We are gathering ideas for floor plans - Still at the beginning

She said roughly what Alex85 wrote above, namely that these days decorations mostly have LEDs and batteries anyway. I don't really find the tins in the reveal a real eye-catcher either.

My wife always finds the LED things with batteries too dim... still, we have a lot of them... we just always decorate quite a lot.

The problem is that I always need about 20-25 batteries, which I then take out again after Christmas (to prevent leaking). Then I always have tons of half-used batteries lying around.

So I'm not even mad that there's only a double socket "by the TV" here in the old building. A few years ago, two power strips were simply connected to it, and everything was wired in the Hi-Fi cabinet. Much more practical for changes.

And by now, only a screen is plugged into the two sockets. The projector gets power from the other side of the room, and all the equipment is in the corner of the room. With eight sockets in the wall, my wife would now have to put up quite a few plants to hide them...

Is it really that far-fetched to put a power strip inside the Lowboard and connect the devices contained within it to it?
It's not like such a strip has to lie around on the floor.

No, of course it's not far-fetched, you can definitely do that. It's also solved the same way in my current Besta TV cabinet in the bottom compartment. No matter how neatly you’ve organized the cables, at some point you rearrange something and it ends up – at least in my case – in cable chaos... it’s not just the power supplies but also a few network cables, speaker and HDMI cables. I find dedicated sockets for power and network in the wall somehow tidier. But it could also be that the problem is more with the person sitting in front of the cabinet rather than in the cabinet itself. I don’t want to rule that out.

How many sockets do you actually have around the TV? And how do you solve it? All side by side or in two rows?

At the moment, one is occupied by the TV [emoji2]. In another one is the power strip, which was actually supposed to hold the receiver, speakers, Wii, and DVD player. But thanks to the new TV, none of that is needed anymore. Now we have the phone plugged in there, a lamp... oh yes, our new Bose speaker is also plugged into one... Well... who needs more than 3 there anyway [emoji6]

The problem is that I always need about 20-25 batteries, which I then remove again after Christmas (to prevent leaking). Then I always have countless half-empty batteries lying around

How about rechargeable batteries? Just take them out at the end of the season, recharge them, and that's that.

I do see a problem too, but that's more my wife's issue, as I'm absolutely not a Christmas decoration person. If you have a lot of battery/LED solutions, you then have to turn them on and off individually throughout the whole house like a good night watchman. I can imagine how that could get annoying...

nice neighbors, it also worked out 5/6