| Wouldn't you love to have a home wine room? | | | | you take from your collection?-Now that |
| It's easy. Take advantage of your cool, moist | | | | you've got some wine, you can SORT. Group |
| basement. That is the perfect temperature for | | | | your wine by category- such as reds, whites, |
| wine.Turning your old basement into a | | | | desserts, etc. If you are still not sure what |
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| DECORganize formula.(DECORganize is the way | | | | door each month, ummm.-Create a catalog of |
| to want to get organized and stay that way. I | | | | your collection using index cards or computer |
| created it for people that haven't yet been | | | | software. Organize the catalog by wine type |
| able to get organized or even feel the | | | | and expiration date.-Purge whatever wine is |
| motivation to organize.)DECORganize works | | | | past the expiry date. Once you have sorted |
| especially well for creative people who love | | | | and purged, decide where to house your wine. |
| beautiful things. First decorate and | | | | Will most of the wine stay in your wine |
| beautify, and then organize.You decorate and | | | | cellar/basement while a couple of bottles go |
| beautify by replicating a picture or the idea | | | | upstairs in your wine storage credenza? Does |
| you have in your head of how you want one | | | | your collection warrant building a real wine |
| area in your home to look. Perhaps you've | | | | cellar or only a small wine storage area in |
| seen someone with a wine cellar. What did it | | | | the basement?-Collect the old furniture you |
| look, taste, feel like? How can you recreate | | | | have lying around the basement or attic and |
| it in your own home?I'll give you a few tips | | | | arrange it in a grouping. Put a beautiful |
| on how to create that look in your own home | | | | cloth over the table and arrange seating |
| wine room.-Keep your basement dark. Put the | | | | around it. You can come down here after the |
| one in an area that is not under any light | | | | kids go to bed and light some candles. |
| glare or heat.-Store your wine in a quiet | | | | Whoever thought basements could be so |
| area away from the washer and dryer and | | | | cozy?Once you DECORganize the area in your |
| staircase. Professional organizer Cheryl Ross | | | | basement you want to be your home wine room, |
| says this is because vibration can cause air | | | | that area is a sanctuary. It's "holy" so to |
| bubbles to form in the wine degrading its | | | | speak. No other clutter belongs there. You |
| quality.-If you lay your bottles on their | | | | wouldn't want to put clutter in there! That |
| side, the cork will stay wet and not break | | | | is how DECORganize keeps you organized. It's |
| off. I hate when bits of cork float around in | | | | because your home now is full of areas that |
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