Hide cables - How to stow away the tangled cables
There are many options and products for hiding cables. We give you examples.
No more tangled cables - hide cables properly
To successfully hide cables in the living room or in the office, the following furniture, devices and solutions are available to combine, fasten and lay cables. In the following picture gallery we show you the products and solutions in detail.
- It is best to make sure when buying furniture whether cable routing has been considered here. Newer furniture, especially office furniture, already offers strips, holes and guides for cables.
- Even newer devices such as televisions, monitors and matching wall brackets often have options for bundled cable routing.
- Otherwise, combine the cables yourself with cable ties, Velcro or cable conduits.
- Lay cables, for example, in cable ducts or in baseboards.
- At hidden places, you can attach individual or grouped cables to the walls or back of furniture with nail clamps or screw hooks.
- Cables and cable bundles with armored tape hold on the underside of the furniture.
- With a hole saw attachment for drills, you can run cables particularly well through the back of furniture to keep them hidden.
- A specialist can even pry open the wall or cut out the floor to lay cables under plaster or floor covering. You can then easily plaster the wall again.
- You can find further suggestions in our practical tip on cable salad.
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These are available from the size of a power cable to those in which you can install sockets, light switches and other plugs. Cable ducts are available in different colors, lengths and sizes, for surfaces and for edges. You can mount light cables to the wall and ceiling with double-sided adhesive tape, screw heavy ducts tight.
Skirting boards in doors and for the transition between flooring and wallpaper usually have cutouts in which you can run cables. There are even baseboards that can be routed through the middle of the room to collect cables and at least reduce the risk of tripping.
Monitors often offer brackets and guides for the many cables required. These are then hidden from the user angle.
Desks and other office furniture in particular already contain strips to guide cables and sockets in hidden places.
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On the back of wooden furniture, you can hide a lot of cables when you use a drill a sufficiently large hole for your drill.
Of course, the best way is to run cables in the wall or floor. It is best to have this done by a specialist. Also keep in mind that this solution makes it difficult to replace defective cables or add new cables afterwards.
