While I wait for a decision on my Listed Building Application, I've been looking at the trivial question of electric fittings. I remember seeing some good links on a thread on this forum.
In other buildings I'd always done restoration and renovation, then painted everything white. So £3 reclaimed industrial steel fittings looked good, £7 flat plate brushed steel looked good http://tiny.cc/WtVqT and even white plastic blended in.
In the house I'm doing now I want to use traditional colours and in some cases, leave the old walls stripped back, exposing the aged original paint.
On the whole, I'm against making new things look Georgian, but especially with the new regs, electrical fittings are in prominent visible places and brilliant white or brushed steel rectangles dotted all over might detract from the general appearance.
This is a picture from The Paul Cotton Museum, Quex House where old and new side by side:
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I prefer the old ones.
I looked around and found these from http://www.broughtons.com/ but at £39 for a double socket and £47 for a single rocker swich they are well beyond my budget
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wile looking at these from http://www.forbesandlomax.co.uk/
I came across the painted range, the front plate is etched and can be removed and painted to match the wall. Again, very expensive
I was wondering what would happen if I painted one of these from screwfix http://tiny.cc/2Aq2C or tried aging it... I see it says "brass effect"
In other buildings I'd always done restoration and renovation, then painted everything white. So £3 reclaimed industrial steel fittings looked good, £7 flat plate brushed steel looked good http://tiny.cc/WtVqT and even white plastic blended in.
In the house I'm doing now I want to use traditional colours and in some cases, leave the old walls stripped back, exposing the aged original paint.
On the whole, I'm against making new things look Georgian, but especially with the new regs, electrical fittings are in prominent visible places and brilliant white or brushed steel rectangles dotted all over might detract from the general appearance.
This is a picture from The Paul Cotton Museum, Quex House where old and new side by side:
View attachment 2
I prefer the old ones.
I looked around and found these from http://www.broughtons.com/ but at £39 for a double socket and £47 for a single rocker swich they are well beyond my budget
View attachment 1
wile looking at these from http://www.forbesandlomax.co.uk/
I came across the painted range, the front plate is etched and can be removed and painted to match the wall. Again, very expensive
I was wondering what would happen if I painted one of these from screwfix http://tiny.cc/2Aq2C or tried aging it... I see it says "brass effect"