Tigard Wine Cellars builds custom wine walls in Tigard, set flush into kitchen and dining-room walls. Bottles are stored at arm’s-reach depth, closed behind insulated glass doors and cooled independently, so the showpiece is also real storage. You never step in; you open a door and reach, which keeps the chilled volume small and the footprint to a strip of wall.
We also build wine walls for homes in Metzger, King City, Durham, Bull Mountain and Tualatin. A natural place for one is the run between kitchen and dining room, where the collection stays in sight every day.
Small volume, small equipment, awkward placement. CellarPro’s rule for a through-wall unit is that the room behind it must equal or exceed the cooled volume, with 8 inches clear behind the unit, which a bank of cabinets cannot provide. Ducted and split systems solve it by taking noise and heat out of the room: a duct or evaporator serves the wall while the condensing side goes to a utility room, attic or outdoors.
Plan power and drainage alongside the cabinetry. CellarPro’s 1800 series calls for its own 15-amp circuit and WhisperKOOL’s Phantom for its own 20-amp circuit, and WhisperKOOL makes a drain line mandatory on the Phantom.
A wine cooler is an appliance of fixed capacity, and some models are tuned to serving temperature rather than aging. A wine wall belongs to the house: sized to the collection and drawn into the room. On the kitchen refrigerator, Wine Spectator’s view is that it is too cold and dry after a couple of months; it describes a cellar as long-term storage at a consistent temperature near 55°F with humidity control.
Tigard is a city of owner-occupied houses: 57.1% of its homes are single-family detached and 61.7% of occupied homes are lived in by their owners, according to Census ACS 2020–2024 estimates. A built-in wine wall is an improvement that suits a home you own, and an open kitchen and dining layout, whether in an established neighborhood, near River Terrace or on Bull Mountain, gives it an obvious place. Where a house has no basement, a wall on the main floor is the most direct spot for a cellar.
Oregon’s Building Codes Division treats cabinets, countertops and similar finish work as exempt from building permits. Wiring is different: a new permanent circuit for the cooling needs an electrical permit, and framing an insulated recess may need a building permit. Inside city limits both come from the City of Tigard Building Division; for addresses in unincorporated Metzger or parts of Bull Mountain, check Washington County’s own requirements.
With a wine wall you reach in: the bottles live in a shallow, closed enclosure and you take them out while standing in the room. A walk-in cellar is a space you enter. The wall needs less room and smaller equipment, while the walk-in stores more and has space for a counter.
Only for wine that is meant to age. Without cooling, a display wall rises and falls with the room, fine for bottles opened within months but short of the steady 55°F that long-term storage asks for.
It can, once the kitchen’s heat is counted. Ovens, dishwashers and lighting add load, so the enclosure and equipment are sized for them and the exhaust is led away from the cabinet faces.
Where would the wall go, and about how wide is that spot? Tell us how many bottles you want behind the glass and the address. We'll get back to you soon with an estimate or any questions we have. Estimates are free and there's no obligation.