The 8 Best Methods to Conceal All of Your Wires at Home

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Is your home a tangled mess of wires because of your love of technology? Given the proliferation of electronic devices in the average home, it can be a challenge to find a place for all the wires that connect them. However, before you completely cut ties with technology, consider the following cord-management options. In order to permanently improve your home's organization, you can purchase or make your own products to disguise or hide every wire in sight.

Hang extension cords from the underside of your furniture.

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When you secure dangling wires to the nearest piece of furniture, they vanish in an instant. Using clear cord clips like Command Cord Clips, attach them to the underside of your furniture's legs. The clips only require a 30-second installation time, and then you can hook up multiple cords and have them run neatly down the legs of your console. This is consistent with the rest of 3M's line of renter-friendly solutions. (These hooks are also great for concealing cables and chargers on your desk. )

Behind a TV on a stand, the cables can be a mess, but with a little DIY ingenuity, you can create a space to neatly organize and conceal the cords. This one, created by Heidi of Kruse's Workshop (and seen on Tatertots & Jello), has a notch that runs down the center of the back leg to corral cords. You can recreate the stand from scratch with reclaimed wood: Follow the blogger’s detailed instructions for how to use a table saw to create a recessed groove in the back leg, then run the cords for your TV and other entertainment essentials down the groove in the leg to keep them out of sight

Organize wires behind the sofa.

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This slim sofa table from Etsy vendor MittenStateWoodworks is perfect for hiding the mess of cords that surrounds you when you have multiple electronic devices plugged in. The slim table is designed to fit discreetly behind any sofa, and it comes equipped with an electrical outlet and two USB ports for charging your electronic devices. Extra light can be provided by plugging in a lamp, and the surface is yours to decorate however you like. You should avoid getting any liquids on the table's electrical components.

Put TV cables in plain sight

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If your wall-mounted TV's cords are getting in the way of the show, try installing a cable cover like the D-Line Cable Raceway, a top pick in our in-depth guide to the best cable management solutions. These plastic tracks can be mounted on top of existing wires in a wall-to-wall fashion.

You can easily install a TV and conceal its wires by first measuring the distance from the wall to the bottom of the screen; this is the length of cord cover you'll need, and it can be trimmed to size if necessary. For the Cable Raceway, a hacksaw is needed to sever the cord cover at both its bottom and its top. Next, screw the raceway base to the wall as directed by the manufacturer, run the TV cables through the channel, and secure the cover. If your wall is a bright color, you may want to consider painting the wall before installing a cord cover, as most cord covers are sold in white or a metallic gray. But when you paint them the same color as your wall (using latex-based paint), they disappear entirely.

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Using recessed cable plates like those found in the DATA COMM Easy Mount Cable Organizer Kit is the best way to keep the cords of a wall-mounted TV out of sight. Using a stud finder, locate two stud-free sections of wall: one behind where the screen would sit, and another further down the wall near an outlet. This requires removing the TV from the wall (or moving it aside if your TV has an adjustable arm). Here is where you will make your cuts with the utility knife, mount your cable plates, and run your TV cables. You could fool your guests into thinking they're watching a wireless movie on your new media setup.

5. Wrap the jumble of cords in the tubing

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Is it impossible to keep track of the tangle of wires that connect your desktop computer to your monitor to your phone to your printer to your modem? One of the easiest ways to organize the tangle of wires that has developed on your desk is to use a cable wrap, such as the MOSOTECH 120-inch Cable Sleeve, which we recommend as one of the best cable management solutions. The wires can be corralled into a smaller bundle by simply bunching them together in your hands and wrapping the two-foot-long pieces of flexible foam tubing around them. Because of its slinky form, individual wires within the bundle can be detached and rerouted at any point along the cable's length.

6 Put them away in a drawer

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A bulky power strip parked on the floor and overflowing with cords is an eyesore that can be avoided with a little ingenuity and the help of a desk drawer. Drill a hole in the back of the desk drawer that is close to an electrical outlet using a hole saw bit. To finish, drill a hole in the drawer panel and thread the power strip cable through it. Finally, attach the power strip to the panel from the back using double-sided tape. Create a spot in the drawer for each charging device as you plug them into the power strip, just like home blogger Jenny Steffens Hobick does in her kitchen cabinetry.

The South Shore Vito nightstand, which has a charging station built in, is a good option if you'd rather not construct one yourself.

7. Weave them in between the baseboard fittings.

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If you have an ethernet cable running the length of your living room, office, or bedroom, you can prevent accidents by installing baseboard cord channels in the baseboards. The impact-resistant, self-adhering cord channels are essentially just cutouts from plastic quarter round shoe molding. Mounting the channels to your baseboards is as simple as removing the adhesive backing, pressing the channel against a baseboard, and threading an ethernet cable (or other cord) through the channel's opening. The cord channels in the baseboards are stainable and paintable, so they can be styled to complement a wide variety of decors.

8. Hide your routers and cables in "books ”

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Putting your modem or router on a shelf can make it look even more out of place than it already does. Covobox, an Etsy shop, has a stylish router cover that would look great on either end of your library. Repurpose a binder that is broad enough to accommodate your router, and use hot glue to attach colorful scrap fabric to the binder's back, front, and spine for a homemade version. The router cables can then be hidden along the length of the wall behind the furniture by placing the binder vertically between a few books on an end table, desk, or shelf. Voilà An immediate classic that simplifies cable management