Vintage Cellars Colorado
Vintage Cellars designs and builds custom wine cellars for homeowners throughout Denver, Arvada, Aurora and communities along Colorado’s Front Range. From contemporary glass wine rooms to darker, mountain-inspired cellars, each project is designed around the home, the collection and the way the homeowner wants to use the space.
Our Colorado wine cellar and sauna specialist, Chancey Ogard, brings firsthand knowledge of the region along with years of experience in the wine storage industry. She helps homeowners navigate the process from the initial idea through decisions about storage, climate control, materials and the overall look and feel of the space.
Colorado Contact
Vice President of National Sales
Vintage Cellars & Saunas
Colorado Sales
(620) 805-9291
Email
[email protected]
Colorado Location
15779 W 83rd Place
Arvada, CO 80007
Designed for Colorado Homes
Building a wine cellar in Colorado starts with understanding more than the dimensions of the room.
Colorado’s dry climate is a very different starting point from a humid coastal market. Chancey looks at the conditions inside the individual home—including whether it already uses whole-house humidification—along with how the collection has historically been stored and how long the homeowner intends to keep it.
A collection that has spent years in Colorado may have experienced very different conditions from one recently brought here from another part of the country.
Chancey’s approach is to understand those variables before determining what the cellar actually needs.
“The climate out here is very dry. A lot of people have humidifiers in their homes, so it’s about understanding what the climate is like inside their house, and then figuring out what’s going to best suit that client.” — Chancey Ogard
That also means not assuming every collector needs the same thing. Someone building a collection for decades of aging has different priorities from someone who regularly rotates through what they buy.
A beautiful cellar matters, but proper wine storage starts with understanding what you collect, how you store it and how long you intend to keep it.
Meet Your Colorado Specialist
Chancey’s connection to Colorado started in 2012, when she moved from Kansas to Pueblo for an opportunity to coach volleyball at CSU Pueblo. A former collegiate volleyball player herself, she remained close to the sport before eventually moving to Colorado Springs and beginning a career in finance.
Her path took another unexpected turn when she was offered an opportunity to play volleyball in Italy. Chancey spent several years there playing, coaching high school volleyball on the side, and traveling throughout the country. When it was time to return home, she only had one thing to say:
“No one goes back to Kansas.” — Chancey
She came back to Denver, and Colorado became home.
Her introduction to the wine industry was nearly as unexpected. While Chancey was working in finance in South Denver, a connection led to dinner with someone working for wine rack manufacturer VintageView. Chancey didn’t realize the dinner was essentially an interview.
“It was funny—I interviewed at a dinner that I didn’t even know was an interview. She said, ‘Oh my God, you’d be a great fit. I need you to come meet the CEO.’”
She met the team, saw how much they enjoyed the industry and decided to take a gamble: leave finance and move into a tangible product business.
“This industry is incredible. The nicest people are in it—not just customers, but vendors and wine cellar builders too.”
That work also introduced Chancey to Chris, now the owner of Vintage Cellars. Through years of working with customers, manufacturers and cellar professionals, her experience expanded beyond wine racking into the larger cellar-building process.
“He offered me the chance to come on as a wine cellar builder, and I was like, ‘You better believe it.’ It gives me more design opportunities, and I already loved working with customers.”
For Chancey, designing a wine cellar is also a way of learning about the person behind the collection.
“I love the design process. You get to really see and learn who people are when they want to create a wine cellar.”
Homeowners don’t always arrive knowing exactly what they need. The process can uncover how they collect wine, which bottles matter most, how their collection may grow and even things they had never considered about how they currently store it.
“I always tell my husband is that it doesn’t hurt to learn something new every day. And I feel like when you’re in the design process, you learn so much, not only about everyone else, or about products, but you learn something about yourself and that’s just the funnest part about it.”
And that learning extends to the people she is building for, where many “learn more about their collection through the design process.”
Colorado Local—By Choice
Today, Chancey lives in Arvada with her husband, an Arvada native.
They spend plenty of time taking advantage of the Colorado outdoors. Her husband is an avid fly fisherman, they hike together, and Chancey snowboards. They also like taking weekend drives to different Colorado communities simply to explore and find somewhere new to eat.
Chancey admits that she’s actually a beach person at heart, but has fallen for the mountainous Front Range.
“I feel like you have to love the mountains to really live out here—and you do get a totally different experience of life when you live in the mountains.”
These aren’t just places Chancey serves professionally. Colorado has been her home for more than a decade, and she’s watched the communities along the Front Range change dramatically during that time.
Chancey’s Colorado Hidden Gem
“Man, I would say as far as if you’re hiking, Black Canyon out in Gunnison to me would be a hidden gem because when everyone thinks of Gunnison, it’s usually like hotter and drier… But it actually has a river that runs through it. And if you like water like me, you get to hear the river even up into the cliffs. But the hikes are just absolutely incredible.”
