Our Gaming Center

For the longest time, we had a huge DLP rear-projection HD TV. We loved it, because videogames are always sexier on the big screen, but it was massive and huge and stuck out from the way about two & a half feet. In November, our beloved TV died and we had to replace it. Prior to this, we’d had all kinds of trouble figuring out where to put the Xbox 360 and the Wii (on top of the huge telly) and were storing the Wii Fit under the coffee table. We had been planning to drive down to the Ikea warehouse and get a Lerberg shelf to convert into a Mighty Console Tower.

However, the new HDTV had no width in comparison to the old, and we finally decided to “grow up” and get a proper entertainment center for the lovely new telly to live on. Since our apartment is furnished in dark brown woods to accent our cream colored furniture, we chose a low-profile combination of a dark colored wood and glass, similar to this but without the stand in the back or the extra shelf up top.

And now all our gaming consoles are displayed beautifully in the “Gaming Center”, beneath the telly. And the Wii Fit is on the bottom shelf, in all its solitary glory, mocking me any day I fail to use it. In addition, we keep Wiimotes and Nunchucks, as well as spare Xbox 360 controller batteries, stored inside a pretty little wooden box on the coffee table. The kitties have nothing to tempt them into Cord-Chewing Sin, and we can always find our controllers! I prefer this method over the “wall mounted” variety.

As of tonight, we still don’t have a good place to put our GH World Tour drumkit. And there are three GH guitars leaning against walls that could use a more modern storage method – so gamer storage suggestions would be greatly appreciated!