I'm not going to preface this.

When we bought our house, I finally had tons of room to display my game collection. Big, deep shelves that were almost as long as I am.

I had so much room, I could arrange the games AND throw in boxes, displays, and so on for the aesthetic appeal.

As time went on, I started running out of room to maintain functional and non-functional collection stuff. Boxes were relegated to the attic, one at a time.

The "final straw" was when my cousin died and left me his collection. All of the sudden, I had to find space for another 700 games. The remaining superficial and extraneous bullshit went straight to the attic, and games were stacked 2-3 deep on the shelf (makes it hard to scan your games at a glance to locate one).

What direction would you take? Keep the "artful" look, or go for function over form?