I'm planning on making a hole in my family room wall that is shared with my garage so that I can put shelves and stick my TiVO, VCR, PS3, Wii, and AV Receiver all together. I'm planning on putting shelf brackets on the garage side of the wall and having shelves on there that come through the wall into the family room but are flush to the wall. Basically all the components would be on the shelf backwards so they face the living room. After that, box the components in with some kind of wood and paint it black on the inside, white on the outside. Once boxed in the components won't get dust from the garage.

My real question is how can I make sure the components don't get over heated inside the enclosure and keep dust and the heat/cold from coming into the family room?

I will submit this question in Home Electronics as well since this pertains to both.

I've attached a picture of what I'm thinking for the enclosure.
Any suggestion or other ideas are more than welcomed!

Measure the deepest unit u are going to put on shelf.

Make a box with sides of 3/4'' plywood 2'' deeper than deepest unit. Make back of cabinet with 1/4'' plywood.

Make shelves 1/2'' less then depth of cabinet.

Use shelf standards to have adjustable shelves.

Frame opening in wall 1/2'' larger then cabinet unit.

Nail cabinet in opening flush with S/R and trim.

As insulation on garage side u can glue on styrofoam.

If u have any questions get back to us.

Chuck