All my cords are behind my PC desk in a corner. At worst I only bash my head every now and then when I'm crawling under the desk to vac around the cords. I even run my surround speakers out by the walls of my living room so there's no wires to trip over/damage, as I did in the prior place I lived at. Sorry to sound like I'm not accident prone at times, because I truly am anymore at 68 after a workout especially. A tip is better than a 1000 trips though I guess.
On the subject of speaker wires. I'd thought my left front HT speaker was on the fritz when my AVR showed all speakers connected, but the LF was not audible in tests. Then I found out just having the wires a bit too loose was causing it. I wish the backs of my front speakers had banana plug jacks like my AVR. I should probably at least coat the tips of the speaker wire with solder and use a socket wrench to tighten the terminals. It's on my to do list along with all the other things I should do but haven't gotten around to.