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?
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.
Embrace it.
Add a happy cutout of a rat, to that rat’s nest.
What if I just add a couple paper mâché meatballs in there?
Also good. Ramen.
And now I need to find another collander hat.
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
I think what you’ve got is fine.
You could start by actually trying first.
Lots of good ideas here. This is my take:
Get a bunch of Velcro cable ties. Start grouping things together. As you go, you’re going to get better placement ideas. Once everything is organized, you can decide the next step. Personally, I would look at having the PC in the bookshelf, and look for a way to put the cables in the wall.
If you do that, I’d suggest having 2 cable runs with a string looping through so that when you change things up you can easily pull a new cable.
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I tried this with velcro ties. Looked good for a while. Then I had to replace one and add another cable. It was a royal pain unwrapping everything and rewrapping it.
Haven’t used them, but look interesting:
Honestly I hate those things. It’s fine if you’re not going to add or remove anything, but velcro is easier than those. Plus the cheaper ones don’t round off the edges and can crease the cable insulation.
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That’s really cool but I have to run all power to sensitive devices through a UPS first to clean it up.
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Oh cool I thought it was one that you hardwire right into the electrical.
Those links don’t work for people outside the US.
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Looks fine to me.
It looks better in dim light.
See! Just keep the lights off.
Longer cables so you can wrap the slack and hide it?
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.
I would say at this point any type of management would be good lol
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
Entertainment stand/cabinet thing under the TV.
You could be artsy about it and attach the cables to the wall in straight runs with 90s, but the execution of that is harder.
