Having just downsized to a smaller more central apartment, I can understand this. There's no room in this place to shove my array of techno toys in a cupboard;

Having just downsized to a smaller more central apartment, I can understand this. There's no room in this place to shove my array of techno toys in a cupboard; instead, there's an ugly corner of the room that's currently a mess of cables and junk. I'm sizing up a little rack cabinet and some rack-mount gear to hide/tidy things into, but even then, if this thing has to sit out permanently, I can see the appeal of a braided network cable or some such to make it a little less unsightly. Shrug.