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Adding more boho decor with wooden DIY light switch covers

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I couldn’t just stop at woodburning geometric wood wall art. You guys know me better than that! I had to keep on going. Well, updating your home on a budget can definitely be a challenge. Sometimes the slightest little changes can make a big impact though. One of those slight big impact changes are light switch covers. I really dislike old light switch cover plates and we had three left in our living room that bothered me immensely. So when I was woodburning the wall art a couple of weeks ago, I had the idea of making DIY light switch covers to finally make those cover plates prettier and so they would match the rest of our home.

I don’t mind that we have more modern covers in the rest of our home. I like mixing and matching just as I do with metals and other finishes.

boho wooden DIY light switch covers

Boho DIY light switch covers

Materials needed:

  • unfinished wood light switch cover plate
  • woodburning pattern (download mine HERE or doodle your own)
  • wood burning kit/tool ( I have this one HERE)
  • carbon paper for transferring pattern
  • pencil
  • tape
  • pliers
  • screwdriver to hang plate
  • varnish and sponge brush optional (I used polycrylic)
  • respirator masks to protect from burning fumes (optional, I guess you can use a scarf or a bandana as well)

materials needed for wooden DIY light switch cover

Instructions for boho wooden DIY light switch covers

I have added lots of boho home decor details over the past couple of years and it can even be added with simple home hardware like light switch cover plates. To me, it’s all in the little details.

Below you can see what the old light switch cover looked like before. I mean most of us in older homes have them, right?

yucky old tan light switch cover

And here are the cheap unfinished wood light switch covers I bought.

plain wood light switch cover

The slightly angled tip pictured below is my favorite for burning lines and was used for the majority of the switch cover. Except for the dots which I used a round pointy tip for.

woodturning tool tip used for DIY woodburned light switch cover

One day at my work, I doodled some patterns for the wooden switch plate. I tried a couple of times and the below version is what ended up being my favorite. If you like it then you can download my pattern HERE. A new window will open with a PDF that you can save to your desktop so you can print it.

handdrawn mandala pattern for light switch cover

Cut a piece of transfer paper to fit the light switch cover. It’s a lot easier to tape it that way.

taping carbon transfer paper to the wooden light switch cover

Cut your pattern to the right size to fit the cover.

Then tape the trimmed paper with the pattern to the transfer paper covered light switch plate.

taping the pattern to the transfer paper covered light switch

Watch my video tutorial below for all the wood-burning details!

Click on the triangle in the image to watch the video tutorial:

 

To finish the plates you can add the polycrylic to protect the switch covers from dirty hands as I did with a sponge brush

The finished wooden DIY light switch cover

finished mandala wood burned light switch cover

The following photos are a little photoshopped for full disclosure just to show you how nice the switch looks with the rest of the decor. You can see the actual white modern light switch cover plate to the right.

plain white light switch in living room

 

 

And in the below photo I moved the new switch over a bit so you could see. I love it!

boho woodburned light switch cover in neutral living room

Here is the switch next to the TV over the blue faux grasscloth Ikea Besta dresser.

closeup of wooden DIY light switch cover on the wall

This darn switch by the TV is driving me crazy because I don’t know what it controls. I know that usually, those types of switches should be related to the closest outlet, so you can turn something off and on that is plugged in. Our switch doesn’t control the below outlet and we even had an electrician already look at it. He couldn’t figure it out either. So odd!

adding boho home decor touches in the form of DIY wooden light switch covers

It looks so much better than the ugly dirty old switch cover.

 

DIY boho wood burned light switch cover tutorial

While being stuck at home I went through some more things in my stash and decided to add all my shells from my seashell collection. Hey, the beach makes me happy! I have so many and it’s all free.

adding other free and cheap boho touches

The black New Jersey seashells are my favorites and I adore the snail shells too.

black seashell collection

I also had a very lucky day of finding a ton of sand dollars one day at the shore and I had them stashed in a closed container. They are so fragile and difficult to display so putting them in a glass lid covered box was a perfect solution.

starfish and sand dollar collection in rattan basket

You can find the box HERE and the starfish HERE. They are the ones I had on our real large live tabletop Christmas tree last Christmas.

conch shells, sand dollars and starfish collection in woven rattan basket

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How are you all doing? I hope hanging in there?!?! It just all appears so crazy and surreal, doesn’t it? I’d love to hear from you to see what has helped you stay sane or if you haven’t been able to stay sane.

Tschüß,

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  1. Tammara says

    March 31, 2020 at 10:21 am

    I love this idea! Looks fantastic!

    • Julia says

      March 31, 2020 at 10:42 am

      Thanks so much Tammara! Hope you are well

  2. Cassie Bustamante says

    March 31, 2020 at 11:56 am

    julia, this is such a cool and unique idea! i happen to have several light switch plates i need to change out… they’re hideous! love this idea!

    • Julia says

      March 31, 2020 at 12:59 pm

      Thank you Cassie. I don’t mind that I have the modern ones in other areas and these here in the living room. I think it’s nice to switch them up a little.

  3. Nikki Gwin says

    March 31, 2020 at 12:55 pm

    We have one of those odd light switches too. It’s in the hall and we’ve lived here 9 years and still don’t know what it does.

    • Julia says

      March 31, 2020 at 12:58 pm

      That is so odd. I thought for sure an electrician could figure it out but nope! And it kind of also scares me 😉

  4. Amanda Williams says

    March 31, 2020 at 2:15 pm

    I love it! So cool

    • Julia says

      April 4, 2020 at 6:47 am

      Thank you Amanda!

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