Cable Management: A Tour of My Home Office Setup

As you can see from the video, my home office setup is quite extensive, with multiple monitors, a keyboard, mouse, microphone, and soundbar all connected to various devices. The cables are what make this setup truly impressive, or rather, what makes it look like it's impressive from a distance. However, if you were to look underneath the desk, things would be a completely different story.

The majority of my cables are mounted to the desk via classic cable tie mounts that have adhesive on them. They run through little plastic cable channels and loops, keeping everything organized and tidy. I use plenty of velcro cable ties underneath there as well, which really helped with cable management and keeping all the cables in one group. It's a bit of a jumbled mess down there, but it gets the job done.

The cables are powered in the corner of my room, behind a bed that used to be here. The bed frame now covers all these cables, hiding them from view. However, since I moved away from that spot, everything is now laid out on the floor. It's not ideal, but it's better than having everything exposed.

One of the most impressive things about my cable management system is how well it looks from a distance. When you're in the room and move around, you can't see any cables at all. It's like everything is wireless. The setup is very clean, and I'm proud of what I've achieved with this setup.

However, if you were to look closely, you'd notice that there are still plenty of cables running underneath the desk. They're all powered in the corner, connected via USB extension cords. This is where my plan for improvement comes in – I want to drill holes in the desk and route my keyboard cable through it, making it look like it's wireless.

I also have a microphone arm that needs some TLC when it comes to cable management. The microphone cable runs from here across here, connecting to my USB microphone, which is an Audio-Technica AT2020 cardioid microphone. I've managed this with velcro cable ties, which are stuck under the desk using adhesive and then routed through little plastic channels.

My webcam also needs some attention when it comes to cable management. The webcam cable runs from here across here and connects to my microphone, which is out at the bottom. Both cables are routed underneath the table, hiding them from view. This way, all you see is the microphone arm, making it look like a neat little package.

As I mentioned earlier, I'm planning to improve this setup further in the near future. There's still plenty I'd like to change, including my keyboard and mouse setup. The keyboard cable currently runs across underneath my soundbar, which isn't ideal when the LEDs are on. Once I get around to buying a drill, I plan to route that cable through the desk, making it look even neater.

I'm also thinking of drilling another hole for my RGB mousepad cable, running it through the desk and powering everything via USB extension cords. With this setup, I want to be able to move around freely without worrying about cables getting in the way or being visible from a distance. It's all about creating an ideal workspace that looks clean and organized from every angle.

For now, however, my home office setup is perfect just the way it is – functional and impressive at the same time. I hope you've enjoyed this tour of my cable management system and learned something new about how to keep your own cables under control.

