Per teg's request: A healthy, budget-conscious alternative to being a stylish motherfucker is living in a household where old, crappy furniture is never thrown out!
I'm pretty sure this entertainment center predates me. Left slots were probably made to hold a VCR, a record player, a stereo, and LPs. Top-right was intended for cassettes, maybe; right-center was for a TV (with built-in swivel-stand), bottom-center was for VHS tapes. If you're a trendy consumer like me, however, all that tech is deprecated! I now use this to hold all my archival books, games, and CDs, with the TV-cubby holding some of the larger and more unwieldy entries in my collection.
In case you can't tell from the shape, this is a busted chairbase I use for resting my keyboard whenever I play a bitchin' drum setlist in Rock Band. The cover-crap-up-with-blankets technique is tried-and-true; I also have a couple of boxes I covered with a hand-knitted yarn blanket I used as a petting platform, back when this household had cats! (currently using that as a nighttable)
If you can get past the assorted fatness in Junpei TV's reflection, you'll notice I've repurposed a standalone record-player stand as a place to put a 19-inch JVC D-series televison (with the aid of some folded-up cardboard on which the bulk of the TV can rest). Underneath is a set of wires tangled enough to undoubtedly kill me, one day~
Behind it is an awful, awful painting done by my aunt in her artistic career's formative years! It serves the purpose of covering a basement chimney vent, which is probably filled to the brim with spiders. :(
If you're stuck for wall decor, consider taking anything bigger than an instruction manual that comes in your videogames' packaging and throwing it up on your wall! It may be "wahjah" (as elitist jerks like to put it) but I find it's better than empty space~