Glass wine cellars and wine rooms

Glass wine cellars installed by Shower Doors of Nashville have cost from about $700–800 at the low end to $30,000–40,000 for the largest rooms. The range is wide because the projects are. A converted closet and a full room walled in glass, with oversized doors on hydraulic hinges, are very different jobs.

The number for your space comes from a free visit. Steve goes over the designs with you, takes the final measurements and prices the glass, the doors and the hardware you pick. Whether the room will be refrigerated or not is settled at the same visit. Call 615.431.5070 or send a message to set one up.

Yes. A glass wine room is sealed with clear polycarbonate seals so the conditioned air stays inside. The glass is mostly 3/8″ or 1/2″ clear tempered low-iron, which shows the bottles without the green tint of ordinary glass. Cellars can be refrigerated or not, depending on how you plan to store the wine.

Condensation is the other worry people raise about a glass cellar. Asked whether the glass sweats, Steve’s answer was short: “So I would say no to the condensation.” Day to day, the glass wipes clean like any other glass door, and he calls the cleaning very easy.

In most homes, yes. Closets and under-stair spaces both convert into glass wine rooms, and in Steve’s words, “we have not found a space we can’t work with.” The size of the space sets the scale of the job, from a single glass front to a room enclosed on several sides.

Shower Doors of Nashville works with a lot of contractors. If the space needs framing, cooling or finish work before the glass goes in, we work with your builder to get the room ready. If you’re planning glass elsewhere in the house, such as a glass-walled dining room or office, see the decorative and cabinet glass page.

A single glass wine cellar door can be up to 40″ wide and any height up to 140″. Most wine rooms get double doors instead, and a 60″ opening often ends up as two 30″ doors. Splitting the opening that way keeps each door inside the size limit.

Big doors are where the engineering comes in. The team has built oversized doors and fronts hung on hydraulic hinges, some of them among the most technically difficult glass jobs a wine room can call for. Door size, the swing and the hinge type are worked out at the final measure, before anything is ordered. If the cellar is part of a larger remodel, Steve can go over the doors with your contractor at the same time.

Once the deposit is paid, everything is installed within two weeks. Before that comes a free visit at the house, where Steve gives you an estimate, goes over the designs and takes the final measurements. The deposit is what starts fabrication, so the two-week clock runs from the day it’s paid.

On a new build or a remodel, the room has to be ready for glass first. Shower Doors of Nashville coordinates that timing with your contractor, so the glass goes in once the framing and finishes around the opening are done.

Glass wine cellars from Shower Doors of Nashville carry a lifetime warranty. Ask Steve to walk you through what it covers when he gives you the quote. The same team builds frameless shower enclosures, so if a bathroom is part of the same remodel, both can be measured on one visit.