing tackle. But, such a system would be good to store shoes or and bags if you did not have an under stairs cupboard.”
A third added: “As a Carpenter, this is not for ordinary stairs, before people decide to get they power tools out to try and copy this.point 220 |
Only a staircase specially constructed to allow for the weight of the bottles, along with the stairs being strengthened, in other ways to cope with the large sections cut out of it.point 150 | People should think twice before cutting into their stairs, or attempting to alter them in anyway.point 233 |
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