How organized is your home entertainment center and computer area?

[yoda313]

I guess this could also split off into your computer work area as well

So do you have everything neatly sorted and have all the wires tucked away? Can you reach out and grab what you want in less than a minute? Do you have a database set up to keep track of everything? Is your video game area taking over your movie collection?

I must admit mine isn't in red hot shape.... In fact I've uh, misplaced my dvds of Galaxy Quest and Mystery Men for a few months now...

Anyway - how dedicated are you in keeping everything tidy and orderly? I'm at 50% I'd say - I can locate most stuff I need but it takes awhile. I have the dvds in several cases of course but they aren't always as organized as I want them to be. My games are in pretty good shape though

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[MJA]

stuff everywhere.





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[kiki]

I make mja look like a librarian

[Noahtuck]

ET center, in living room, everything is perfectly neat, where it should be.....
Game consoles, cd's, dvd's, sound system, all cables hidden nice and neat, ect. ect. ect.

Now if ya wanna talk about the PC area.....

Please... i put MJA to shame!!!!!!!

takes me 20 minutes digging through stacks of stuff and then i still might not find what i'm looking for
But i have 3 desk's in a row with 3 PC's and stuff everywhere :P
But they are in my basement in a dedicated room to keep all my work isolated from the rest of the house....

[edDV]

For me, organization mostly relates to finding things on the drives. It doesn't need to be pretty in the man cave. Women by invite only. And they better not move anything!

A TV organization expert is my worst nightmare. I'd never find anything again.

[Noahtuck]

For me, organization mostly relates to finding things on the drives. It doesn't need to be pretty in the man cave. Women by invite only. And they better not move anything!
A TV organization expert is my worst nightmare. I'd never find anything again.

A friend of mine was just telling me the other day how one of her son's friend's walked off with some of her instalation disc's for program's, she keep's them in a binder.... i was like please!!!
My kid's would kill any of their friends that even went in the same room with my pc's, let alone touch anything... for fear of what could happen to them not one person i know even dare's to THINK about touching anything that has to do with my PC's My kids are 21 & 19 & they are still afraid to touch anything before asking me & then they say, "I know you're going to say no... but can i borrow this disc ?"

It look's like a tornado came through... but it's my tornado :P
It's kind of funny because it's the only room in my whole house that look's like an earthquake hit it... the rest of my house i am seriously anal about....
If you move it... you better put it back where it was!!!!!
I have even been called OCD because of it But hey... you need to have some disorder to keep sane 8)

But the drive thing... yeah.... over 400gigs split into multiple drives and god only know's how many folders... and i know exactly where everything is

[fritzi93]

One must establish priorities. I know precisely where all my DVDs are. Everything backed up to optical media is organized, also all install discs. Everything on this computer is rigorously organized.

But as to my domain, the computer room and den (entertainment center)...My wife calls me a swine. She's right.

[edDV]

Right you are. Things are in their place for a reason and if you ever need to search by date that is what dust depth is for

[TheFamilyMan]

"A place for everything and everything in its place". The down side is that pulling or installing a component it is a major pain in the rear. I have to use a cable puller to route power cords, and blind plugging of cables. As to computer media organization: I have neat boxes and racks but no cataloging of their contents; no one is allow to touch them but me.

[Epicurus8a]

After living with messy desk for several months, I just got things perfectly organized. Unfortunately it won't stay that way for long.

[ozymango]

Entertainment center in front room: Everything in perfect order, dusted weekly, all remotes arranged neatly on coffee table (7 remotes). DVDs back in boxes or large binder next to coffee table. I live with my fiancee and I keep it very neat because it makes her happy and if it's messy, she's not happy. And if she's not happy, I'm not happy.

"My" computer room (we have a two-bedroom flat, one is bedroom, one is "computer" room) is nominally mine but she has a desk in there so while she keeps her stuff organized perfectly, my area is a bit ... in flux, organizationally speaking. I just have so many drives and cables, and am working on so many film/video/slide/print/editing projects, that there's stuff all over the place. There's definitely a method to my madness, but it's not pretty. :P

And she's totally cool with my area being exactly like I have it, she just closes the door so she doesn't have to see it. Which is one of the reasons I'm marrying her in the first place!

[ZAPPER]

Computer room/office/editing bay?

Total freaking disaster! I have seen better looking landslides and landslides are an everyday happenstance around here if I touch anything. Sloping heaps and inverted pyramids of obsolete mail, printouts and empty cups. I do know the general area of most everything though, luckily the room is only like 12 x 12


No real entertainment center though, just a TV and DVD player or TV and VCR set up in different rooms. Stereo is in the computer room/office but I seldom jam out anymore at home I save that for the commute.

[vico1]

ET center, in living room, everything is perfectly neat, where it should be.....
Game consoles, cd's, dvd's, sound system, all cables hidden nice and neat, ect. ect. ect.

Now if ya wanna talk about the PC area.....

But they are in my basement in a dedicated room to keep all my work isolated from the rest of the house....

Yup...entertainment center in the living room is picture perfect...which belies the "PC Room"
I have upstairs...or the "Bears Cage" as the wife puts it!...

I'll quote her..."Do you really need all of that stuff?" (her eyes say "Junk")
My short "I don't want to get into it, because you don't understand" answer..."Yes"... :P