Strategic placement of books and components (and black tie wraps) used

here. Use the tie wraps to gather 2 groups the cords together then use another tie wraps to secure the first group to the Samsung pedestal. The secon group of cords is behind the blue ray player. Not perfect, but better then it was.

I just ordered one of these to hide a power strip and power cords.

You can also paint them the wall color.

Wow, Maddielee, you did an amazing job hiding your cords!

Ahhhh....I just figured out how to post photos....you can see how techno challenged I am! Here the mess I'm dealing with....thanks again for suggestions.

Joanie those are how mine looked. Tie wraps.

Tie the cords together, run them behind the tv toward the bottom, over to the pedestal, tape them to the tv just above the bottom of the tv, right above the pedestal, and then run them down the back of the pedestal securing with tape in several places.

But you're still left with the sideview!

Yes, can't do much about the side view.....there's no other way to arrange the furniture unfortunately.

Definitely cable ties and tape. Or one of those slit tube things they sell for wrangling computer cables.

How much more room do you have on the wall to the right of the TV? We have the same situation, but have a grandfather clock to the right of the TV. Although our TV "console" is a walnut mid-century credenza, and the clock is a dark A&C piece ca. 1910, the whole thing "reads" as a unit, with the clock handily obscuring the view of the area behind the TV, which is full of cables, speakers and dust. A lot of dust.

In the alternative, mount that bad boy to the wall, with the cables all going through a port in the wall just behind the TV, and then back into the room down by the outlet.

Jakabedy....haha...lots of dust...I hear ya!

Cords are a pet peeve for me and this all came up again because the DVR box stopped working and DH had to pull the console away from the wall to unhook it and install the new one. I got the vacuum out and did my best to scoop up the dust among the the jumble of wires. Out of sight out of mind!

I'll have to talk to DH about mounting the TV on the wall. He's very handy and could do it but he probably won't want to saying it will be a hassle when you need to get to the cords for whatever reason...I can hear him now....lol.

A few inches to the right of the console is the opening to the foyer so can't put anything there to hide the side view.

Joanie, this is the site that I have saved in case I can ever get motivated to mount our TV to the wall....it really looks easy.

Hide those cords!

Thanks maddielee! I will show this to DH.

Just following along. Someday I will have cords in the wall too. Visuals area usually always good for DH's! :)

Just got my bluelounge box. So neat (we're using it to hide an outlet strip with multiple outlets and cords to camera and phone charges, laptop, etc. Unfortunately, there's no way to hide the cords coming out from the box to the device, but I still and very happy not having to look at that mess anymore).

Before and after:

You can get wire covers...they have adhesive backs and can be painted the color of your wall. Not entirely invisible but much better. I believe the big box stores have the long wire covers.

Joaniepoanie - I'm sorry. My comment wasn't meant as an accusation. It was really just a lament. I struggle with both the front and side views, too, but apparently not enough to banish TVs from my house.

Delilah....absolutely no offense taken. The side view bugs me too...but not enough to not have the TV there. DH and I seldom like to watch the same thing so we each have to have our own TV spaces.

I think I've talked him into mounting the TV on the wall....yay! It will,all look much better. I've been perusing wall mounts on Amazon.

Just so you realize that unless you feed the cords through a hole in the wall behind the TV, hiding the cords will actually be harder with a wall-mounted TV than one that sits on a cabinet.

Thanks SJhockey.....I think through the wall is the only way I'm going to get that clean look I'm after. I don't know why I waited so long to address this.

Will this work? It can be cut to any length and painted. I've installed them at least 4 times and it's very easy.

Thanks Annztoo.....I've seen these but don't think it will work here. I've seen these when TV is hung on wall but wires are not buried behind the wall. DH is handy enough to route the wires behind the wall.

We are handy, so we installed a recessed outlet behind the television. I love not looking at the cords!

Recessed tv outlet

Thanks Mabel...I'll show this to DH.