I made a simple but significant improvement to my media cabinet. Inside the body of the cedar chest is a pair of flat panels which slide left and right on riders, allowing access to the bottom area of the chest but also providing a convenient place to keep the odds and ends needed for a media cabinet -- things like remote controls, Wii remotes, keyboards, thumb drives, hard drives, cameras, and USB cables. In fact the sliding panel is so convenient it became cluttered with too many things, each important enough to keep handy, yet the most important ones of all were lost amongst the others. At the same time, certain remote controls tended to float around the living room, or on top of the cabinet, or sometimes inside the cabinet, and that lack of a place to keep these oft-wanted devices has caused much gnashing of teeth and rending of clothes.

I also found Datapro which manufactures custom one-off computer-port panels in any configuration. They are pricey, but might be perfect when I want to build the internals of this chest.
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