Hiding / Organising Cables

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I got rid of a TV cabinet due to a move around in our lounge and I've made a couple of shelves to go under the new TV as you can see in the picture. Annoyingly there are so many cables now that I can't seem to hide. I'm thinking of attaching a cage under the bottom shelf but I can't find one really. The tubing that's all wonky isn't fixed and is just temporary as I'll get more and fix. I didn't want to chisel out the walls so tubing was the only option but its more the general untidiness. Any advice would be helpful.

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Got any of that timber left? Glue and screw a suitably sized lip on the front? That will cover your plugs..

As for the cables - go uber BSP pipe mad and run them through that?? Just like galvanised conduit to be fair... so no real issues I can see? Doubt 3"4 inch would fit HDMI etc though... but worth a look! Might fit it through some 32mm galv conduit.

To be honest though - doesn't look unattractive I don't think.
 
i'd be tempted to make a small panel thats hinged from the underside of the bottom shelf, maybe cover it in the wallpaper to hide it from sight
 
You're not really going to get away with not having cables on show with a large number of devices on show.

Best way is to move the devices out of show (cupboard/cabinet at the back of the room) and then run the cables in the wall/behind skirting right to behind the TV.
 
maybe I'd get some pieces of brown/grey acrylic sheer and make oblong lip covering plugs, attach with vhb tape say; and a vertical piece with some standoff spacers to put the vertical cables behind.

not sure I'd run mains cables and hdmi/audio/coax cables too closely, so would probably have two separate verictal, rectangular trunkings.

e: classy stuff -> https://plasticsheetsshop.co.uk/product/anthracite-satin-acrylic-sheet-4mm/
 
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What about a floating cabinet. Mains, cat, HDMI and sat cable are chased in. Extension socket behind Tv and one in cabinet. One side virgin box, router and power supplies and extra HDMI and cat for laptop.

Other side headphones, cables, keyboard, mouse and joy pads etc. Xbox just visiting lives upstairs, just taken advantage of HDMI 2.1

120mm pc fan cooling things down.

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That's the best option really, unless you want the shelves...then you can get plug socket covers and wall paper or colour them maybe
 
I managed to reuse an old Ikea shelf we had lying around, not sure this is the perfect solution but it looks much better than it did:

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There is a lip on the shelf underneath which means I can rest larger plugs on it.
 
@ThereIs0nly0ne Made a covering to hide wires. It was effectively a frame wrapped in speaker cloth from memory and would probably look quite good. I've tagged him (i think it's him), as i can't find the pictures.

Alternative is similar to what you've done (but longer) but cover the drop down in matching wallpaper as mentioned above. I think that would look quite good as you'd retain the look of the shelf brackets.

Alternatively. Fit a third shelf underneath and put some picture frames/candles on it and see if that covers it slightly.
 
I got rid of a TV cabinet due to a move around in our lounge and I've made a couple of shelves to go under the new TV as you can see in the picture. Annoyingly there are so many cables now that I can't seem to hide. I'm thinking of attaching a cage under the bottom shelf but I can't find one really. The tubing that's all wonky isn't fixed and is just temporary as I'll get more and fix. I didn't want to chisel out the walls so tubing was the only option but its more the general untidiness. Any advice would be helpful.

I did this with ours as @Martynt74 has indicated:

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I managed to reuse an old Ikea shelf we had lying around, not sure this is the perfect solution but it looks much better than it did:

That's not bad at all. But see if you can get a matching piece of wood and attach it to the underside of the bottom shelf
 
was the horizontal sockets cover, speaker cloth over a purpose built wood frame, or an extrusion of some type ?
speaker baffles(?) are they functional, similarly, too ? melamine ?

Hi there, the socket cover was purpose built with 9mm MDF with some holes cut onto it to allow for a bit of ventilation. The speaker cloth was stapled to it from underneath.

Not sure what you mean by the speaker baffles part (acoustic panels?).
 
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