Covered Light Switch & Outlet Plates

I promised when I revealed the nursery that I was going to share a couple of the DIY projects I did in there.

The first one I am going to share is pretty simple and probably self explanatory but I love the result so I want to share it anyway.

Here you can see her Light Switch cover.

Here you can see 1 of her 3 outlet covers.

I had seen these before but thanks to the wonderfulness of pinterest I was reminded them at the perfect time.

This is the one I saw on pinterest.  Cute right?!

They're $3.50-$5.50 (excluding shipping) online and since I had everything I needed to make them at home I figured why not!

So!  Here we go with how I did them.

My outlet and switch plates were the lovely (ugly) dirty cream look.  They aren't expensive to replace when you're replacing 1 or 2 but when we have half a house of them to replace it adds up.  This was the perfect way to use what I already had.

Step 1 - figure out what part of your pattern you want covering our plates and then trace them out.

  Step 2 - using an xacto knife and a cutting mat under it cut out your pieces. (I did trace out the areas for the switch and the outlets but once I got going it made more sense to cut them out after I had the paper on and it was dried 1st)

Step 3 - With a sponge brush put a layer of mod podge on both the plate and the back of your paper

Step 4 - Smooth your paper onto your plate and put a coat of Mod Podge over it.  Once that dries use your xacto knife and from the back side put a hole in the paper so you know where you're cutting and then just going slowly cut out the area.  As you can see in this picture I cut my paper a little bit small but since I knew I was going to paint all my edges to make sure everything was nice and clean it wasn't a big deal.  

Step 5 - with just a little bit of paint on the sponge brush go around all your edges inside and out from the front and the back.  Once the paint dries start on your layers of mod podge.  I ended up putting about 5 layers of mod podge on these letting them dry between each coat.  I wanted them nice and covered so that I could wipe them down when I was dusting because sadly we all know they get dirty!

Step 6 - (not shown here - sorry) Since all the screws were white, that didn't really work with my covers so I painted the tops of them black also.

And there you go.  My finished covers.  Her room doesn't have a lot of them but they were just one more added something and I loved the way they turned out!

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