Kijanki:
Parenting!!!
Time consuming, but also quite rewarding.
Matt:
A budget and basic taste preferences may help gather better advice.
If you look @ my system description you will see that all the electronics are well protected.
However, if I were to place the electronics in the listening room, which is also our living room, I would modify a real piece of furniture to house the gear as I've yet to see a Hi-Fi rack/cabinet I'd want to look @ on a daily basis.
If the budget is on the lower side consider now obsolete furniture quality wardrobes once produced to hide older/large cathode ray tube TV's.
I still see them @ the local thrifts for very little money and they are deep enough (many with additional shelving) to hold a whole system plus extra stuff.
If you want a lower profile look @ credenza/sideboard type cabinets with front opening doors.
We use an old Japanese Tansu cabinet to store CD's (it holds 1200+ and the CD's are placed upright with the labels showing, in its shallow drawers).
Before (the CD's) is was generaly used to store small crap.
Think outside the box.
