Hide lamp cables - the best tips and ideas

In many places in everyday life you come across the tiresome topic of how to hide a lamp cable. Therefore, we have summarized a few tips and unusual ideas for you here.

Hiding lamp cables - a few classic ideas

Mostly, lamps have a fixed place on the desk or in the middle of the room and the cables interfere with the look.

• If there is a cable on the wall, there is a simple solution from the hardware store - the cable strip. However, only if the lamp has a permanent place. The advantage is that the cable ducts are usually cheap and easy to install.
• If it is a permanently installed lamp, see which channel fits best in terms of color and shape. If you can't find one that suits you, take one made of aluminum or stronger plastic. These lend themselves to making a picture bar from it.
• Here you simply do that by attaching the channel at a height corresponding to your pictures. Then wrap the cable duct around the image points with fishing line that you are knotting. After tying the cord, gently wind the cord three to four times around the canal. The better the hold of the cord. You can then attach these to the picture frame hangers.
• You can use wool for another method of embellishment. Here you should rather use thick wool threads of a knitting wool. With this you wrap the cable. For example, you can give your cable a reggae look.

How to pack cables in a funny and original way

If you prefer the industrial style, then the hardware store is a good contact.

• You will find flexible pipes in the sanitary department. This is available in plastic and aluminum, whereby those made of plastic are mostly beige or gray. Alu is almost always silver colored. Cut the pipe lengthwise with a carpet knife. When you have stowed the cable, simply close it again. Unfortunately there is no way around slicing because the plugs of the lamps do not fit through the flexible tubes.
• Another method that does less work for you is the simple plastic tube with a diameter of 5 cm. In any case, the plug fits through here.
• This tube with a fabric of your choice and suitable for your home is a little eye catcher. Especially if you want to put a little more effort into it and stick the pipe or paint the plastic. With both approaches, you should grind the pipe in advance with 240-grit sandpaper.

Beautify cables instead of hiding them

Another way to hide a cable is to convert it into a garland or a hanging rope.

• You can hang a garland with all kinds of jewelry and let it run along the wall at the desired height. There is no limit to your imagination when it comes to jewelry.
• If the cable is very sturdy and stable, it is also suitable for hanging it on trend shoes on meat hooks. Here it is important that you fix the cable well, for example with U-nails. In addition to shoes, you can also simply hang butterflies, cardboard figures or Christmas decorations on your decorative element in winter.

In our next post you will find helpful ideas if you want to hide a projector.