Home audio & video: Ways to hide your AV component clutter?
Ways to hide your AV component clutter?
by LucJs - 4/23/09 12:08 PMI'm fed up with all the different designs of my A/V components and the cables popping out behind them. I managed to hide the majority by placing my components behind frosted glass, like described here: http://www.cleverandeasy.com/Home-Organizing/hide-your-hi-fi-installation-out-of-sight.html - great solution and the infrared remote controls still work, without an IR extender.
Still, my TV is placed elsewhere and so are the set-top box, it's hard disk and the DVD player. All different designs and form factors. Anyone else found other nice solutions to make such a pile look better?
Wire clutter
by Dan Filice - 4/23/09 1:33 PM In reply to: Ways to hide your AV component clutter? by LucJsI wish every Mfg would decide on a standard for where their plugs are. I've got 3 HDTVs: One has all the plugs on the left side, one has them on the right side and one has them all near the middle. The TV that most matters is the LCD that is mounted on the wall in my bedroom. Here, all the cables are exposed. The best I could to is to use ties to gather them all up neatly, then take shrink wrap (it comes in different sized tubes), cut in, open it, wrap it around the cables and use a hair dryer to shink it. I do know that someone makes a collecting wrap (it looks like a long sock) to do the same thing, but sheesh, that would be too easy.
Use a bookcase with open backs
by mjd420nova - 4/24/09 11:02 PM In reply to: Ways to hide your AV component clutter? by LucJsI have built two bookcases with open backs, one on either side of my fifty inch HDTV. This helps to keep cables short and out of sight. Also keeping components in the same general area means I only need to point any remote in the general area to allow full function. Dressing cables with velcro straps keeps them neat but easily seperated for expansion or replacement.
Hiding A/V cables
by mg50cnet - 6/6/09 5:48 PM In reply to: Ways to hide your AV component clutter? by LucJsDon't laugh-- this is a very low tech solution. I found that you can use an old telephone cord (the ones that coil) to completely consolidate and cover multiple cables and wires. My walls are ivory-colored, so a matching cord tidies everything up and blends into the wall behind my equipment.
Good idea
by LucJs - 6/7/09 5:03 AM In reply to: Hiding A/V cables by mg50cnetThat's nothing to laugh about, it's quite a good idea. You can get such coils in commerce too, but when you have some old phone cords around, it's a good re-use tip!
considerations
by bearvp - 6/8/09 7:31 AM In reply to: Ways to hide your AV component clutter? by LucJsI have a cable/wire jungle behind my home theater and component stands which I'd like to corral someday but if you have high heat producing components you might want to think twice before enclosing your component cabinets too much. Things like receivers, xbox 360s, PS3s, etc. require a decent amount of ventilation so just be sure you don't have too much dead air in your cabinet once you go for better aesthetics.
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