How to hide tv cords in apartment

When you’re looking for design ideas for your apartment, one of the most important things you can do is blend your technology naturally into your living space. A mess of wires can make your apartment look disorganized even if everything else is clean.

Luckily, home design experts have been solving this problem for a few years now, and there are some great solutions available. Follow the five tips and tricks below to hide your cords and give your apartment a clean, modern, organized look.

1. Hide a Charging Station

The nightstand is one of those areas in any apartment that can turn into a jumbled mess of wires in a hurry. If you charge all of your electronics at your bedside, you’ll probably have at least a few cords vying for space here. This could apply anywhere else you charge your devices, too.

The solution is to plan your charging station in a way that makes it look clean and organized. The easiest way is to hide it away in a drawer. To do this, just put a small hole in the back of a drawer and run a power strip out of the back. Open the drawer to access all of your plugs in the power strip, then close it to hide the mess.

It’s important to make sure that you give your cord enough slack that it doesn’t pull out of the wall when you open the drawer. Buy a cord that’s a foot or two longer than you think you’ll need to be safe.

Another option is to buy a charging station that can go on top of your nightstand. With either of these workarounds, you’ll only have one cord left to worry about: the one that goes into your charging station. There are some easy ways to conceal this, too– read on to see what they are.

2. Hang Something Behind Your Desk

Wires and cords can build up fast at your desk, especially when you’ve got an intense computer setup. This might include a computer, multiple speakers, multiple monitors, a docking station, and more. All of those components take a lot of cords, which are probably hanging in a disorganized web of cables behind your desk.

Depending on where your desk is and what kind of desk you have, all of those cords might not be very easy to see. If they’re becoming an eyesore, though, there’s an easy fix. Simply cut some fabric or any other material, and hang it from the back of your desktop. Connect it to the legs of your desk as well to make sure it’s not too loose back there.

You can use a fun pattern or color to add a pop of flair or match something to your desk to create a more traditional look.

3. Hide Your Router Behind Decorations

You’ve most likely got a wifi router somewhere in your apartment, and all the wires that come with it. Routers generally work better when they’re up high, which means you have to run cords to a high point in your apartment. Try the top of a bookshelf, then put books in front of it to conceal the device. Affix the cords to the side of the bookshelf to keep them out of the way.

4. Hide them in a Cable Concealer

Sometimes you have to run cables right across a wall (for example, to get them to a wall-mounted TV). In that case, you can use a cable concealer to keep the wires safe, together, and out of sight.

Pick a cable concealer that matches your trim for maximum discretion, or choose a color that complements your design scheme and makes some artistic angles. If you pick the right concealer and position it correctly, people might not even register it when they look around your apartment.

5. Wrangle Cords with Common Supplies

There’s a good chance you already have some supplies you can use to help keep your cords organized. For example, binder clips and tape are great at bundling cords together and affixing them to the sides of furniture.

If you’re looking for something a little bit more secure, zip ties are extremely inexpensive. Once you’ve bundled cords together, it’s easy to run them up the sides of furniture. If there’s no good place on your furniture to use a binder clip, zip tie, or tape, try an adhesive plastic hook to hang your wires.

Apartments in Phoenix

Heers Management offers some of the most modern Phoenix apartments on the market. Our state-of-the-art layouts are designed to accommodate new technology, which means you’ll have plenty of outlets throughout the entire unit, especially where you need them most.

Good outlet coverage reduces your need to run wires from one side of the room to the other, so you won’t have to try as hard to hide your cords and wires. Contact us today to set up a walk through and see what we mean!

Caroline is a writer living in New York City. When she’s not covering art, interiors, and celebrity lifestyles, she’s usually buying sneakers, eating cupcakes, or hanging with her rescue bunnies, Daisy and Daffodil.

updated Jun 10, 2020

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Here’s how I did it: My media console has an especially low profile, so I used a pair of old school record players on top of its surface as bases for each pile. Then I created two stacks of books—one on each record player—starting with the largest books at the bottoms, working my way to the smallest on top. Sure, you can see a tiny bit of the cords on each side from certain angles, but this was way cheaper, quicker, and easier than installing a raceway.

I divided each of my piles of coffee table books by theme, with one stack for fashion and music books and the other for art and beauty. But interior designer Meagan Camp says there are all sorts of ways to style yours. “Two to three books (or more) usually work best when creating a stack of books,” she explains. “For color, consider the book’s jacket and how it works with the other books and the other colors in a room. I’ll either group books by similar colors or monochromatically.”

If you don’t have a tall enough book pile to totally cover your cords, don’t worry. You can place cool art or home décor objects on top to score more height while creating a one-of-a-kind console vignette. “A beautiful bowl, a small box, or even a plant looks gorgeous on top of a stack of books,” Camp says. Simply situate the accessory in a way that obscures the cords, and you’re good to go. 

The best part about this handy cord covering hack is that there’s a good chance you’re already sitting on the materials at home, so it’s both easy and free. If you don’t have a huge coffee table book collection to work with, just use larger coffee table books at the bottom of your pile and taper off into standard hardcover books to create a similar look in seconds. Not only does this hide your unattractive TV cables, it frees up extra bookshelf space for new additions. So rest assured I’ll be stacking my books the same way inside all my future homes.

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