5 Solutions for Hiding TV Cables Around Your Living Room Furniture

The classic plastic TV cable trunking is the instinctive grab from the DIY store shelf. A 30x30 millimetre profile typically accommodates a mains power cable, an HDMI cable, and an optical audio cable. This method conceals the clutter, but adds a visible foreign object to the wall's architecture.

We strongly advise against using the factory-applied adhesive strips. On woodchip or non-woven wallpaper, the trunking usually detaches after a few weeks due to the weight of the copper cables. Drilling and plugging at 40-centimetre intervals guarantees a permanent hold, but damages the wall's surface.

Visually, this option remains a compromise. Even if the trunking is painted in the exact colour of the wall, the surface-mounted profile inevitably casts shadows. For rental properties or frequently changing setups, it serves its purpose, but in a well-thought-out living concept, it appears out of place.

The most pragmatic method for hiding unruly cables combines flexible neoprene sleeves with plastic organiser boxes on the floor. A fabric sleeve with a hook-and-loop fastener bundles the various cable strands into a single, visually tidier unit.

Organiser boxes conceal excess cable lengths and unsightly multi-socket extensions. However, a real thermal risk lurks here. High-performance devices draw high currents, causing power supplies to heat up significantly. Closed boxes without adequate ventilation dangerously trap this heat.

We therefore recommend only aluminium boxes with convection openings. Nevertheless, this approach ultimately remains a makeshift solution. It simply shifts the aesthetic problem into a box that sits on the floor as a dust trap. Anyone who wishes to avoid this can opt directly for a piece of furniture like the Ozzio Brera TV Media Lowboard, which invisibly integrates all unsightly cables.

Special clip-on skirting boards with an integrated cavity offer an elegant route along the room's perimeters. A milled channel, typically 15x10 Millimetres, completely invisibly accommodates speaker cables with a cross-section of up to 2,5 Quadratmillimetres or flat network cables.

For networking rear surround speakers or a distant router, this technique is unbeatable. It merely requires precise mitre cutting in the room corners to guide the cables without kinks.

However, the fundamental problem remains unresolved: the skirting board only manages the horizontal run along the floor. The vertical drop from the wall-mounted screen down to the piece of furniture is not addressed by this method in any way, which is why it is unsuitable as a standalone TV solution.

An absolutely sleek TV wall requires modular precision that adapts exactly to your collection of devices. A freely configurable system like the Livitalia Box Lowboard Configurator orchestrates cable management through three synchronised components. The custom-made top panel defines the exact entry point for cables, precisely centred beneath the screen's connections.

Inside, precisely CNC-milled 60-millimetre openings in each partition wall handle horizontal distribution. This allows the games console in the right module to communicate invisibly with the network switch in the outermost left compartment, without a single cable leaving the furniture.

The recessed back panel completes the system and completely isolates the technical cable clutter from the main storage space. Files, glasses, or accessories in the front compartments thus never clash with the cabling. This triple architecture consistently separates technology from living comfort.