Mounting a tv on your wall allows you to watch it comfortably without using an entertainment center but the cables may look messy when they hang down.
Putting tv on wall hiding cables.
Hiding tv wires and cables.
Perhaps the biggest frustration with tv s is the mess the connecting cables can create.
Turning your tv cords into wall art is a stylish and creative way to manage and organize them.
While it s against electrical code to run your tv s power cable behind your wall you can install an in wall power extender that allows you to add a new outlet without any complicated wiring.
You ll want to lightly sand the cover then paint it the same color as your wall.
Hiding the wires is not the only solution.
Measure the length of the cords you want to conceal then measure and cut flex tubing to match the length.
You can create anything from an abstract image to a silhouette of a city object or person.
How to mount a tv above a fireplace and hide wires for wall mounted tv.
Now let s take our diy skills to the next level and hide them behind the wall.
Conceal with flex tubing.
Turn your tv wires into a wall art.
Hide the cable box behind a wall mounted tv.
The best solution for keeping the cords of a wall mounted tv out of sight involves hiding them behind the wall itself using recessed cable plates e g datacomm.
Use cable ties to bundle cords and snip off the ends as needed.
It only took us about an hour or so.
Those are your best 2 options for hiding your cables on the wall no drywall cutting required.
There are honestly few things worse than mounting a tv on a wall just to leave a bundle of cables dangling down to the power socket and to your av equipment.
Hide wires inside a shower curtain rod cover.
Wrap around the wires.
If you have your tv wall mounted or are thinking about it the biggest struggle is what to do with all the components.
Pull the tube apart and wrap around the wires that were tied together.
How to hide tv wires behind the wall.
Sometimes you can leave them in plain sight and still make them look great.
Well there is.
It s really not that hard to mount your tv on a wall and conceal all the cords.
Mounting your tv to the wall and hiding all the cords is fairly straight forward.
Other times people end up with their cable boxes on a table or stand by the tv with the mess of wires hanging down.
Full tutorial including wall mount electrical box and hiding wires thank you to lg.
We finally got around to mounting our tv on the wall this weekend.
Here s a step by step tutorial.
If you re mounting your tv to the wall and don t want to install the wires inside the wall you can hide the clutter with a shower curtain rod cover.