Total noob question follows: so I bought a house (first one, grats me!), and I'm wiring the living room for audio so there aren't cables snaking everywhere (I actually don't have a problem with this, ...

Last time i was in Supermetronic on College Street, they had high gauge flat speaker wire for less than 50 cents a foot. It's not the super flat stuff that you can paint over and nobody will notice it ...