I am working on setting up my Home Theater in a temporary location (2 - 5 years). Someday it will be in my basement. I do not really want to run the speaker wires throught the walls so I was wondering what other options I might have for hiding the speaker wires.

Wiremold makes plastic wireways that are about one inch wide and about 1/4 inch thick, have double-sided adhesive tape on the back, and snap-off covers. Check at your local Home Depot or Lowe's.

Larry
www.fineelectricco.com

If you room is carpeted, you can carefully pull up the carpet and run the wire between the tackless strip and wall and push carpet back down. Caution - the third or fourth time I did this to run a sub to the back of my room, the carpet does not securely fasten in one area. No big deal for my due to furniture placment.

Other option, if you are over an unfinished basement or a basement with drop ceiling, it is easy to drill a hole in your floor and run the wires that way.

IF you're into some redecorating you could buy beefy (beefier?) base moulding and jump on a table saw to dado out a groove on the backside of it. No table saw ? A router table with a cove bit should create enough room for wire. Tell the wife it's a beautification project. (Let us all know if that flies.) Then on your rear wall you can mount your surrounds and fish wire down the wall to a point behind your base moulding. If you have to cross doorways I'd have a carpet layer come and pull it up and retack it, (If you're feeling froggy you could try to fish Monster's flat wire under the carpet to cross the doorways, and that particular wire would only require a shallow groove in the back of the base moulding - in fact some base moulding comes with a groove that MIGHT be just enough for Monster flat). There also MIGHT be enough room for wire at the base of your drywall panels right where the floor meets the wall, but it wouldn't be consistent and you'd still have to R&R the existing baseboard and traverse the doorways.
Real men breach the walls. (And pay for it in time and hardship.)

Better late than never...

We just redid our floor with tile, so I ran the wires up/down the walls and through the attic. However, the room was carpeted before and the wires had to be run across an open walk way. Not wanted to see or feel a bulge in the carpet, I took a masonry blade and cut a thin track in the concrete slab, put the wires in the track, taped them up and, voila, no wires.

Merrill

Real men breach floors.