Electronic devices fill our lives, bringing the wonders of the technological age into our homes and surrounding us with entertainment and convenience. However the problem is that a lot of these devices are built to be functional; and if decorative considerations are taken into account it’s usually an attempt by the designers to make the piece look as futuristic as possible. This will almost never match traditional or contemporary home furnishings, leaving these delightful toys as sore spots on the beauty of a room.
The good news is that there are a variety of ways to either hide, or incorporate these high tech gadgets into the natural decorative setting in your home. This is compounded by the fact that technology is getting smaller, flatter, and more innovative in a variety of ways, which can allow you new and exciting options when trying to integrate these pieces into an environment.
First off, the most traditional solution to electronic decorating blues is to simply hide the pieces behind a door. There are many entertainment centers that are built to allow you to close doors over media devices, and even over a television. Television cabinets are not uncommon, and can usually be purchased in whatever style will best match the rest of the room, allowing you to pick and choose when you bring the high tech gadgetry out of hiding.
However today, flat screen televisions give you a wealth of options for hiding that over sized screen that is clashing with the rest of the room. These thin monitors can be installed in fixtures that let them slide in and out of cabinets, swing out of walls, or shoot down from the ceiling. While those options may be a little expensive, requiring fairly extensive construction to change the nature of the walls, floors, ceiling, or fixture, another less costly option is to set a curtain around the media center. A tapestry can also be used, hiding the gaudy electronics, behind a graceful cloth pattern of your choosing.
Another major problem with these modern accessories are the plethora of cords that can end up strung back and forth across a room, running from media to peripherals and back again.
The traditional way to hide wires has been to trace them along creases in the walls, usually allowing them to flow along the line of the floor, the ceiling, or angles in the walls. This can be accomplished using specialty wiring nails, or if you are skilled and very careful, a staple gun.
In general, cords should also be shortened to the smallest length possible, combined into bundles using ties, and hidden behind existing furnishings such as a tv stand or beneath a coffee table. In general organization will do more for your chaotic clusters than anything else.
Today there are even more ways to hide your wires, with specialty covers being sold at your local hardware store that can completely hide the unsavory snaking twines of electric wire that slip along your walls. These can be elaborate pieces which match just about any finish, or simple strips which merely cover up the cords, depending on how much you are willing to spend and how elaborate you’re willing to get.
While electronics generally don’t match any of the traditional furnishings you find in homes, there are a variety of ways to hide them within the decorative aspects of the space. There are a wealth of pieces that can be used to cover up media pieces, screens, and even cords. Depending on how elaborate you want to get you can even have these devices installed directly into walls, allowing you to hide them dimensionally within the architectural under belly of the space.
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