I’m on the end stages of setting up a media room and I can’t get the cables looking good does anyone have any genius ideas for this?
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Here’s my idea: manage the cables.
You don’t need ideas, you just need to start.
Agreed… Jesus Christ man, get some Velcro and tidy that shit up
Just that simple step would do wonders
Good lord it’s like the physical embodiment of one of your comments
I don’t see anything cerebral yet slightly whimsical about this picture.
You could start by actually trying first.
I would say at this point any type of management would be good lol
I can’t get the cables looking good
It’s because you plan and do cables in the early stages, not in the end stage, if you ever want it to look good.
The only thing I can think of now:
Powerful golden spray paint on all cables. Make it shine, make it look like it was all intended like this.
Looks fine to me.
It looks better in dim light.
See! Just keep the lights off.
Cable raceways. Just stick em to the back of your racks, or on the bottom of the shelves and run the cables through em. You might need some you can stick to the wall, if you want, to run cables to the TV. You should also mount the power strips on the shelves, probably the lowest shelf. You can use one if those boxes that conceal the power strips, or use one of those under desk mounted shelves the’that you can put the let power strips on. Along with cables and stuff.
You put a lot of thought into this, thank you!
I did something similar for my desk and bookshelf combo that I’ve got in my office.
Some of the cables need to be longer to not have that effect where they’re being pulled against their own weight.
Then, lean into it: https://www.instructables.com/Maximum-Wire-Management/
You can buy these cable runs too (for example). Hide cables by running them along the base of your walls. Just match the color with your walls so it doesn’t stand out so much.
You could look into getting some cable channels as a pretty cheap and easy solution. They’re just plastic half-tubes that you can bundle the cables into and stick to the wall, so you could just have one pipe that runs up the wall to the back of the TV. You can paint them to match the wall and hide it a bit, too.
Wire ties. Literally just zip ties. Keeps them easy to get to but looks cool as fuck if you bundle them like a wiring harness.
Plus they make reusable zip ties now.
Zip ties are terrible for wire management, use velcro; it’s reusable, soft and doesn’t damage wires or skin, and can be cut to various lengths when purchased in a roll.
Nothing more rage inducing than someone who went ham with zipties in a rack.
Velcro, always.
Move the pc next to the shelf.
Move the sub under the tv.
Get surface mount cable runs and go down from the tv to the floor, over to the shelf, and up along the side of the shelf.
Do you have attic access over that wall? A really long HDMI/RCA could go from behind the TV into the wall, up to attic, skip a few studs, then down to a brush faceplate behind the consoles
Aye, it’s a fucking shit show alright. Hide the cables behind some low wooden shelves under the TV and put all the devices on those shelves (drill holes in the back of the shelves for the cables to go through). Otherwise stick that big black hairy god-awful pimp carpet over the whole lot of it and velcro it to the wall. Also, you need to get a good plasterer. That back wall is a fucking disgrace.
All the walls and the roof are textured the same.
It looks pretty sharp painted black.
