Have the cable box built in to a nice piece of custom furniture in one room and was wondering if there was a good small sensor type of extender for the remote you guys would recommend other then this flying scourer below lol

Amazon.com: Next Generation Remote Control Extender: Electronics

 

Great topic! I need to clean up my home entertainment set up too. I'm open to all stealth ideas.

 

Check here - Infrared Repeater Systems at Crutchfield.com

You will want one of the above, there are different solutions to the 'receiver' portion, the Niles company makes an in-wall version in addition to the little table top guy. But basically you wire the exposed 'receiver' into a hub, which then has IR flashers that get stuck onto the devices you want to control in a hidden location.

Here is a mediocre video diagramming how it works: Niles MF1 - Additional images and video