Renovation Tips - Part Two
Wire Management and Wardrobes
We wanted to get away from the normal white switches for Reiki Sanctuary. Legrand was our first choice. We just love the silvery plate. However, we had problem to match the silver face plate with its white base. All base came in white colour. Matching them together, silver and white, looked not right to us.
Though we managed to get the color code from Legrand for its silver colour and gotten the electrician to spray paint the base, we didn't want to employ too many of it in the house. With the base, the switches looked awkwardly bulky [just as picture below].
We had more than fifty switches and sockets, all around the house including for the down lights, and wanted a subtle presence of them [as in picture below] on the walls. At the same time, we didn't want to have too many wire trunks exposed all around the house.
With your floor plan, go through each room and locate the number of socket points/SCV/Telephone line. Advice the electrician about cornices and/or false ceilings, if you are intending to do them. Make sure the routing of wires/cables is done before the installation of cornice/false ceiling.
How we hide wires/cables for electrical sockets and rear speaker in living room
To minimise trunkings exposed in living room, the electrician fished the wires and cables from an accessible space through another wall, which in our case from the guest room.
The wires/cables were routed to far end [near window] pulled from electrical distribution box/amplifier from the living room inside and through wall.
How we hide wires/cables with wardrobes
You need to tell your carpenter that the sides of the wardrobes/cabinets are to act as a wall for switches/sockets. He will have to construct additional layer of wood to box-in the wires.
Our switches and sockets at different part of the house:
Dining Cabinet
Interior - Box for Wires
An additional wood panel was built to hide the wires
Shoe Cabinet
A boxed panel to act as wall and to hide the wires:
This ceiling fan is fixed directly to the ceiling. A hole had to be made at the false ceiling.
The Switch and Regulator:
