Most people overlook the presence of the wall plate covers and how much it can change the feel of the interior in their home. Switch plate covers are available in many options. For instance on steelappeal.com you will find a wide range of cover styles from rustic/cabin, contemporary, and even plain with different finishes. The great thing about changing your wall plates is it’s general inexpensive, you try a few to find what you like, and over time slowly change over your whole house, or room by room. In my own house the style is very modern. Stainless steel, grays, blacks, and reds. To my wife and my surprise we found that the plain copper patina looked the best. We tried a ton of different styles from brushed steel to polished steel, white and black. For us, we found that we liked the warm earth tones of the copper patina, and they didn’t take away from anything else in our house.
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A Simple Way to Change Your Interior
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Multi Leaf Picture Frame
Monday, February 8th, 2010Roughly two years ago I was asked by my wife to make some picture frames for the pictures we would be getting for our three children. At the time I never could have imagined how much of a market there would be for such a product. For this post I would like to feature my personal favorite picture frame to date. This picture frame features an assortment of oak leaf, maple leaf, and aspen. The leaves are carefully hand torched achieving amazing colors ranging from yellow, orange, purple, and blue. The frame around the leaves is speed sanded to give a contemporary look and depth. Holding three 5×7 photos and beveled matting, and offset from the wall by 1.25″.
