Hi everyone,
My wife and I recently bought a new house and in the process I kind of lost my office space. There isn't a dedicated room like I used to have for a desk and computers. For most people this is no big deal, but I'm kind of a nerd and have 3 servers currently stacked up. They each look like this:
Dimentions: 7" tall, 17" wide, 24" deep
The only real place for these that I can find in the new house is either in the basement (which makes me nervous) or in the living room next to the entertainment center. SWMBO has ok'ed the living room placement as long as I can come up with some way of disguising/storing them. What I'm hoping to do is create an Arts and Crafts/Mission style server rack of sorts. Ideally it would allow the 3 servers to be pulled out on slides (while not disconnecting everything), have doors that would close to mostly obscure the hardware but still allow good airflow to the components. I'm having a hard time combining these requirements into something workable. The things I'm coming up with all seem to have proportions that don't really fit with the Arts and Crafts/Mission style I'm going for (I think it's because the cabinet has to be so deep). For example, I could take something like this and make it fit the dimensions, but it just looks strange when I draw it out being deeper than it is wide.
I've toyed with the idea of making something like the above, but having the doors be fake with the side being the true door, but I'm not sure I want to go down that road quite yet.
I'm open to any and all suggestions (including telling me I'm nuts and to just stick the stuff in the basement).
Thanks!
-Adrian