Design Solutions

The Gorse Fox has been struggling with finding a good solution for housing some of his technology. The stuff in the study is no problem, but there is a cupboard under the stairs where all telephone cables enter the house and where the aerials all come together. It is the obvious location for the ADSL router / WiFi hub and the Sonos bridge. The Gorse Fox was looking for a flexible solution that would allow fairly simple access and the ability to move things about.

After wandering round B&Q for a while looking at plywood, at fixings, at corner blocks and goodness knows what else, he had a bit of an epiphany. There was a plastic peg-board designed for tool storage. A little bit of dynamic redesign and he strolled out with bits and pieces and a vague idea.

A couple of hours later the peg-board is held clear of the wall with magnetic catches to allow simple removal. In the gap behind the peg-board the cables are hidden, and on the front Gorse Fox has a 4-way power block, the Netgear router and the Sonos bridge. All very neat and very successful. Incidentally everything, font and back, is held against the peg-board with cable-ties so that everything can be easily removed or re-arranged.