For some background, I'm renovating a home for myself right now. It's a trailer-shaped home, with a kitchen at one end, a bedroom at the other, and a living room in the middle, with a little square cut out for a bathroom. It's a fairly decent sized living room, with enough room for a table and chairs, bookshelves along the walls, media center, and plenty of room left over. Also, the entire home is being done in a Gentleman's Club/Asian Minimalist style. I'm basically creating a minimalist atmosphere with clean, straight lines, and Japanese-inspired furniture. But, it's going to have a little twist. I want the enitre home to feel somewhat like a library, because I am an avid bibliophile. So, it will have a lot of dark woods, a built-in bookshelf/ humidor/ bar in the living room, leather used in different ways, and so on. It will basically come off as a very clean, comfortable atmosphere. But, it also needs to be technologically up to speed with me. Since I am very much a technophile as well.
So, I need a htpc. I have the flatscreen, and am getting speakers to build into the walls, for invisible surround sound. Now, I just need the components, which will all be built into one unit, with a little eccentricity to boot.
I picked up an old valve control unit from a lng plant that my stepdad tore down and scrapped, and am going to use that as the htpc. It's basically a 2u, maybe more like 2.5u, rackmount case. The plan is to leave on the facade, after cleaning it up a bit, and use the existing knobs and whatnot as rheometers to control the fans, and some switches to control components.
I'll get up some pictures of my progress so far... in a bit.
If you have any suggestions for different things to do with this, that go along with my idea of having an htpc, and all that, just let me know.
-l8a


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