We bought this as our new house has a small wine room (6 x 8) with french doors to it. This room has no vents for AC or Heat.
The first thing that caught our eye with this was that it was good in a small space with little noise and no drastic heat output. The second thing was the amount of bottles it holds, and last was the colors of the lights :)
We placed this as far back in the room as we can, while leaving some space for airflow behind it. that room has not been warm, let alone hot, the entire time we have it running, and it's currently holding nearly 130 bottles at this time
we don't leave the doors opened, or cracked at all. They are closed 100% of the time, unless we're going to get a bottle for dinner.
The value for the item vs amount spent....we bought during the 'it's hard to get everything' time, and as such, we saw this item go up in price a few times...so i don't think the value so much is horrible, but our delay caused us to spend a little more than when we started our time to research.
We don't regret the purchase, just wished we could have done it sooner.
PS - the Delivery guys DID bring it into the house for us. I've seen some people say they drop it on your driveway and wish you 'the best of luck'. So i was happy they did that. Once we got it off the crate, moving it to its new location (VLP floors) wasn't difficult at all.
