I recently did a little bit of cleanup on my home network and have some photos in an album here:
https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/3485106/1/Office%20Closet?h=2f7cde#/
My network isn't too complicated and sounds like it's along the lines of what you're looking to do.
I had cat 6 cable run when my house was being built, I have 4 runs to my home office, 4 to my living room, 2 to each bedroom, and 1 to the kitchen. All these runs terminate in the closet of my home office. In the pictures, you can see the runs coming into an enclosure in my closet wall (from the top right), where they get punched down into a 24-port cat 6 patch panel that I got from Monoprice. I've got 15 cat 6 patch cables also purchased from Monoprice that connect the patch panel to my switches and router. Right now, I have 2 8-port switches that are both connected to my gigabit router (Netgear WNDR3800) leaving me 7 ports on each switch. All my devices (including my Windows Home Server box that's in this closet, as well) are currently connected to one switch to minimize trips to the router for local traffic. Because I've got more cable runs than I have ports on a switch (eventually looking to upgrade to a single switch to handle everything), I do have two secondary runs connected straight to the router.
You can see the connections from the patch panel to the router/switches in the pictures. The patch cables on the left side of the enclosure go out the top of the enclosure and through a foot or so of wall and come out the small opening that's visible just behind my modem, router, and switches.
For what it's worth since it does factor into the overall system, I also have VOIP phone through my ISP. The entire setup is as follows: cable comes onto the premises and is run to the closet where it connects to the modem (it's difficult to see but the cable comes out the same small enclosure the patch cables do and is routed to my UPS for surge protection before it's connected to the modem). I've got a 1' cable connecting the modem to the router and two additional 1' cables connecting the router to the switches, as well as a 5' or so to connect to the Windows Home Server (my printer connects to the WHS box via USB and lets me share the printer to all the machines on the network). The rest of the connections to the router/switches are the patch cables from the patch panel in the enclosure. That gets me gigabit connectivity on all the network jacks in my house. Because I've got the VOIP phone, my modem also has a phone jack on it. When my house was built, a cat 6 line was run back to the service origin outside the house where all my phone lines terminate. Using just two I think of the twisted pairs in the cat 6 cable, I'm able to get my VOIP phone connected up to all the phone jacks in the house.
I enjoy the setup greatly as it lets me do as much as possible with wired ethernet as I can, the only wireless devices are laptops, tablets, phones, and mp3 players. All my PCs, Xbox, Blu-ray player, etc. are wired. It's not perfect, no, in a perfect world I'd like to have all the phone lines and cable lines run to the closet as well rather than to a box on the outside of my house. I didn't know what I know now about that sort of stuff when I had the house built or I'd have had the electrician do it a little differently. Realistically, though, I don't know that I'll ever change drastically from the current setup so it's probably not a big deal, just the perfectionist in me would rather it be different. About the only change I can foresee any time soon is dropping the VOIP service from my ISP when the current promotional rate expires later this year, and switching to something like a NetTalk Duo that can be kept in the closet and still connect up to the phone system.
I know that's long-winded but hopefully it's a bit of a help. I'll be glad to answer any questions I can, but I'm a novice when it comes to this stuff compared to some of the guys in the forum.