Say you have a 7 bedroom, 6 and a half bathroom multi-million dollar estate – but you really want it to stand out. How about a LED-lit wine cellar with individual wine bottle holders and a transparent ceiling? That’s exactly what interior designer and homeowner Jamie Beckwith added to her 12,398 square foot, Gothic-style home in Franklin, Tennessee.
Beckwith is the owner of Beckwith Interiors, which is a luxury residential, retail and corporate interior design firm. Her home was built in 2001, and the interior is full of traditional, high-end decor that reflects her practice’s work. However the pool house of her Tennessee home has a modern twist – a briliant LED-lit wine cellar.
The wine cellar is located at the bottom level of the pool house, like the crypt of a Gothic estate. Classic Gothic arches split the wine cellar, but the material of the arches is what makes this addition so different. The acrylic walls contain hundreds of custom-made wine bottle sleeves. The sleeves are even organized on the back wall of the cellar to resemble the panes of a cathedral’s stained glass windows.
The kicker for this design is that the wine cellar is cleverly lit with LED lighting. These lights can change colors and add life to all of Beckwith’s parties. Because of wine’s sensitivity to lighting and heat, the lights are not on all the time, and a retractable blackout screen can be drawn over the transparent ceiling. The glass ceiling creates a transparent connection to the traditional interior of the pool house, drawing attention to the lights down below.
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