OK people. This is one of those topics I've blogged about before...BUT there are certain ones that I get asked about a lot or they are just something I do often and like to do reminders. I've been blogging for nearly ten years so it's fun to share stuff like this again occasionally. I find myself using this trick a lot lately as we get settled into the house.
Some of you may not care about this and probably wonder why this is even a "thing." And then there are some of you who will nod your head as you read and then gasp when you see how easy it is and you'll be all -- YES. I need this in my world! This is for you. ;)
It's not a secret -- I hate cords. Like, really, really hate them. I can live with a messy/disaster of a house for days but if I see a cord I can barely live with it for five minutes. It's just my thing. Don't even get me started on catalog pictures with cords. DON'T. EVEN.
I put a photo of our kitchen table area on Instagram yesterday and the first question was...where are the cords??:
Well, the cord ninja is here to help. Go to most any hardware store (or you can get them on Amazon here) and go to the aisle that has phone and cable supplies. Look for long, skinny plastic tubes:
Oh, by the way, these are paintable! So you can paint them to match your walls. I like to run them along white baseboards so I don't need to paint them often.
They have a flat side that's sticky -- you peel the paper off to adhere them. I think they come in four, maybe five foot lengths? But I've learned over the years just one will stretch through many areas -- I use small sections. I just score around it with scissors:
And then snap it in two. You may have some slightly ragged edges but it's no big deal. No one will see them!
This is where the fun comes in. You put the cord inside and then peel the back off and stick them wherever you want (this was an old desk I did this to years ago):
On this table I went down the back of two of the legs and then across the back at the bottom. You can also adhere them underneath. If you look really close you can see the tube going down the back of the middle leg:
Like I said, there's really no need to use long sections of them. I cut about four to five inch parts off and use them for projects like this. One down the back, maybe one or two along the bottom. If you have extra long cords you can kind of stack them like I did in the photo above.
It's a little thing that is cheap and very easy to do -- and I think it makes a big difference! No cords!:
From this angle you can see can still see the plug of course, but from the front the (fake) candle hides it. Plugs don't bother me nearly as much as cords. We all have things, right? Cords are mine. 😂
Have you tried this trick? You can see other ways I've used these cord hiders in this post from years ago as well. If the furniture has a leg, you can hide the cord! Whoohoo!
from
http://www.thriftydecorchick.com/2017/11/how-to-hide-lamp-cords.html
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