A mass of tangled cables doesn’t exactly make for a nice-looking space, whether it’s a desk covered in computer equipment or a game system in a prominent corner of the living room. You can either choose to hide and wrangle them with a clever device, or make them an intentional part of your decor with a few DIY cord organization ideas featured here.
1. DIY Cable Organizer Inspired by AT-ATs
Make your very own DIY AT-AT/Cable Box with a plywood and basswood kit from GeekCook. Just place a power strip inside the body, and use the head for business cards. The kit comes flat-packed with easy-to-follow instructions for assembly.
2. Make Cables Into Intentional Decor
When you can’t manage to hide the cords to your various electronic devices, show them off instead. This DIY project by Palle Olsen mounts a PS3 and all of its cables to the wall using mounting tape and super glue.
3. Power Lines
This concept from designer Daniel Ballou puts cables on display, turning them into ‘power lines’ with a set of metal towers.
4. Florafil Decorative Cable Wrap
Sometimes, you just can’t hide cords to lamps, televisions and other electronic items. Florafil by Tanya de Cruz takes a decorative approach, turning them into vines.
5. More Creatively Displayed Cables
Designer Maisie Maud Broadhead creates these ‘cable drawings‘ to turn what could be an eyesore into a decorative element.
6. One Man Tied
This little organizer from Shop Modi puts some humour into the chore of keeping cords under control.
7. DIY Decluttering with Peg Board
Mounting a sheet of pegboard under even the sleekest, most minimalist desk can help manage routers, drives and other devices that might otherwise be sitting on your desktop looking cluttered. It’s held to the desk with dowels rather than screws, so you can easily remove it to access things as needed.
8. Super-Simple Cord Clamp
One simple flexible little piece of plastic called the ‘ISI Clip‘ clamps lightly onto the edge of a desk, holding cables in its three slots to keep them organized.
9. Picket Fence Cord Hider
People use fences to hide ugly things outdoors all the time, so why not use the same approach indoors? This tongue-in-cheek design from Obolier features self-adhesive ‘fence panels’ that stick to a baseboard to wrangle cords.
10. Contort Flexible USB Hub
The ‘Contort’ from Quirky is a flexible four-port USB hub and cord manager in one that protects thumb drives, keeps them easily accessible and makes transport a cinch.
11. Recoil Winders
Recoil winders make any cable retractable in sizes small, medium and large, for everything but super-skinny ear bud cables to bigger cords for things like tablet chargers.
12. Woofy Cable Container
‘Woofy’ is basically an art piece that also happens to have a hollow inside so you can store cables in his stomach.
13. Snable Cord Organizer & iPhone Stand
One simple little plastic device acts as both a cable management system and an iPhone stand that can secure and manage all sorts of cables of varying sizes. A non-permanent sticky pad on the back adheres it to surfaces at any angle.
14. Cablox Mountable Cord Organizer System
Another self-adhesive grid organizer holds cables in place and routes them whichever way you need for a multi-directional solution.
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