My media center thing is on the nearby wall and it has on top of it all my bins of DVD's and i'm talking like 6 or 7 FULL bins and then theres some stacks on top of those because I ran out of room in the bins (I organize them by action, cartoon, anime, drama...and so on). On one side is my like idk 15 year old tv..love that thing. But it's to big for the space so it ends up overhanging the "box" like area and when I have to change consoles I have to drag it out and struggle to plug in the RCA cables into the back (I know I need a switcher box..I'm just not sure which one I need and I don't have a ton of money). On the otherside are almost all of my systems. It also has 3 shelves. The first shelf has my N64, SNES and NES. The second shelf is GameCube, Dreamcast and Sega Gen. The last shelf is Xbox and PS3. Now on the topic of my PS3...I think being in this semi enclosed shelf is overheating it, so I have to move it and store it in a different place..where I have no idea. Oh and of course all these wires for these consoles? All fed around the back of the consoles and out to the front of the shelf on the righthand side, so I have a mess of wires. I would try to get holes drilled into the back of the media thing but I wouldn't be able to access the cables then. So I need help with storing/organizing them too.
And don't get me started on my handhelds. Basicly all of my gameboy games (GB,GBC and GBA) are in a travel/carrying case that I have to unzip and sort through to find a game, it also holds a gameboy of any size, so I use it to hold my original GBC. My PSP and games are in a small...bin of sorts which has been filled so now I have to stack games on top of it. My DS and games are just laying out, along with my original Gameboy, Gameboy Pockets x 2, an extra Gameboy Color, a broken GBA I need to fix and sell, a GB SP I need to sell and my Gameboy Advance. Oh and my two Game Gears and all my Game Gear games. And all of these are on a table behind me I actually use as a craft/repair/cleaning work table thing. I ran out of space so I really need help storing these. I only have a few ideas for storing my Gameboy games...all of them. One I could do what someone on here did and that's to get a card collecting binder and put them in those plastic things or kinda do what someone else did on here as well and put them in something I hang on the wall. But instead of a golf ball thing, I would use a spice rack like thing, which if you lay the games on their side, they do slide in. But that involves more work and might not fit all my games.
Ah and I should mention that besides the main bedroom area I have a small almost walk in closet type room that I turned into a computer room. That is where my work table and handhelds are. But besides that I just have my PC desk and a large shelf hanging on the wall I use for my Sailor Moon collection and other figurines.
I'm looking into getting a ikea cubby like thing: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70193745/ so I can lay it down sideways on the floor and use it to store extra gaming items like games/controllers/wires and consoles I don't play as often. But at the same time I sort of want my computer room to become my main gaming room, so I might bring all my stuff I do use often into here and put all the stuff I don't use in my media center in my bedroom, since I have an extra TV laying around that still works but isn't plugged in because I don't have space for it. Anyways I'm also in need of a TV stand that has storage below it for consoles. But that's small enough to fit next to my computer desk.
Like I said in the first bit, I have 0 cash. What little money I do have comes from doing random things for my parents. So whatever ideas you come up with have to be free/cheap and easy to do. I always keep my eyes open at yard sales and thrift stores for cheap furniture I could reuse somehow, but it's hard finding exactly what I want. Like with the Ikea thing, it's to expensive to buy from Ikea and when I do find them at yard sales they are almost always overpriced. And I can't build anything because I'm scared to death of power tools.
Maybe this is hopeless but hey a girl can dream right?
Some pics:
- All my consoles (except my PS1 and PS2)
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- My old TV. The stacks of games on top need to be tested, the plastic thing next to it holds controllers/extra wires. The stack on top of it is DVD's to be tested.
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- The mess of wires, note the blue tape. This is how I tell which ones go to which system.
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- The top of my media center. I have to many DVD's...I need help with these as well lol.
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by it.