Hiding our Home Office Cords and Wires (With Style)

What follows is the part worth saving when a room has to function on a weekday. Cord clutter – it's hateful, right?! Something that's always bothered me about the house office are the dangling cords under the desk in our built-ins. The cords and wires feed into the sides of the cabinets where our printer, cable box, and other TV components live so they're necessary evils. Really ugly necessary evils.

Well guess what? Those ugly cords and wires picked a battle with the wrong girl – after a simple half hour DIY, they're finally out of my sight…

So instead of walking into the house office and seeing this:

our built-ins are sporting a softer, less cord-cluttered look:

And it couldn't be a simpler DIY – I'll show you what I did! (post includes affiliate links – see my full disclosure statement {here}) All that you need is a small diameter tension rod (I bought {this one}), a length of fabric that's twice the width of the area you're covering (I used leftover fabric from our window seat cushion), and a sewing machine or fusible bonding web like Stitch Witchery. Simply cut the fabric to the right width and length for your space, fold over the top 1 ½″ – 2″ of fabric, iron it down, and then sew it along the bottom of the fold, creating a pocket for the rod. Finally, fold over ½″ of the edge of your fabric along the sides and bottom, iron it flat, and sew it in place.

Since you don't see the unfinished side of the skirt, it doesn't matter if you're a terrible, can't-sew-in-a-straight-line sewer like me. It will still look just fine from the front.

One more office project is officially checked off the list!

looking for another way to reduce the cord clutter in your house? My family charging station is an easy DIY that might be up your alley:

I'll see readers back here tomorrow when I'll be sharing some kept blogger projects!