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sockets and power extension cords and stuff so let me walk you through all the setup and air-con how everything came together ah yes so on the wall here we have the two power sockets the one on the right here is for my PC and one on the left is for various extension cords as in the monitors my router just loads of other stuff like that and then we also have an ADSL cable this is my phone line and then a and then a micro filter or an ADSL filter that converts the signal from I guess your phone line to your ADSL modem which I'm currently with BT Infinity - that's my internet service provider and here's my router is - do you see your generic PT router if you're wondering what internet speeds I have I'll put a video up on the screen right now I'm currently getting around roughly under 10 milliseconds ping most of the time as well as 75 megabits download speed as well as 19 megabits upload speed so the speeds are very consistent with the BT Infinity - so far I rarely ever have any problems with the so so far it's been great my internet is fantastic it's not the best but it's very good it's a big improvement from what I used to have back in the day anyway moving on to all the power extensions and all the power sockets here and there are a lot of things powered up here so first of all we have a three port power extension here connected to a temp or two power extension right here so we have a tp-link smart switch right here that controls all my monitors so this smart switch is connected to this a free port of a power extension cord here this is a full monitor one the monitor on the left of the table then the middle one and then the one on the right because this is a smart switch I've connected it to my Amazon echo so I can do this Alexa turn off monitors there yeah it's um the monitors off and then Alexa turn on monitors okay there you go and then the monitors have turned back on so it's a pretty cool smart switch I'll leave a link in the description down below to the smart switches to see gasps and you'll pick it up if you'd like to by the way you quickly disclaimer everything you see in this setup including the power extensions pretty much just about everything you see here is linked down below in the description then and that includes for Germany Canada United Kingdom and United States all the links are with genius links so they'll send you to the right website once you click on the link so anyway let's move on with the rest of the video so here's my smart switch for the monitors moving on we have a four port anchor charger right here this is the anchor power lives for light I believe it's called anyway it's a 27 watt wall charger with four USB ports as you can see this uses anchors fast charging technology which I believe is called their power IQ as well as the voltage boost the technology to pretty much optimize your charging time for any device that you plug into it anyway it just pretty much provides very quick charging times for various stars and stuff and I would personally recommend it as if you charge your phone by plug it into your PC you probably have to wait quite a long time until your phone actually charges however if you plug it into one of these and you also use a high quality cable from anchor example your phone will charge much much faster so yeah that's my 4 port charger that I use every night to charge up my phone my air pods just various USB devices around the house anyway moving on we have I believe this is the LED strip power let me unplug it and find out oh and oh this is my router I just unplugged my router by accident this is the power supply for the router which is right there as I mentioned earlier moving on we have a free port power extension just like this one here but this one is behind these subwoofer over there it's a pretty much behind there to power but the subwoofer the sound bar as well as my Amazon echo spot in the corner there as well so that powers all of those so just so you know this is a 10 sake of power extension and this one here how was my spare battery for my canon g7x that i'm recording this video on right now so this is just always charging up the spare battery for the camera and right next to it we also have the power supply for my LED strip which is mounted behind the desk over there I believe it's roughly a two point five meter at LED strip mounted behind the desk which is also connected to a smart LED strip controller that works with Wi-Fi and this is just your general LED strip it's nothing fancy snow Philips you saw this LED strip can be controlled via an app on your phone called magic home as well as via Alexa however Alexa is currently yeah it's having trouble connecting to the internet as I accidentally unplugged my router moving on as you may be wondering how all these actually get to the PC and the monitors and stuff and all the various and devices that I have on my desk all these devices here and there are so many cables here by the way it's crazy so all these cables here they all go into this plastic cable channel that's underneath my radiator here and I bought this from screw fix and in the UK and I'll leave a link to that in the description down below to a similar item that I found on Amazon so you can buy one of these I guess the cable trunking kit so I'm sure what to call it really anyway it's just like a plastic cable channel that you can put all your cables inside off and if I move this out of the way you'll see that there are plenty of tables all jumbled up together inside this plastic we channel so I've got all my cable inside there and they all are pretty much hidden inside the dispenser cable channel and then they all exit out off in the corner of my room and the desk of course and all these cables they run up the corner of my table leg right here pretty pretty much behind at the table leg entirely so they all run up there and all the power cables for the monitors the subwoofer the LED strip and stuff they all go to the left of the desk and power all the devices there and my power cable and Ethernet cable for the PC go up through there and how the PC moving on from my PC I have various USB cables and stuff and just loot loads of stuff running from there they're all cable managed via a couple velcro cable ties from visual they all run down through there once again all these cables run down the corner of this table leg right here and all the USB cables run from there all the way across here and there's a few that plug in through here into my microphone and webcam right there and the rest of these cables run all along through here and then into my if it triple monitor desk mount or clamp type thing and they all run through there and all these cables they come out behind my monitor arm right here and all the monitor power cables and display cables run up through the monitor around it through these little plastic cable channels right here these little loops that the cables it can run through they run through here and through another loop of course into my monitors which is just the HDMI cable and a power cord so each of the monitors here and I have three monitors so that's a total of six cables that run into the monitors alone then we also have my keyboard we have my mouse my mouse map my answer neck hose spot we have loads of devices here we have the sound bar of course that that needs a lot of cables there's one for the subwoofer there's one for power and then as they might be USB cable that connects to my PC so there's tons of cables there and they're all pretty much just kind of the desk the majority of the cables mounted here are mounted to the desk via a bunch of classic cable tie mounts that have adhesive on them and they are stuck onto the table and then I use a couple plastic cable ties to the cables through them and then through all the cables I also use plenty of velcro cable ties underneath there as well that really helped with cable managing everything and keeping all the cables in one group I guess so all the cables are just like jumbled up together underneath the desk it does look pretty bad when you look underneath the desk oh yes however when you are in the room and you will really ever like you go over to this angle Sachi look at the killer management so generally the cave management looks brilliant from every other angle you pretty much can't see anything in the setup entirely looks very clean as if there's no cables whatsoever it's like everything is Wireless but it isn't all the cables are just jumbled up together underneath the desk they run down that table leg right there through this plastic cable channel and they are all powered in the corner of my room and what I used to have a bed here my bed frame would actually cover all these cables and the router and everything so you just have no idea how anything is powered really however now I don't have a better me more as I mentioned earlier everything is kind of just laying on the floor here so yeah that's pretty much it I mean there's not really too much else that I can show you that's the majority of the cable management I mean a couple tips I can give you if you have a microphone arm I guess you could cable manage the microphone cable by using a couple of velcro cable ties as I did here so you have your microphone cable I have a USB microphone and this is the audio technica at2020 USB cardioid microphone it's a great microphone link in the solution and down below of course so I have a couple velcro cable ties here they they go down through here there's this another one here I also cable managed my webcam cable as well and the webcam a cable runs from here across here and also is connected to my microphone out at the bottom here and both these cables are out behind the microphone arm as you can see there so they're pretty much out of sight all you see is the microphone arm which is good and then they all route underneath the table of course then underneath here and connect to the PC so that's pretty much it for this video just a quick little tour of the setup and how I've actually powered everything and kill managed everything I will probably releasing a full guide for cable management in the future as there are quite a few things I'd still like to improve on this setup and that and one of them being my keyboard so as you can see right here my keyboard cable currently runs across well underneath my my sound bar which is an ideal it doesn't look very good at all especially once the sound bar LEDs are on let me just find the remote and turn them off so yeah once the sound bar LEDs are on as you can see the cable icarus runs underneath of LEDs and you can really see it which is not very good so in the near future I will be buying your drill and drilling a hole in the desk zoom two routes for my keyboard wire through to pretty much make the keyboard look Wireless that's my plan - for the future - pretty much I just route that cable through the table I might even drill another hole for my RGB mouse bar right here and drill and tummy a little hole for through here just to route the Razer Firefly mouse mat cable through there through the desk and then pretty much just power everything either underneath the desk via USB extension cords and stuff and yeah that's pretty much it for this video thank you very much for watching I hope you have enjoyed it and I hope you've learned or at least gotten some valuable information about cable management here I will be releasing a full card in the near future so subscribe and leave a like if you haven't already and I hope to see you guys in another video soon goodbye\n"