The final chapter of our closet-fest involves the media closet. We described a lot of the plans in this post; here's what it looks like now. Pardon the hooptie composite, as we don't have a wide-angle lens to fit the whole thing in one shot.
All of the shelving is now in place. For the upper shelves, which will hold extra cables, games, and accessories, we cut down some of our leftover solid shelves to fit exactly. The Elfa pieces come in fixed widths and aren't meant to be cut, but with access to a big saw and a drill it's really quite easy to trim them and then re-drill the necessary holes so they fit on the brackets. The cut side remains unfinished, but if it's up against a wall inside a closet .. meh.
The counter-height solid shelf is serving its purpose well as a charging station, and the lower ventilated shelves are now housing virtually all of our A/V components, with plenty of room to spare. At present the cabling is a bit of a mess, but we're refraining from tightening that up too much until the component arrangement is more finalized. In particular, we need to put in a receiver to hook various pieces together and output to our soon-to-be-installed recessed speakers.
For cooling, we have installed a CoolComponents VS-HFB variable-speed fan with a temperature sensor near where the hottest components are likely to be, somewhat above the baseboard level. We don't yet need to run it, thankfully (and if we never do, all the better) but it's good to have just in case.
The "door" to the closet is just a white curtain for now. We were dissatisfied with the way the proposed framing for sliding doors was going to work, and are considering other options. Top on our list is a barn door of some kind.
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