My tiny storage closet turned into command center.
This has been a fun personal project! From a tiny Storage Closet to The Mounting Man Command Center What you’re looking at started as a plain 74” x 42.5” x 95” high storage room. It's just a storage room on the floor of my apartment complex I pay $25 a month for. ...they don't know I have this sort of thing going on in here. Now, it’s my personal Command Center — a full build-out experiment in creating cinematic home workspaces for professionals who want something way more inspiring than a beige cubicle. The back wall features black wood slats with LED lighting perfectly fit within them. The left wall is covered in acoustic panels and two IKEA shelves — holding a couple of DeWalt drills, a mesh Wi-Fi router, my very first Black & Decker drill I bought for $39.95 at Target to start The Mounting Man, (mounted inside a DeWalt Tough System 2.0 case), a painted plaster cast of Malia's foot, and a vintage camera. On the right wall, the bottom half has more acoustic panels, topped with chicken mesh wire for that gritty, tactical aesthetic. The floor is tile that Malia and I got from Menards--she laid most of the tile herself. The entire space is wrapped in black wallpaper, with a black desk, sleek chair, and a 43” TV monitor backed by blue LEDs. A black marker board finishes it off for brainstorming or sketching new Mounting Man ideas. Here’s the fun part: I designed the entire concept using the TV accent wall visualizer I had Google Gemini build a couple weeks back. I simply uploaded a photo of the empty storage room (the “before” pic here), gave it the dimensions, and told it to make a spy-style command center in my signature aesthetic. What it generated was nearly identical to what you see now. I just bought the parts, mounted them all, and built it. This marks a new chapter for The Mounting Man — expanding beyond TV installations into full accent wall and office build-outs. The back wall of this command center is basically a miniature TV accent wall, proving what’s possible even in tight spaces.