Audio and media storage cabinets provide a safe and attractive way to organize and display your home theater system and your collections of music, film and video games. Media storage comes in many styles, with different materials and features to suit your taste, home decor and budget. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Measure the available space for the new audio and media storage cabinets. The dimensions of storage furniture appear on the box, or you can quickly measure a display model in the store.
2. Take a quick inventory of the equipment you already own. If your home theater consists of an audio/video receiver, DVD or Blu-Ray player and a widescreen TV, you may only need a TV stand with a two-shelf storage cabinet underneath. If you have a CD player, tape deck, VCR and a gaming system, with a snake's nest of cables behind them, an audio component rack next to a TV stand might be the best option. If you expect to expand your system later, look at storage cabinets with enough space so you'll have room to grow.
3. Look for audio storage cabinets that come with glass or wooden doors or some other type of cover for the components inside. Glass doors allow you to display your equipment. For a tidy presentation in traditional decor, a wooden storage cabinet with solid wood doors will close to hid all of your components and present only the facade of a fine piece of furniture.
Whichever you choose, doors matter because audio equipment generates a lot of static electricity that draws dust and lint like a magnet. Doors keep you equipment cleaner.
4. Make sure the audio cabinet is well-ventilated in the back, with holes for routing audio-video cables and power cords. The A/V receiver generates a fair amount of heat, especially at loud volumes, so you need a ventilated cabinet.
5. Think about your collecting habits and future storage requirements when choosing media cabinets. Modular systems work well for growing movie and music collections because you can add storage as you need to expand.
Be aware that if you plan to increase your collection substantially, the brand and style of cabinet you buy today may not be available next year. So if your 300-DVD cabinet fills up, you may not be able to find a matching cabinet to go with it later. You'll be left with the choice of either mismatched storage cabinets or buying a new, larger cabinet.
6. Look at storage units with adjustable shelving. CDs and DVD and Blu-ray cases are all different heights when arranged on a shelf like books. You need to be able to adjust shelves to hold different types of media. As with audio cabinets, you can buy enclosed media storage with doors to conceal your collection or open cabinents to display all the titles.
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