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Make a floorboard picket fence to hide your wires

• by Dan Chilton on Nov 13th 2007 7:00PM
• Filed under home decor, household hacks, organization and storage, electrical, electronics

Today on Unclutterer, they featured a fantastic conceptual design from Boiler that transforms your floorboard into a miniature picket fence, creating a perfect place to store all those ugly, hanging wires.

From the site: The Picket Fence adapts to older homes and cleanly manages the electrical necessities of the occupants. The baseboards have a certain thickness to them, typically much thicker than an electrical cord. By sticking these pickets onto the baseboard, a space is created between the wall and the picket points. This space serves as a track for routing all of the wires cleanly around the room. They can go wherever they like and double back as much as they need to, all concealed behind a picket fence. Because of the gaps between the individual pickets, a plug can jump out wherever it is needed.

What a clean and interesting way to hide wire clutter! This could easily be turned into a DIY weekend project with little more than an Exacto knife, durable foamcore, and some double-sided taped. Give it a try and let us know how it turns out!

Tags: double-sided tape, Double-sidedTape, electrical outlets, ElectricalOutlets, exacto, exacto knife, ExactoKnife, floorboards, foamcore, outlet, wires

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9-26-2008 @ 10:58AM

Seth said...

I have to say that it would look best in kids room rather than in a living or dining room. http://www.atlanta-fence-company.com http://www.productionfenceworks.com

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