Seems like a proper geek house would not only have the library/gaming room, but also the secret passage in the bookshelves that at least on of our posters has really built. The secret room could be for collectibles storage or a server room if needed.
I have the bookshelves everywhere and a dedicated computer room/office but I don’t game enough anymore to dedicate a room to it. My office is also, where the bulk of my Yankee stuff is up on the wall, along with a huge number of computer parts and books and my wife’s cookbooks.
In my old house, I actually did. The table was left standing, a 386 with an ancient workhorse HP LaserJet III was dedicated to printing BattleTech mech sheets. All my gaming books and figures where stored in this room and it would only get cleaned up for Holidays and occasional football games.
In my current house, my basement has a large dedicated wood shop, a den, a large 3 tiers train table setup and a 9’ antique pool table with enough room around it that the cues cannot hit any walls or obstructions.
For my occasional gaming, I set up a folding table in my family room and I have a good PC hooked up to a 17” flat panel and a 37” 1080p LCD TV to display maps and images on. It works great. This is also the room furthest from the bedrooms, so we can be noisy and not keep my family awake. It works well.
I would ideally like to a dedicated room with three large LCD screens and the small private one and a large sturdy table and ready bookshelves. However, this is nothing I could see myself actually doing.
I find a mixed environment of wireless and wired cat 5 is fine. For phones, a single central station with 6 handsets beats any wired phone system.
My bedroom has an entire wall that is floor to ceiling bookshelves designed to accommodate a huge number of paperbacks and a high shelf for hard covered books. My living room has another wall that is floor to ceiling books these are reference books. This room also has a decent PC set up with office for the kids to use. This one is wireless, it does not need a lot of speed. My family room has some corner shelves with my D&D books (1st edition mainly). Our laundry/½ bath and the main bathroom have small bookshelves over the toilets. My kid’s rooms have more bookshelves and of course, even the basement has some more books.
Therefore, I think the only thing I am really missing is the secret room; instead, we have our own cave off the basement. This is almost as good. Actually, it is a weird little storage space under our front porch that has a low entrance to get in and rough cement walls. We just call it the cave and use it for storage. I have no clue why it was built.
Jim
[sub]And I know peole like this.[/sub]