Even before actually joining NeoGAF I followed this thread. I have gotten so many wonderful ideas from here. I've finally acquired my own apartment and have worked to do the best with it that I can. Please don't mind the cable management as I was so excited to finally have everything setup that I didn't bother with it yet. I'm always down for further critiquing of my setup.
Here's some pics:
Here's a quick updated shot of my oak desk with the two drawer pedestals finally in place, all ready and waiting for the gaming PC at the end of this year. Nearly killed us getting them up the stairs. Still can't quite believe I got this lot (plus some extras) for just £10. The A3 Brother printer was free, too.
I've mentioned before that I've bought a new house and with it will, of course, come Gaming Room 2.0. We're still in the middle of rebuilding and renovating, but I wanted to show you all where we're at right now.
I won't bore you with the rest of the house, this room is made to be my gaming room and nothing else. It'll stay open-ceiling as it is now and I've gonna have steps in my bedroom that leads up to the attic, where I'm planning on having all-retro stuff. I didn't have a ladder handy at the time I was taking these pics, so I still owe you some shots from the attic.
I'm still mulling around ideas in my head, but I have some cool ideas already. If any of you wanna share any ideas, I'm very open to them.
Here's where I'm gonna put the TV and modern consoles. The little nook next to the door is gonna be a sort of display cabinet.
Yeah, it's a pretty standard office desk design. The curve helps with the ergonomic comfort.
They're going to have to release a smaller Xbox One if they want me to add one of those...
If the One had BC, sure... The size of a Nintendo console would work, peanut would be great too though.
They're going to have to release a smaller Xbox One if they want me to add one of those...
I was/am planning the exact same thing for my new house.
But both my center channel and the avr I plan on getting would not fit so it was either one or the other. If you need measurements I can help out if that's the same set-up you had in mind.
Once I get everything hooked up I'm going to do a proper set-up post (waiting on tv, avr and I have some wiring to do still)
That's a nice looking setup, but like you said it's problematic when you have two larger pieces of equipment. Currently i've been leaning to the following setup:
Granted, i'm not too happy about the fact that the middle shelves would be positioned asymmetrically and would much rather have a setup akin to yours, but it's the only workable solution i could think of to get both my AVR and center speaker into the unit. I guess i could also lower the shelf on the right to line up with the other two, but i wouldn't want to put either console in such a confined space. I could also put the center speaker on top of the unit like in your pic, but the speaker is so big that it blocks a bit of the the bottom of my TV screen right now, so i'd like to avoid that with a new TV stand. A third solution would be to keep the speaker on top of the unit and get a wall mount for the TV, but i plan on getting a new one in the next six months and i'm not sure whether the same mount would work both with my current TV and the one that will replace it (i haven't decided on a model yet).
Originally i was looking into having a TV unit custom made by a carpenter, but since then i got an Ikea Kallax shelving unit and an Alex/Linnmon desk combo which are placed along the same wall where my TV stand will be, so i would like to keep the furniture uniform and i have my doubts that a carpenter from these parts will have materials that would blend in perfectly with the Ikea units in color and texture. It would also likely cost me twice as much as the Besta stand.
So yes, i would appreciate it if you could take some measurements for me. I'd like to know the heighth and width of a slot when the shelf is right in the middle, as well as when it's placed at the highest/lowest position possible. I assume you're from the US? I'm from Europe, so if you have a tape measure with centimeters that would be great, otherwise i'll just use an online inches to centimeters converter.
You can also buy the next size up of the Besta. I use this to store my game consoles, 3 in a cabinet... everything fits perfectly except you have to pull out my SNES if you want to use the Super Game Boy
Ikea does have measurements online for their products iirc.
I want to buy this TV stand, are you saying there's a larger version of it? Could you link me to the unit you mean?
About the measurements on their website, i've seen those, but they just have the general measurements for the whole unit, what i need are the inner measurements of the slots/compartments and they don't have those listed. I guess i could try to use the former to deduce the latter, but that wouldn't be accurate enough for my needs.
Thank you, any way you can measure it will be fine!
Yours is definitely the aesthetically more pleasing solution, but for the time being i'll have to stick with mine, that is if everything will fit into it in the first place.
Even before actually joining NeoGAF I followed this thread. I have gotten so many wonderful ideas from here. I've finally acquired my own apartment and have worked to do the best with it that I can. Please don't mind the cable management as I was so excited to finally have everything setup that I didn't bother with it yet. I'm always down for further critiquing of my setup.
Here's some pics:
Rig back up and running minus an 8GB stick of RAM, to commemorate:
Sorry for shitty phone pic:
hmm... would 2 surge protectors, each on opposite walls, pose the same problem or is it just in the same outlet?
please forgive my lack of understanding about electric wiring.
I had an "ionizer" type air purifier and it seemed to have a weird effect on dust that just made it clump together more and look worse. There was probably less dust in the air, but more of it visible.
