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With the advances in home electronics and entertainment, it’s no wonder our homes are beginning to look like DVD rental stores. If your house is like most, you have a large collection of DVD’s and CD’s and as great as they are, having them scattered about is not the designer touch you are going for when decorating your home. CD’s and DVD’s are so small and slim, you can amass quite a collection before you realize that storing them has become problematic and before you know it, your house looks like the corner movie rental shop. You are certainly not going to get rid of the DVD’s and CD’s, though, so what are you to do? How about investing in a DVD storage cabinet!

Keeping tidy with DVD storage units is a snap. Designed to house all your DVD’s and CD’s, these storage units offer a great solution to keeping your movies and music in an easy to view, space saving cabinet with ease of access. Most units have doors that when closed shut away clutter and chaos from your view. Imagine how much nicer your living room will look when your collections of music and movies are not on view constantly. And, if you chose a unit with glass doors, your collection will be well organized and easy to view while still contained within a small footprint of space. Another advantage of the DVD cabinet is that it will help keep your collections safe from scratches and dust that would certainly accumulate if you left them out in the open.

DVD storage cabinets also offer you a great way to keep your collections in order. Whether you group them by artist or alphabetically or by some other method of your choosing, keeping your CD’s and DVD’s organized makes it easier to choose what  you want to watch or listen to since you won’t waste time rummaging through your collections trying to remember what you own. Everything is right there, organized and ready to use, at your fingertips sitting dust and scratch free on your DVD storage shelves. Imagine deciding to watch a movie and browsing neatly rowed titles rather than the DVD shuffle you’re used to doing when going through your movies!

Whether you choose a wall mounted storage system or a floor standing model, there is a DVD storage unit to fit your space requirements and your decor. From large to small, a corner or wall unit, wood or metal, doors or no doors, there are a variety of choices, styles and sizes available to accommodate your movies and your music. If you want to go all out and really give your space a designer boost, you can even buy a unit that will house your television, DVD and VCR, and any gaming systems and games you might have in addition to your DVD’s and CD’s. Look for units at discount retailers, furniture stores, appliance centers, and from retailers online. Research the makes and models you like and do some comparison shopping to make sure you are getting the best price and the highest quality for your money. Metal units are built to last and require little in the way of cleaning, and aluminum units are lightweight but sturdy. Just dust the surface to remove fingerprints and that is all there is to it. Natural wood units will be longer lasting and more substantial than pressed wood or particle board units, but they will cost more so you want to make sure you have shopped around for the best price you can get. The care for wooden units is as simple as their metal counterparts, just dust and clean the glass doors if your unit has them, and it is done.

No matter what style you choose, a DVD storage cabinet will help you tidy up your home and will make movie night more fun for everyone. By keeping your movies organized and close at hand, you will be able to find exactly what you want every time. No more movie nights gone bad because the audience grows impatient waiting while you dig through random piles of DVD’s to find the one you want. No more disappointment of finally finding the DVD you spent ages looking for only to find it has been scratched beyond repair because it was sitting out on the coffee table like a coaster. No more wondering if you still have that particular CD or DVD, they are all right there in their new home, the DVD cabinet!

Organization in the home is key to a less stressful and generally organized life. We all spend a great deal of time working, so when we come home we want to spend as little time looking after the home as possible. Dusty surfaces and cluttered work spaces all add up to one thing, at that is extra work. They say that a tidy home makes for a tidy head, and we believe that this is certainly the case.

If, like us you work from home and spend a lot of time there, you will appreciate the need for organization. Generally the two main areas of the home that need organizing are the; study (or study area) and the music and DVD areas. In these areas, particularly the study there is a lot of life admin – paper-based clutter that always seems to accumulate first just inside the front door after the post has been and then in the study where it is waiting to be filed. Similarly, with the DVD areas, there is a great deal of coming and going when you swap and change the choice of CD. We shall focus on this area to help you make your space a more organized one.

By purchasing a DVD storage cabinet, you will be making the first step to a more organized life. Owning one of these will not only keep the clutter at bay, but will also keep dust to a minimum – allowing you to use that time on more important things, like relaxing! DVD storage cabinets come in all shapes and sizes, and which ever one you choose to purchase will have to fit in the space that you have. Here at LiveIn|LiveOut we have compiled a few alternative ideas from the boring cd DVD storage cabinets from the past. This will hopefully inspire you into creating an organized media centre that will be the envy of your friends and family.

Wall Hanging CD and DVD Storage Cabinets

If you want to create more space in your lounge for other pieces of furniture or seating, then you may want to consider a wall hanging unit. This is a great solution whether you decide to have it covered with glass or just a simple shelving unit. Out of choice, we would always choose a covered option in this case as CD’s and DVD’s have a tendency of getting extremely dusty – and they are not the easiest things to clean with all their nooks and crannies! But if you are not bothered about this, amazon.com do a really stylish Prepac Cherry Storage Unit. The shelves are adjustable so that they can fit both DVD’s and CD’s into it, making it ideal for the customer to decide on how many shelves they want for the varying types of media. The unit itself looks like it is floating on the wall and won’t visually impact too much on your space.

There are plenty of covered wall hanging options too – whether you wanted to opt for a glass sliding mechanism, a couple of glass hinged openings or just a solid wooden set of doors, there are plenty to choose from to suit your needs. Another example of this type of covered wall hanging storage is available from amazon again; Triple Sliding Glass Door Mission Hanging Wall Storage Cabinet in dark cherry will not only compliment your home décor but will also make your DVD and CD collection more accessible.

Floor Standing CD and DVD Storage Cabinets

If space isn’t altogether an issue and you would quite like to bring more furniture into your lounge, you may want to look at  floor standing dvd storage units. You can purchase lockable units – which is a great security feature of some units in all manner of materials. If, for example your home has a common theme of material, you will probably wish to go for something similar to match. There are some beautiful traditional designs made from solid wood will be more in keeping with a more traditionally decorated home. Salvoweb.com specializes in reclaimed furniture, if you are on the look out for something a little different and more individual. This too, is a great way of adding a bit of personality into your home.

Making Storage into Art

Just because your CD and DVD collection is functional, why not make it into a piece of art?  A  CD storage solution by Nauris Kalinauskas of Contraforma will create a fantastic artistic focal point into your space as well as act as a useful piece of storage. Its lattice work shelves designed on the axis brings a new way to display your CD’s and DVD’s. This type of storage comes in many variations and ranges from wall hung pieces to floor standing solutions in different proportions. Be sure to check this one out!