20 best ideas for masking wires in an apartment
TV and internet
It’s not difficult to hide the network cable and the television wires going around the room. It is best to use a special electrotechnical baseboard, which will go through the whole house to the bedroom or hall. If there is no desire to buy a new baseboard, you can carefully mask a bunch of wires using special designer gadgets, like a picket fence, as in the photo below:
In order not to pull the Internet cable from the front door to the bedroom, it is recommended to install a Wi-fi router at the entrance to the apartment (in the corridor). In this case, the network connection will be wireless and you will not have to pull the cable between the rooms, through doorways and sills.
In addition, you can hide the television wires in a cable channel, which is quite simply attached to the wall with screws. Today there are many kinds of cable channelswhich suit color not only in an ordinary apartment, but also in a wooden house.
If the repair has already been done, then the best solution would be to use decor elements - beautiful clips that will decorate the wires from the mounted TV, running along the floor and wall. You can also see an example of this method of solving the problem in the photo:
If you want to hide the cords from the TV during the repair, we recommend that you make a special niche for them in drywall or vice versa, collect the box:
In order not to ditch the walls, you can hide the TV and the Internet cable in the baseboard, if you make it as shown in this video:
Well, the last way is to drill a groove in the wall behind the plasma and run electric wires through it. However, this is the most time-consuming option, which is best avoided. Imagine that you need to hang the TV on another wall, you have to think again how to hide the antenna cable.
As for the rest of household appliances - air conditioning, a music center or even a home theater, with the help of the ideas listed above you can mask the hanging wires using the same method. The cable from the air conditioner is most often hidden in the cable channel, and from the home theater the wires are run over the baseboard, securing them with special clips.
A computer
Computer wires spoil the interior of the room very much and if you dream a little, you can hide them pretty nicely.
The first idea is to disguise all the cords from the monitor, the system unit and the modem under the table top, securing them with clips to screws or double-sided tape. This idea was clearly shown in the photo example:
Another simple way to hide all unnecessary under the table cover you can see in this video tutorial:
Do not want to spoil the table? You can hide the wires from computer equipment in a shoe box, originally decorating it under the interior of the bedroom.
How to make such a box with your own hands, you can find out by watching this video:
In addition, the original idea is to buy a special cover for the extension cord, which is quite simple to attach to the desk cover.
If the cord from the speakers bothers you, you can easily hide it in the appropriate cover, which is attached to the back of the table.
All excess cords, including charging, can be beautifully removed from the table using ordinary clamps, as in the picture below:
Another idea is to thread the whole bunch of wires through the hose. In this case, the chaos under the table will hide in one single shell, which will not so much spoil the interior of the room or even the office.
Using all these tips, you can mask the electrical wires and make the workplace more neat. There is nothing complicated in just putting cords and cables in a box or securing it under a table! In addition to cleaning up your computer desk in this way, masking also helps protect cords from dogs and cats who like to chew on charging, headphones, etc.
Fixtures
Today, the installation of spotlights in a house or apartment is gaining more and more popularity. As a rule, there are more than 4 spots on the ceiling, so there are a lot of wires to connect them. There are several ways to hide the excess from the eyes, depending on the ceiling in the room. The easiest way is if the ceiling is stretch, because In this case, the wires can be masked by the ceiling film itself. If the ceiling is gypsum plasterboard, you can hide the wiring only under the gypsum board sheets, inside the frame. About how to conduct wiring under drywall, read our separate article: https://our.electricianexp.com/en/kak-provesti-elektroprovodku-pod-gipsokartonom.html.
If all the wires from the chandelier are hidden in the lamp housing, then the cord for connect sconces hide a little harder. If the wall is bare, you can decoratively hide the hanging wire by building it up and making a drawing on the wall. You can see an example of such an idea in the photo:
If you are thinking about how to hide the wires from the sconce during the repair, it is best make a strob in the wall and connect the lamp from the junction box, and not through the outlet. In this case, all the electrical wiring will hide under the plaster and wallpaper, and the interior will not be damaged. Do you want to do without gating? Then hide all the excess in the cable channel that goes along the wall.
You can hide the power supply from the LED strip in a special box, which is mounted under the ceiling and allows make hidden LED backlight in the kitchen or in the hall.
That's all I wanted to tell about this issue. We hope that for yourself you got ideas on how to hide the wires from the TV, computer and other household appliances so that it is beautiful.
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Cool), but not practical!
To wipe dust from electric trees ... .. The designer explicitly wrote, only they are characterized by crazy ideas.
A box of shoes ... ..))). The apartment is in a classic style and on the console this is the box))).
But where do not put it, the box is the box and its place in the closet!
Beautiful pictures, but for life, nonsense!
Can you suggest any better ideas?
Of course - for example, do not buy a computer in the standard assembly but put a monoblock
Make a plug behind the monitor
For speakers, lay the layout behind the skirting boards
Yes, there are still many ideas - but to draw birds and trees with wires is really idiocy
Nonsense. Usually it starts just with a computer. Wires - a minimum. According to the news - we carefully hide the wires, everything is beautiful. Then it went - a modem, a router, charging for phones, a TV, speakers, a subbuffer, etc. etc .. Like a snowball. As a result - soon at the place of installation of the computer - a lot of stuff. Therefore, in the box - the most optimal option, after major repairs of the apartment. A box is better than a bunch of wires in the dust on the floor. In the dust - because you can’t touch them again so that something doesn’t turn off
Yes, normal ideas! With clips - especially pinned!
Too lazy to fix stationary standard boxes, cable channels and organizers or to spoil / ennoble a removable hut - it's quite an idea! And for the smartest - a vector of reflection!
And then the wise guys got divorced - you tell me to freebie, practical, fun and beautiful! Save money, freeloaders!
some ugliness. The most common plastic cable channel mentioned in the article only in passing is the only decent solution to the problem from the entire proposed sodomy.
Well, about the cable channels in concrete or drywall, laid at the stage of repair, it makes no sense to speak - who had the opportunity to do this does not enter into such topics.