Hidden Sky System - Elddis Golden Crown Signet

Cheap (£7) Sky box lives under the very front end of the left hand settee/bed, next to the battery box, so not taking any bedding room up. Its to the left of the central drawer unit in the image below.

The Sky dish lead runs from the under bed storage area into the battery box where it can be curled up for transport. The lead then exits the bottom of battery box door alongisde the mains hookup power lead and then connects to Sky dish.

The RF aerial lead runs from the Sky box to a "magic eye", along with a 5m scart lead and the TVs mains power lead. The leads are then routed round the back of the underbed storage are (in an Ikea cable tidy), then through side of the central dresser unit and then up behind the fridge and through dresser worktop using office style desk grommit. The cables are kept in place with cable ties so they're neat and out of the way of bedding storage, or touching the back of the warm fridge.

The wires come out onto the dresser where we place the TV, so that it can be connected without having to trial wires anywhere or run leads across the worktop to the sockets.

The TV then goes in place and no messy wires trailing.

It has built in DVD, and Freeview, although we've not bothered with an aerial for freeview as we've always managed to get a signal with Sky.

We did orginally have an old Sky+ box, but as we never bothered taking the sky card away with us, plus the noise the fan made inside it, we got rid and replaced it with a fanless Sky digital box.

Think for our 2 week holiday we'll take the HD box from home.