{"id":16104,"date":"2012-12-02T16:32:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T21:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=16104"},"modified":"2016-09-18T22:21:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T19:21:45","slug":"dealing-with-electronic-cables-once-and-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/dealing-with-electronic-cables-once-and-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing With Electronic Cables Once and For All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s project came together more easily and wonderfully than I would have thought! I guess I deserve an easy project once in a while. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Now, I don&#8217;t want to get into too much detail about my electronic set up, but the following pictures should give you a general idea of the way I got my electronic cables coraled once and for all!<\/p>\n<p>I started off with another Closetmaid product from Target:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16105\" title=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/5-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/5-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/5-619x401.jpg 619w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/5.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As delivered, the unit was too high for me to comfortably view my monitor. Before I cut it down, I spent some time at Walmart this morning looking for bins that would fill the shelf horizontally and depth-wise, and which would then give me an idea of how much of the legs to cut off. I also cut the second shelf-length-wise to get a front panel for my new shelf.<\/p>\n<p>End result:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16106\" title=\"6\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/6-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/6-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/6-619x464.jpg 619w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/6.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only cables that are now visible are the ones that I absolutely have to plug into my computer.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the front panel are bins that hold my\u00a0 cables, with one of them being a charging station of sorts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMGP4452.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16108\" title=\"IMGP4452\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMGP4452-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMGP4452-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMGP4452-619x464.jpg 619w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMGP4452.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, the only cables running under the desks are the power bar cords.<\/p>\n<p>I felt a little silly today sawing handles off beautiful storage totes then drilling holes in them, but they were the perfect-size containers for my project.<\/p>\n<p>Next step in my office setup is to get an external monitor and then I think my workspace will be as near to perfect as possible!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s project came together more easily and wonderfully than I would have thought! I guess I deserve an easy project once in a while. \ud83d\ude42 Now, I don&#8217;t want to get into too much detail about my electronic set up, but the following pictures should give you a general idea of the way I got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,635,5,613,9,3,16,612],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homemaking","category-north-america","category-rving","category-suffolk","category-tech","category-travel","category-usa","category-virginia-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}