Out with your plastic wall switch plates!

Ceramic, copper, brass, wood, slate, pewter make more attractive wall switch plates don't they? Different material won't be the only upgrade you will find. Things that you and I might not imagine, others have imagined, and created marvelous, non-drab switch plates.

Flea Market Brainstorming

When you're looking for wall switch plates but need some ideas to seed your imagination, take a look at eBay. It's a great place to get ideas about what's available. You could even find something you love!

Where to Buy

In your search for the best switch plates for your home, you want to stop by the online display of Art Plates whose home is Rancho Cucamonga between Los Angeles and San Bernardino in California. One of the notable features you will find is that they offer screwless switch plates. They are snap-on wall switch plates. Not all configurations are available to you in the snap-ons, but if you'd just rather not mount with screws, here's a good option for you. As their name implies, these are very artistic handcrafted switch plates. You will find fine art (masterpiece), ballet and dance, animal, children's, cat and dog and many other themed switch plates. It's worth your while. Don't miss the whimsical theme...

If you're not looking for your wall switch plates to be quite as artsy as those at Art Plates, but want them to be classy, take a look at MyKnobs' wall switch plate collection. You start your search by selecting the configuration you need - 1 toggle, 2 toggle, etc. Once you select that, you can filter your choices by brand and finish. For instance, you could choose the Emenee brand and opt to purchase the fun "silverware" switch plate that has a spoon, fork and knife relief on it for your kitchen. The Liberty Acorn is another model and is in attractive pewter.

When you're looking for fun, colorful and non-standard size/shape switch plates, stop by at Nancy DeYoung Studio of Grand Rapids, Michigan. If these hand-painted ceramic tile items don't stand out at your home, you've already got a colorful house! Imagine "Coffee" in your kitchen, "Dog" in your mudroom, the comb and toothbrush "Bathroom" in - where else? - the bathroom. Then again, you might want the "Mixed Fruit" or "Mixed Vegetables" in your kitchen. Take a look.

From the frosty north of Grand Rapids, hop on down to Ashville, North Carolina's Good Night Irene for more wall switch plates. Created by baking polymer clay onto a "normal" switch plate, you will find designs such as ferns, spirals, deco texture, hieroglyphics, neo-fossils, horizontal patterns and moon and stars. When you visit, make her about page one of your stops. It shows that we can look at all of our life experience as ingredients for our future.

It would hardly be complete for you to not visit SwitchHits, originally of Perdido Key, Florida, but now of Hamburg, New York on the shore of Lake Erie (a hurricane related move). Their online business is over ten years in operation and has one of the widest selections of switch plates available. You too may be enamored of their funky ceramic collection once you see them. There is something for everybody at SwitchHits.

How to Search for Wall Switch Plates

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Google : Yahoo : MSN : Visimo : IxQuick : DogPile

Open Directory : Yahoo Directory : eBay

Choices, Choices, Choices

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