Chancey loves hiking through the area and finding smaller waterfalls when you hike into the right spots.
“I know this is going to sound crazy, but in Buena Vista, just like southwest of Pueblo, there’s this pizza place. And it is absolutely to die for. If you like like Italian like Neapolitan pizza, then like it’s worth it.”
Chancey and her husband sometimes will drive to random cities within the Front Range on the weekends just to try random restaurants.
Colorado-Specific Planning
“The climate out here is dry. A lot of people here have humidifiers in their house, so it’s getting to understand what the climate is specifically in their house and then determining what’s going to best suit that client and their environment.”
Humidity is one of the first Colorado-specific considerations. Some Colorado homeowners compensate with whole-house humidification, creating substantially different indoor conditions from one home to another.
Chancey wants to know whether the collection has always lived in Colorado, whether it came from another climate, whether it has already been climate controlled and how long the owner expects to keep individual bottles.
Not every homeowner needs to create an environment for bottles they will keep for 15 years. The appropriate solution depends on the wine, homeowner and intended use of the room.
Complete Wine Cellar Services
Every project begins with the collection, available space, architecture and homeowner’s goals.
“What I might need is not the same as what someone else needs… it’s understanding that we do have a drier climate here, if their collection been in a climate control before, and then also understanding how long they’re wanting to store their wine so that we can make sure that the climate that we currently live in suits those needs.” – Chancey
Traditional wood racking, contemporary metal systems, display storage and combinations can be designed around both bottle capacity, available space, home build, and presentation.
Climate-control planning takes the room, collection and conditions inside the home into account.
Glass-fronted wine rooms allow a collection to become an architectural feature within surrounding living, dining or entertaining spaces.
Lighting, finishes and architectural details turn functional wine storage into a finished room that feels intentional within the home.
Vintage Cellars also designs home saunas for Colorado homeowners, either alongside a wine cellar project or as a separate addition. And for those living in Colorado, Chancey noticed many live lifestyles in tune with great wellness and health.
She has seen sauna interest increase significantly as wellness becomes a larger part of how Colorado homeowners think about their homes.
“There’s been a higher demand in wine cellars and saunas. I’ve actually seen a recent increase in sauna requests specifically. I think a big push of it has come from everyone moving toward that healthier trend.”
Colorado Design Trends
There isn’t one “Colorado wine cellar” aesthetic. However, Chancey has noticed homeowners showing renewed interest in designs that feel more connected to the character of Colorado homes.
“A lot of people are really liking the more rustic style right now—going back to that cabin-y feel, darker, more dramatic tones.” — Chancey Ogard
That can mean darker woods, richer finishes and more intimate environments rather than the bright, ultra-modern wine displays associated with some other luxury markets.
At the same time, the best design still starts with the architecture of the home and the personality of the homeowner rather than trying to force a “mountain” aesthetic into every project.
Local Expertise, Organized by Region
Chancey pointed out that “Front Range” is the language Coloradans themselves commonly use for the populated corridor running along the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains.
Rather than treating Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins and Colorado Springs as unrelated markets, Vintage Cellars serves homeowners throughout this connected region—with different housing, economic and development patterns creating different opportunities for wine cellar design.
Denver Metro & Western Suburbs
Denver • Arvada • Aurora • Golden • Thornton • Broomfield
Denver sits at the center of the market, but the surrounding communities have changed significantly during Chancey’s time in Colorado.
She remembers driving E470 after moving here in 2012, when the corridor felt much less developed and drivers still stopped to pay tolls. Since then, she has watched neighborhoods, transportation and residential development expand across the metro.
Arvada is particularly personal: it’s where Chancey and her husband live and where Vintage Cellars’ Colorado location is now based.
To the west, Chancey has also identified Golden and Arvada as areas where custom builders and new residential development are creating opportunities for higher-end home features.
The mix of established Denver residences, newer development and custom construction means cellar projects in this region can range from converting existing spaces to incorporating a wine room into a new home’s plans from the beginning.
Boulder, Broomfield & Northern Colorado
Boulder • Broomfield • Fort Collins • Northern Front Range
Heading north, the economic profile changes.
Chancey specifically identifies Boulder and Fort Collins as markets where technology-sector wealth and larger homes create opportunities for custom wine cellars, home saunas and other personalized luxury spaces.
Broomfield sits naturally between the Denver and Boulder markets, while Fort Collins anchors the northern end of the Front Range communities Vintage Cellars serves.
These areas can lend themselves particularly well to projects where the wine cellar is considered alongside a larger custom-home or lifestyle design rather than as an isolated storage room.
South Denver & the Castle Rock Corridor
Cherry Hills Village • Cherry Creek • Highlands Ranch • Parker • Castle Rock
South of Denver, the market includes both established luxury communities and rapidly developing residential areas.
Cherry Hills Village and Cherry Creek represent some of the Denver area’s established high-end residential markets, while Parker, Highlands Ranch and Castle Rock extend the luxury and custom-home corridor farther south.
