Grocery Store Decor

Here's my solution to boring switchplates...I call this "legume art". I've used dried beans on switchplates, mirror frames and even dressers. They're very cool, super cheap and always a conversation piece.

In my house in Rhode Island, one of the few things I was lucky enough to inherit with the vanilla box of a house we bought was a roomy bathroom (it's all relative --- this is the northeast and it's not new construction) with the original black and white tile.

Black and white beans from the supermarket, a glue gun, some polyurethane to finish and my black and white bathroom has a black and white lightswitch unlike any other. This template was an unfinished wooden switchplate that can be found in any craft store. An even easier solution is to glue over the existing switchplate. Just remember to leave enough space for easy mounting with the screws.