Equipment Storage

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Hello all. Just stumbled across these forums and can't believe what a great resource they are!

I have just bought a 1960s detached house with a single story garage/kitchen extension. HQ has suggested that I turn the garage into a small media room/cinema - there was no way I was going to let this opportunity slip past!

The garage is being professionally converted to a habitable room, the kitchen is being redone, some walls taken down, etc and everything is starting in about a week.

As the garage is not a perfect square/rectangle (it's about 3.2m wide at the back, tapering to about 2.3m at the front where the window will be and 3.3m long).

Since the room is not that big - I need to be clever about maximising the space. I plan on having a 3-seater sofa bed along the longest wall (at the back of the room) facing the window where I want to have a blackout blind with a motorised projector screen. The will not be a permenant TV in place (everything will be displayed via a ceiling-mounted projector).

I need to shoehorn the following gadgets into this room or else find somewhere else to put them:

Blu-ray player, Sky HD box, Wii, PS3, Apple TV, Mac Mini, Drobo.

I can't have them in a low-level storage unit under the window (as there will be a folding outwards door into the room to the right of the drop-down screen as you look at it.

There are two potential places for this stuff:

1) Under the stairs. The staircase is just the other side of the wall from the garage.

2) In the current pantry cupboard. This is a 2.3m tall by 80cm wide built-in cupboard that it pretty much behind where the longest wall of the garage is. It would be relatively easy to get an HDMI cable, etc out of it and into the garage and it's my Missus' favoured place to stick the gadgets. My only concern is that the gas meter is currently in it on the floor. How hot is this cupboard likely to get? I don't want to explode the gas!

I'll post some pictures later today when I go up to the house to better illustrate everything.

Thanks,