Network cabinet

I built this cabinet to hide the wires near the network, phone, and TV jacks. I used IKEA "wood" cut into strips on a table saw. The cabinet door is also from IKEA, and matches the other furniture in the room. I made sure to have plenty of ventilation by leaving gaps at the top and bottom of the door as well as at the back. I measured the temperature inside, and it was just slightly above ambient.
This cabinet blocks the annoying light from the network equipment in case someone wants to sleep near it. It will also keep dust out.

Before organizing the wires

Building the cabinet was the easy part. The hard part was doing the cable management. There are 3 boxes, 3 AC adapters, a power strip, a phone splitter, 3 phone cords, 5 ethernet cables, and a coax cable. It took lots of Velcro straps to keep the cables tidy. It would be nice to have shorter ethernet cables that don't need to be looped.

After organizing the wires (and adding an additional box and AC adapter)