Case study · Sydney

Bellview Hill

A traditional sandstone cellar designed by Eamonn Egan for a Sydney home, holding about 1,000 bottles. He consulted and designed. He did not build, supply or install it.

Light timber cellar lined with wrought-iron single-bottle racks over black display shelves and open bin storage below.
Timber racking wrapping the cellar, with wrought-iron single-bottle storage above black display shelves.
Designer
Eamonn Egan. Design consultancy only.
Place
Sydney.
Capacity
About 1,000 bottles.
Style
Traditional sandstone.
Timber
Tasmanian oak racking. Glulam bench tops.

Features

The room

The racking is Tasmanian oak. The floor is sandstone. Bench tops are glulam. LED lighting is worked into the room, and a timber lattice conceals the ducting of the climate-controlled cellar.

Wrought-iron features hold single bottles. Black suede-lined display shelves set off the bottles chosen for display. The entry is a dark studded panelled door, finished in bronze patina Axolotl paint, with a custom design of historical motifs.

The joinery, the stone floor and the door were made and installed by the client’s own trades, from the design. Eamonn designed the cellar. He did not build, supply or install it, and he does not carry construction liability for the work.

The finished cellar

  • Timber racking wrapping the cellar, with wrought-iron single-bottle storage above black display shelves.
  • Black suede-lined display shelf set beneath wrought-iron single-bottle storage.
  • Cellar door set in the timber-lined entry, with a keypad beside it.
  • Wrought-iron bottle storage bays and a bottle-end rack.
  • Corner bench over open bin storage.
  • Bench, bins and racking along the cellar walls.
  • Timber lattice detail above the racking.
  • Lattice bottle storage and open shelving.

During construction

These frames show the work as it was built and fitted. The client’s own trades did that work. Eamonn designed the cellar. He did not build, supply or install it.

  • Dark studded panelled entry door, finished in bronze patina Axolotl paint, with a custom design of historical motifs.
  • Rough sandstone pier in an excavated underfloor space with services overhead.
    Before: original sandstone pier beneath the house.
  • Exposed sandstone and brick walls above a new concrete footing.
    Before: exposed sandstone walls during excavation.
  • Rough doorway opening cut through a sandstone block wall.
    Opening cut through the sandstone wall.
  • Finished sandstone doorway with stone steps, before fit-out.
    Sandstone doorway with new step.
  • Concrete footing under brick and sandstone foundations.
    Before: new concrete footing under the original brickwork.

Traditional sandstone gallery