I have a similar situation, and having tried and ruled-out MC's various streaming and synch options, here's what I do:
MUSIC-PC is where my library is managed. I do all ripping, tag updating, etc. But I never play the library on this machine. This is the master music library, so it is never updated from the MC "remotes".
AV-PC is in my family room, where we listen via MC. But it's playback-only. We never edit or rip on this machine, so synch is just one-way.
MOBILE-PC is a small laptop that usually lives in a vehicle, where we listen to MC music.
There are also a couple of iPods.
Key ingredients: All the PCs use drive M: for MC library, music and cover art files. (This is much easier than doing mass path changes in each instance of a library.)
All tags are stored in the music files. All cover art is stored in a separate folder, not in the music files (helps keep the overall storage much smaller).
I use a backup program (SyncBackSE but most would work) to keep it all synchronized.
Every night the backup runs on AV-PC and pulls new/changed files from MUSIC-PC drive M: to AV-PC drive M: (And deletes anything removed from MUSIC-PC.) It copies all MC's library files (to get the database, field definitions, view designs, and playlists), the music files (in a subdirectory tree), and the cover art (in a separate folder). It pulls from MUSIC-PC but never writes back to it. Even though I'm copying the entire library database, for belt-and-suspenders MC on AV-PC is set to auto-import from its M:\music to be sure that new files appear in the library right away.
Re views, in MC12 days, I had to manually recreate views on the "remote" PCs (or do a registry hack) but now with MC13 I can copy a view design, though clumsily because MC13 doesn't (yet?) provide a smooth way to save/load library files where I want them, which is with the rest of the library files in my custom location M:\music.
For the MOBILE-PC, I use a USB portable drive. It is drive M when hooked to the laptop, and has the identical folder structure and files, managed by the backup software. When I need to update, I either do it remotely via wi-fi from wherever it happens to be, or I connect it directly to MUSIC-PC. Then I manually run a backup script that copies everything from MUSIC-PC M:\music to USB drive M:\music. The backup program doesn't care what the USB drive letter is; it's not M: when hooked to MUSIC-PC because it already has an M:, but when reconnected to MOBILE-PC laptop it must be M: so all MC paths work.
While using auto-import on the "remote" PCs seems to do the job of adding new tracks to the library, to reliably refresh the library I simply reclick it in File > Library. I don't find it necessary to close/reopen MC.
Another benefit of this system is it gives me three copies of my complete library on three drives in three places. (Further, each machine has a true backup USB drive, so I have at least six copies of everything. When we had a huge fire nearby a year ago I grabbed all my drives and evacuated without fear of losing my digital music; I wish my vinyl and tape libraries were so portable.)
I abandoned MC streaming because, while it mostly worked, it used two PCs and lots of my network bandwidth for no real benefit. The low price of large drives, and free backup software, makes it reasonable to automatically duplicate the library rather than stream it. I never found MC's synchronization to be useful between PCs, but of course its ability to manage iPods is fabulous.