Invisible Switch by Forbes & Lomax
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!
Umm, have you looked at most walls around an electrical box? Not something I’d want visible….
This would be great to keep the area around the switch clean. And it would perfect over patterned wallpaper, like the photos pictured above.
I can see the punch list now. Looks like someone with no field experience is revisiting a dream about the 70′s?
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.
Cool. It would help to show this diagram so people understand how it works.
http://www.forbesandlomax.com/Images/US_Toggle_switch_diagram.pdf
Thanks Harvey, I have added a photo of that in the post.
That’s pretty neat!
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.