Interesting challenge. Years ago it was cool to showcase you tower and the technology inside it. Now I think it would be better if it blended in with your furniture. It’s easy to design for the ultra modern home but face it, most people will probably have traditional furniture so it makes it a bit challenging.
Reminds me of these two products. Home theaters trying to move away from looking like your traditional home theater set up:
Unity HT all-in-one home theater system:
and the IKEA one
Good luck, seems like a cool project.