One morning, I woke up with a sudden, burning hatred for my outlet cover plates. For years, I’d lived in my apartment without a second thought about them, until one day, it hit me: they were hideous. They weren’t unusually offensive either, just the same slightly grimy off-white plates you probably have. But once you see them for the uninspired pieces of plastic they are, there’s no going back.
The thing is, you don’t have just one outlet cover plate; you have many — one for each electrical socket. What’s the point of having a super chic table lamp plugged into an ugly outlet plate? Like putting a bumper sticker on a Bentley. But rather than despair, I saw this as a glass-half-full situation: rather than trying to strategically hide electrical sockets, it meant more canvases to decorate, more opportunities to customize and elevate!
