I am obsessed with managing cables. HDMI, power, network, fiber, you name it. It all needs to be managed. This is beyond wrapping up a power cord when putting it away or keeping headphone cables untangled. The time, effort, and money spent on keeping cables just so is a little embarrassing. Not just my own cables of course, but the ones I own are the ones with the greatest level of control.
Several jobs and years ago making wiring look clean was already a thing for me.
Several years go living in a small one bedroom apartment with an odd floor plan really set me down the path of obsession. The layout of the apartment, and my own furniture made placing the television stand in the middle of the living room my best option. The back of the TV could be seen from the adjoining eat-in kitchen, and this set me to making the cables, and equipment look as clean as possible.
I've since stopped using some of this equipment, but at the time I had a Logitech Harmony Hub, a Nintendo Switch, and a Playstation 4. The television, which I still use, was made prior to the current trend of small little v-shaped legs placed at the far ends of the TV. The large heavy base really made all of this possible. I wanted to hide as many of the devices, and not have cables running everywhere. After seeing a a Reddit post I used the same board mounted to the VESA points on the back of the TV idea. From there some zip ties helped get a few things hidden. This was a quick and dirty solution so of course I had to improve on the concept.
(I had to pull this first version from the trash to document the evolution of this project so excuse the weird stain in the corner.)
For version two of this I upped the ante by laying out the placement of all the equipment on the board using AutoCAD.
After measuring, and testing a few different layouts I was happy with things in CAD I added measurements and center marks for the holes I needed to drill. Using only hand tools in making this lead to a few scrapped pieces with cuts not straight enough, or slightly out of square sides. The finished product looked good, but not good enough for me!
The final version of this added some cutouts to guide cables, moved things around, and that allowed me to buy even more short cables. I added a few handmade power cables for good measure. It was finally done! Of course I moved from there about a year later, and in the move got rid of the board I made. I do wish I had kept it, even if just as the physical representation of all the time and effort.
My next apartment, my current one, has slowly had more and more computer equipment added with my shift into a full-time IT career. All of that equipment has its own type of cables that I have tied, wrapped or mounted to the Nth degree.
This all needs a steady supply of zip ties, velcro, 3M Command hooks, and various other bits. All of that needs a container, and that needs labels... I might have a problem.
Not owning my own house has probably saved me a lot when it comes to this topic, since renting limits the damage I can do. No adding conduit to walls/floors for me, not yet anyway.