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Building a beer cellar (shelving and stuff)

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atomeyes
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Building a beer cellar (shelving and stuff)

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Starting to work on my beer cellar next week. I have the walls up and the carpet's coming out.
Deciding on a few things and i'd appreciate some suggestions.

1. flooring - thinking of having bare concrete floors. if i don't, what would someone suggest? cork?
2. shelves - debating what to do that would be strong, adjustable and economical and not look horrible. anyone have any thoughts about shelving? even having retail-like shelves that you can buy used or at home depot's a thought. otherwise, i'd look at metal shelving units, which wouldn't be adjustable, cost a lot and are probably too tall. i was thinking of making my own wooden shelves, but that will take time and i'm not sure how bad that would look (esp if/when we sell the house)
3. temp adjustments - debating if i should just leave the room winter cold or have some sort of temp monitoring.

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I bought my shelves at Costco. Kind of expensive, but very sturdy. 125 lbs. per shelf so I keep my beer grains on some of them. I need a couple more to expand my beer cellar, but not at this time of year.
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