12 years ago when we moved into our house we finished off the basement into an entertainment center. A few years later I moved into the basement along with the 53" TV and couch etc. I share my room with the laundry room and hot water heater/furnace next door. Those areas have so far remained unfinished. We finally got around to installing a new furnace and central air. Now we are finishing off the rest of the basement by adding a bathroom where the unfinished laundry room currently is.

Two small closets were built in my room to enclose the gas and water meters from view. Those are currently being borded up with dry wall as they have also remained unfinished. With the help of a friend I was able to run cat 6 around my house to the various computers around my house. All of the wires are centrally run to one of these closets. As soon as the drywall is done I will be installing a few servers and all of my network hardware with a few UPS's. This should keep the noise to a minimum and save me some space as well. I will post some pictures later of the progress and the finished results.

Here is the list of devices to go in the "server closet" so far.

My previous PC, a P4 with 2.5GB ram running XP to serve as a Bittorrent auto downloader via RSS and accessiable via a web interface from anywhere.
An old Dell PC from back when they used RD-Ram. It is running as an Ubuntu LAMP server and will be used as a test bed for my web sites
A really old Dell PC that will be used as a testing box for freeBSD builds for firewalls/NAS servers
A ALIX2c3 embeded board (amd geode 500Mhz 256MB 1GB flash drive) running PFSense, a freeBSD baised firewall/router/VPN software
A D-Link green 8-port Gigibit router (which quickly ran out of ports and may need to be upgraded to 16 ports)
3 APC UPS's will help to keep the network up as well as some of the more important computer systems.
Still to be built/bought is a 2TB+ RAID5 NAS server. As soon as I figure out what hardware I am using and get the rest of the network/servers up this will go up.
Stick around for pictures of the build progress/updates.