Yikes! Christmas brought a Wii, and a Wii brought a lot of “stuff” with it.
I’ve mentioned before that I have big plans for the space underneath my TV, but I’m going to need big funds to do it. In other words, it’s gonna be a while. This little table is one that simply found a home here when I needed it to hold the DVR box and DVD player. However, the thing I hate about it is all the wires. My good-intentioned husband put that white tubey thing on them thinking that it “hides” them. Um, unless they make invisible tubey things that, in turn, make your wires invisible, that’s not gong to work.
So, needing a new solution that would hide the wires and all of that Wii “stuff,” I headed to Hobby Lobby. I picked up 3 yards of a neutral colored cotton canvas with the hopes of making a slipcover for the table.
Once home, I cut a piece of canvas large enough to cover the top of the table. I wanted it to hang down just over the edge over the table.
Then, I took the remaining fabric (which was about 1.5 times the width of the table) and attached it to the top cover with pins. The fabric was folded widthwise so that I didn’t have to worry about a hem on the bottom edge of the skirt. The selvage edges are at the top where it’s pinned. I pinned it on the sides first and then worked towards the little pleat in the front.
After pinning it, I tried to use iron-on Velcro to attach the skirt to the top piece. That plan failed miserably, as iron-on Velcro just wasn’t strong enough to hold the canvas. So, I grabbed my trusty glue gun (really! I did!) and glued the skirt to the top piece. It worked perfectly! I had some grosgrain ribbon on hand, and I just hot glued that on top of my seam. I glued fabric to fabric so I wouldn’t have to damage the table itself.
Voila! It’s certainly not perfect, but I think it looks much better than all of those cords and wires! Plus, we are able to store our Wii games and accessories under the table, and it’s all hidden by a pretty little skirt.
This was incredibly easy to throw together, and now I’m no longer the only one in my house who wears a skirt. Do you think you have a use for something like this in your own home?
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Like it! You may also want to check out this one, a piece of glass put on top!
http://littlegreennotebook.blogspot.com/2009/08/skirted-console-table.html
It looks fabulous!
) Trish
Great idea! It looks terrific.
I love it! It looks great, and you make it look so easy!
Ooh, you did a great job! I love how well it looks in your room. Stop by and visit me sometime!
http://songberries.blogspot.com
Oh my gosh what an improvement! That instantly cleaned up the entire room! Great job Lindsay!
Fabulous!! I think it looks great. I sewed a skirt with pleats for my glass top table/desk in our addition. I love it b/c it hides so much.
Great idea, and it looks so much "cleaner" with the skirt. My husband got a horrid console one day while out "guy'ing" around with my nephew. After arguing for 20 minutes about why I said it was NOT coming in my house, it found it's "temporary" home under our tv. Riiiiight. I'm about to take some paint to it, and some fabric & baskets. We have a Wii & a 360. All the "stuff" looks so messy. Thanks for the inspiration!
Great idea. I love glue guns and all the magic you can do with them. So much better than those white tubey things. God bless the hubbies.
Awesome idea!
Thanks!
Wires are always trying to nasty things up, aren't they. Very nice fix!
Very clever of you! I have a similar table that I ended up painting and putting on my porch. Never thought of making a skirt for it!!
Great solution! Good job!
Aren't you the clever one! That is a great idea. I only sew by hand, no machine so love the no sew deal. If you want to LOL look @ my last post. Talk about hokey but I was like you. I needed to conceal some things. Well I did, but it's a hoot! It is 7 a.m. and in two hrs. I will be watching chemo drip into my veins, Yuck! But the alternative is not so great. Check you later. nancy http://www.rivieraboardwalk.blogspot.com
Brilliant! What a great quick fix for a problem area.
I love it!! But where are the cables from the tv to the other things? I see the tv suspended (really want mine to do that) but no wires connecting the tv to the wii and the dvr.
Karly- All of the component wires are run in the wall behind the TV.
So, the TV's power cord, the Wii aux wires, the Wii sensor wires, and the HDMI component wire from the DVR run from an "outlet" behind the TV down and out of an "outlet" near the floor and under the table. The rest of the power cords and junk just run down behind the components and behind the table.
So did you do that yourself or pay someone to do it for you?
great solution!!
your house is so nice!