The TV/audio furniture is about 10 cm removed from the wall and is fully open in the back, I can play with a closed lowboard without any heat issues. After long sessions the PS5 gets a bit warm, but not hot. Most of my gaming sessions are only a few hours, so usually I close the lowboard.

For surround sound I use a Sony H9 Inzone Headset, since that one is also compatible with PSVR2 and has decent sound.

I mostly play games where surround sound is not a very big deal. The sound quality from two speakers tends to be much higher per euro invested, also making the room is not that big, so it's difficult to fit decent surround speakers in there.

10 years ago I moved my DVDs, books and older games into its own room and added a small retro corner, where a few of my old consoles (PS1, N64, Xbox, GameCube) are connected to my good old Sony-CRT:

Here are some photos of that room of 2015:

Since then my physical media collections have grown (a lot), so I got 4 more shelves and moved the books into the adjacent room:

The 5 shelves in my "mediathek" are now filled with Blu-rays, console games (up to 7th gen / Wii U), DVDs and HD-DVDs. I also added my 3d-compatible TV for my older consoles with HDMI-output (PS3, Xbox 360, Xbox One X, Wii U and the PS1 Classic).

I didn't realize the hobbit holes from middle-earth were so modern and clean these days.

...Seriously? What's with that door?

...Like dude. That door?

Attic storage room doors - got like 4 of them, 2 in the media room and 1 in each bedroom upstairs.

Everyone reacts the same way lmao

I guess being Australian we don't really have attics or basements, we just run with a larger floor plan or have a larger garage if we need more space.
Part of the issue with attics is our extreme heat, the radiant sun just cooks the ceiling space... Not fun crawling around in the ceiling space chasing fire in thermal insulation during the peak of summer where temperatures could be above 70'C/158'F.

It's still bizarre, why not just a full size door if the "storage" space potentially goes up to the ceiling?

Actually there's two levels of the "Attic".

The 2nd floor of the house has the four small doors which lead to four small storage areas in a attic like area, doesnt lead to the ceiling at all - its a almost medium sized room (a little less than a bedroom) but there's only a small walkable space in the storage area, the rest is just the beams within the house - we were told we could get someone to actually create a room in each one if we want but by default its a small storage area purpose.

I'm planning to get one room built in the future but likely not anytime soon...2024's had so many other costs that I had to delay my plan to build a room.

The actual attic (where the AC tank/filter and Water tank is located and up to the ceiling) is actually above the 2nd floor of the house like a usual attic - there's a staircase that comes out when we pull down the door.

That's probably the advantage of a low population density in Australia.

• Australia as a whole has a population density of 3 people per km² (9 people per sq mi)
• Texas as a whole has a population density of 43 people per km² (114 people per sq mi)
• Germany as a whole has a population density of 243 people per km² (628 people per sq mi)

Of course, in Australian towns and cities the population density is much higher (and probably closer to comparable town sizes of other countries).

I didn't post my PC setup yet.

I used to deliver furniture and tvs at a rent to own store.  This is pretty accurate.

For whomevers setup this is, I'll give a Nice one. Sure that's all ya need, no need to be getting all fancy. Could use a more comfortable chair and sweeping up so the dust doesn't effect the hardware wouldn't be a bad idea, I'd reckon but if all is working then I see very little wrong in the picture. They're making what they have work.