Forbes & Lomax’s invisible switch series consists of a variety of light switches and plugs with an invisible acrylic surround, making it much lovelier to have lots of plugs and switches in your room. They also have a painted range, which come primed ready for you to put on the final coat.
Old boring white eyesores be gone!
Seth on 06.18.2010 at 11:56 AM
Umm, have you looked at most walls around an electrical box? Not something I’d want visible….
Axelrod on 06.18.2010 at 12:15 PM
This would be great to keep the area around the switch clean. And it would perfect over patterned wallpaper, like the photos pictured above.
bruekelen on 06.18.2010 at 12:52 PM
I can see the punch list now. Looks like someone with no field experience is revisiting a dream about the 70′s?
dogsbody on 06.19.2010 at 13:31 PM
They look nice, but I’m with Seth on this one. In my mind, the point of a switchplate is to cover the hella-nasty crapped up hole in the wall plaster, which is usually at least slightly larger than the switch or plug. In these pics, the plugs etc. look like they’re glued to the surface of the wallpaper!
Anyway, you certainly couldn’t just pop these on. You’d be rebuilding the wall around the plug at the time of wallpapering.
Harvey on 06.19.2010 at 22:39 PM
Cool. It would help to show this diagram so people understand how it works.
http://www.forbesandlomax.com/Images/US_Toggle_switch_diagram.pdf
Jaime (post author) on 06.20.2010 at 10:49 AM
Thanks Harvey, I have added a photo of that in the post.
dogsbody on 06.20.2010 at 11:01 AM
That’s pretty neat!
Charles on 01.02.2011 at 14:23 PM
How is this affected by the accessibility requirement of BS7671? The terminations need to be periodically inspected. I suppose sampling would allow an inspector to avoid disturbing these lovely fittings, and an inspection could be arranged prior to redecoration every ten years or so. A property with this kind of installation might be decorated in hand-printed stuff though e.g. an MP’s second home or garage.