As some of you may know I have a affection for footlockers. They are good not only for storage but they also make great coffee tables in non-formal areas. When I rearranged the office with the purchase of my new desk I repurposed my current family room coffee table (I mean foot locker).
What started out as a simple idea became a great way to hide wires and other devices.
(I do miss seeing my blinking lights however)
As you can see the foot locker easily holds a router, DSL modem, VOIP adapter, external hard drive, and USB hub.
Then when you close it all up it becomes a handy printer stand for your home office.
This is all made possible by the fact that before carpet was laid I drilled 3 very large holes in the floor for routing wires. All I have to do is pop up the drop ceiling downstairs and I have a fairly free reign to run wiring where I would like. I will not go completely wireless until the “N” products come down in price a little. Plus there are several things that will always have to be wired because of work laptop and VPN.
This concludes my handy somewhat feminine tip for the day now off to the appletini’s. (I mean beer yeah that’s right beer, oh and watch a sports something too.)
That is a great idea. Wish I’d seen that berore I fought all my cables.