Do you want to upgrade the way you watch movies or play video games in your home? Well, with an entertainment center, you can. At the same time, you’re adding unique storage solutions for a variety of different electronics, accessories, and other belongings. Read on to find out more about entertainment centers and how The Kitchen Center can help you design the perfect one.
What is an entertainment center?
An entertainment center is essentially a shelving unit that is designed to house your television plus a variety of other entertainment equipment and accessories. This may include:
- TV box or receiver (as required to watch cable, for example)
- DVD or Blu-Ray player
- DVDs and Blu-Rays
- One or more video game consoles
- Video games
- Board games or tabletop games
- Accessories such as remotes, controllers, and HDMI cables
Entertainment centers are typically found in the living room, although they may also be placed in bedrooms if you like to watch TV or play video games in bed. Wherever they are, they need to be positioned in front of or close to electrical sockets.
They are often made up of open shelving with shelves of various different heights and widths, plus a larger space at the center for the television. However, they can also incorporate cabinets with doors, which can especially be useful at floor level to stop young children or pets from getting into your storage. Entertainment centers can even be built into wardrobes with sliding doors so that you can conceal and reveal the storage center when you choose
Why do you need one?
As well as creating a kind of home cinema aesthetic and experience, the main purpose of an entertainment center is to better organize your various technologies and accessories, helping to keep your home clutter-free and making it easier to find what you’re looking for. They can also help to keep your home tidier by improving cable management, with all of your cables better organized and perhaps hidden within the entertainment center.
Entertainment center design ideas
You should have an idea of what you are going to store in your unit before choosing or designing one. This will help you to decide how many sections you require and what dimensions they need to be. If you’re going to be storing a lot of DVDs or video games, for example, then measure the height of their cases to help decide how tall these sections need to be. Will you be willing to use the depth of the unit to stack boxes in front of each other, or would you prefer to have every case on show, making them easier to access?
These are just a few of the things you need to consider, but we can help with the rest. If you want to add a custom entertainment center to your home and diversify your storage space, then contact The Kitchen Center for the design and installation of custom storage systems around Winston Salem, NC.