Chancey has watched what once felt like much greater separation between Denver and Castle Rock steadily fill with residential development.
For homeowners building or remodeling in this corridor, involving the wine cellar designer earlier in the process can create more flexibility around room placement, refrigeration, glass, racking and integration with entertainment spaces.
Monument, Colorado Springs & the Southern Front Range
Monument • Colorado Springs • Black Forest • Woodland Park
Farther south, Chancey sees another distinct opportunity.
She specifically identifies Monument and northern Colorado Springs as areas with substantial new construction and custom-builder activity.
Black Forest and Woodland Park add another dimension to the market, with homes and surroundings that can lend themselves naturally to more rustic or mountain-influenced design.
Rather than treating these communities as distant additions to a Denver service-area list, Vintage Cellars considers them part of the larger Front Range market Chancey has lived and worked within since first arriving in Pueblo in 2012.
A Region in Motion
Chancey has had a front-row seat to Colorado’s growth for more than a decade.
She has lived in Pueblo, Colorado Springs and the Denver area, watched development spread along the I-25 corridor and seen communities that once felt distinctly separated become increasingly connected.
That perspective matters because much of Vintage Cellars’ opportunity in Colorado isn’t simply coming from existing luxury homes—it is also coming from new construction, custom builders and homeowners investing more intentionally in the spaces they live in.
And as Colorado continues to attract residents from elsewhere in the country, those homeowners bring their collections, design preferences and expectations with them.
For Chancey, that makes understanding the homeowner just as important as understanding Colorado.
Why Vintage Cellars
Your Colorado specialist actually lives along the Front Range and has experienced the region’s growth firsthand.
The cellar is planned around the home, collection, aesthetic and storage goals rather than a predetermined package.
The design considers both what the room should look like and what the wine actually needs.
Chancey provides the local relationship while working with the broader Vintage Cellars team and its established wine cellar design and construction resources.
Wine, Wellness & Colorado Living
Colorado’s relationship with the outdoors also influences what homeowners are creating inside—and outside—their homes.
Chancey saw that firsthand while house hunting around Arvada with her husband. She was surprised by just how frequently they encountered homes with wine storage and saunas, ranging from small indoor installations to outdoor barrel-style saunas.
“You’d be shocked. You could be driving down the road, see barrels sitting outside someone’s home, and it just clicks—oh, that’s a sauna.”
For Chancey, the trend makes sense. Colorado’s culture places a strong emphasis on outdoor recreation, fitness, recovery and wellness. A home sauna gives homeowners another way to incorporate that lifestyle into the home.
“If I had to name a trend, it would just be the overall fact that everyone’s trying to get into that wellness feeling—and that alone has created higher demand.”
Vintage Cellars can design a sauna as a standalone project or consider it alongside a larger wine cellar, entertainment or wellness space.
Colorado Wine Cellar FAQs
Yes. Colorado’s dry climate makes humidity an important consideration, particularly for wine intended for longer-term storage. However, conditions inside individual homes vary, especially when whole-house humidification is used. That’s why the home and collection should be evaluated before determining the appropriate cellar environment.
It depends on the room, collection and storage goals. Factors such as the conditions inside the home, whether the wine has previously been climate controlled and how long you intend to store it should all be considered before recommending a solution.
There isn’t one required Colorado style. Chancey has seen increased interest in rustic, cabin-inspired cellars with darker, more dramatic tones, but the architecture of the home and homeowner’s preferences should ultimately drive the design.
Vintage Cellars serves homeowners throughout Denver and Colorado’s Front Range, including Arvada, Aurora, Golden, Boulder, Fort Collins, Cherry Hills Village, Parker, Castle Rock, Monument, Colorado Springs and surrounding communities.
Yes. Vintage Cellars can collaborate with the professionals involved in a new construction or remodeling project so wine storage, refrigeration, glass, electrical requirements, finishes and other design considerations can be planned as part of the larger space.
Yes. The cellar should reflect your actual collection, future plans, available space and storage goals rather than assuming every project needs to be a massive traditional wine room.
Absolutely. That’s part of the design process. Chancey works with homeowners to understand their collections, introduce different storage and design possibilities and determine what they actually want from the finished space.
Yes. Vintage Cellars also works with Colorado homeowners on custom sauna projects, either independently or alongside a wine cellar or larger home project.
Start Your Project
Whether you already know exactly what you want or are still figuring out what is possible, Chancey can help you work through your space, collection, storage requirements and design options.
From Vintage Cellars’ Colorado location in Arvada, Chancey works with homeowners throughout Denver, Northern Colorado and the Front Range.
Chancey Ogard
Vice President of National Sales
Vintage Cellars & Saunas
Colorado Sales:
(620) 805-9291
Email:
[email protected]
Colorado Location:
15779 W 83rd Place
Arvada, CO 80007
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