To provide a housing cabinet of which the assembly/installation is easy, which can freely change the housing layout of articles to be housed such as an AV equipment, and at the same time, is excellent in appearance as well.

A housing section 14 connects side plates 12 with each other at an arbitrary height, i.e., the attaching position of the housing section 14 in the vertical direction of the side plates 12 can be set at a desired position (height). Therefore, the housing layout for articles such as the AV equipment can freely be changed. Also, a pair of the right and left side plates 12 are constructed by the housing section 14, and a self-standing type housing cabinet 10 which does not need an underlying construction can be obtained. In addition, since a back plate 16 can fix a heavy article on the surface through a fixing means 34 such as nails or screws, a wall hanging type large screen thin television or a shelf plate 36 and so forth can be fixed at a desired position on the surface of the back plate 16.