By The French do what they know best, fashion, everywhere, even if it’s about the light switches on the walls of your home. So how can a simple piece of plastic that is a switch become more fashionable?
Well, it’s actually more simple than you think. The French reckon the best way to do this is to simply eliminate it altogether.
Instead of using an ugly purpose built light switch, the trend mad French want you to use your wall. To be specific, they want you to use the paint on your walls.
One sort of paint that’s especially created to serve as a light switch. In fairness, the concept of walls acting as switches doesn’t belong to all the French people, just to a design firm from the Hexagon which is called Quarks.
Quarks came up with a manufacturing process that allows for a fusion of the actual paint and embedded electronics. By doing so, the entire painted surface effectively becomes the switch.
Paint Switch
Fashionable or not, I reckon this is one great idea. Naturally you have to connect the paint to some sort of wiring to make it work but that should be less cumbersome than installing a traditional on/off switch.
You’d get away from having to hide the circuit through most of the height of the wall as well as making a hole big enough to actually accommodate the device. All of that goes away or is greatly reduced.
This means that the wall’s eye level area (which is where you pay the most attention) is now clean. Apparently the system can be hooked up to just about anything from lights to curtain rollers and even supports dimming and timing.
Before I start praising Quarks too much for their switch in the paint idea I do have a few questions I’d like to ask:
My Switch
What’s the cost for this sort of paint?
How environmentally friendly is the “switch” paint?
And what’s the availability situation?
Once that’s settled I’d just have fun by gifting this to people with small kids that run touching the wall.