First of all I like to apologize for not having finished the story about the wine cellar earlier. I can only blame the summer and a lot of other things that I have been occupied with. It is however only one chapter left so let me describe the finishing of the work.
This time I will tell you about the ceiling and a few other things. The floor above was an old fashioned construction with thin beams of wood supported by a quite heavy beam spanning over the entire cellar. Between the wood they had poured plaster so you could say it was a wood reinforced plaster construction. The plaster surface of the ceiling was coming off in big pieces and was very hard to restore. In some other rooms I had chosen to put in false ceilings of plasterboard just two centimetres under the damaged original plaster ceiling, which did not affect the room height in any visible way. I did not like this construction in the cellar of two reasons, first it did not feel right to use plaster board in a slightly humid environment and secondly, it looked too elegant with such a ceiling in a wine cellar.
Instead I made a both good looking and low cost construction. Between the supporting beam and the walls on both sides of the beam I put thinner secondary beams of 50x75 mm with a distance of
In my opinion it looked really good.
As the cellar had been the only storage room we had in the house we needed to assign a space for storage that would not destroy the feeling of the wine cellar. We decided on an entresol made in the same rustic style. The storage for the wine we found in the local Bricomarché. It is a traditional construction made of iron bars that fulfil the purpose well and also looks good.
I friend gave us a wine barrel in oak from one of the local wineries. We converted that to a table by letting the local glazier cut a round glass plate that we fitted into the rim of the barrel, supported by five champagne corks cut to the right height.
