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How New Electrical Outlets Can Change Your Life

Published: Apr 21, 2017 · Modified: Jun 2, 2017 by Ashley Phipps · 849 words. · About 5 minutes to read this article. · 7 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links · This blog generates income via ads and sponsored posts · This blog uses cookies · See our privacy policy for more info Filed Under: Home Decor, Interior Design, Sponsored Post

How new electrical outlets can change your life.  It sounds a bit dramatic.  But if you are anything like me, you live life on the go.  Needing to charge your phone wherever you are in your home, whether you're in the kitchen or the family room, is super important.  Sometimes I go the whole day and don't notice my phone needs to be charged until the moment I need to make dinner from the recipe I have on my phone.  Oops.  Or maybe trying to turn off downstairs lights on your way to bed is a carefully planned strategy.  At least it is for me.  Well we recently installed new outlets and let me tell you, they have actually changed our lives.

How New Electrical Outlets Can Change Your Life and Upgrade Your Home in Just a Few Minutes of Work

A big huge thank you to Legrand for sponsoring this post today.  All opinions are 100% mine.  #radiantdesign

As I have mentioned before, we bought our home as a spec home.  So it was brand new but we didn't get to choose anything in it.  It came with some nice upgrades, and also a lot of standard things.  Our outlets are definitely standard.  Which I didn't think too much about for a long time.  And then I started using my iPad or iPhone more for recipes, I started to use my electronics more for work, which meant I needed to charge my electronics more often.  We also acquired more electronics and needed a spot to keep and charge them.  And outlets started to become scarce (and we actually have a LOT of outlets in our house)!  One of the problems was that the bulky plugs weren't really conducive to plugging in more than one item per duplex outlet.  Can I just ask why electronic plugs are so big!?  Please tell me I am not the only person with this problem.

How New Electrical Outlets Can Upgrade Your Home

Anyway...upgrading to new outlets with more options have been a game changer for us because we have been able to add duplex outlets with 2 USB charging spots!  This eliminates the need for that big bulky plug that takes up all the space!  Also, it means I can charge 2 USB items and 2 standard plug items At. The. Same. Time.  That's basically life changing in my book!

And the best part is that installing new outlets is not difficult!  And you don't need to hire anyone to do it.  It is a simple and easy home improvement project that you can do yourself.  Just remember, when installing new outlets it is important to always turn your breaker off so that you don't accidentally get shocked.

Here are a few pictures of our outlets before.  They were just standard outlets, nothing special.

Standard Electrical Outlets

Standard Electrical Outlets

Now all outlets are slightly different, but ours were very easy to unscrew and unattach from the current wiring.  All of our old outlets were exactly the same.  However, we opted for several different styles of outlets from Legrand.

All of the outlets are part of the radiant collection from Legrand and I just love them.  They are such a modern and streamline looking outlet.  It's amazing what a difference a beautiful outlet can make.  I also love that the faceplates are screwless.  This gives them a cleaner look which I really like.

How to Install new Electrical Outlets

We choose a few duplex outlets with UBS plugs, a few duplex outlets with nightlights and a few standard duplex outlets.  We chose the outlet style based on where they would go in our house and the needs for that space.  It was fun thinking through customizing our outlets to really fit our needs.

The outlets were all really easy to install.  We followed the instructions that came with the outlets and we were able to install them quickly.  We simply reconnected the electrical wires, screwed the outlet into the jbox, screwed in the small black plate and then the top wall plate just snapped right on.  It really only took a few minutes to install each outlet!

How to Install new Electrical Outlets

How to Install new Electrical Outlets

How to Install new Electrical Outlets

I really love the duplex outlets with the UBS plugs.  These are so incredibly useful and functional!  I love that I can have my slow cooker, my rice cooker and my phone plugged into the same spot!

Electrical Outlets with Nightlights

We also really love the duplex outlets with the nightlight.  We placed a couple of those in our front foyer hallway and in the kitchen to help when we are downstairs getting bottles in the middle of the night or when we are strategically trying to turn off all the lights to walk upstairs.  That added light is so helpful, they are just awesome.  I would love to be able to install a few more in my upstairs hallway one day.

I was really surprised how much of a difference in my daily life having upgraded outlets really can be!  I just love the look, style and functionality of them!

How New Electrical Outlets Can Change Your Life

So I am curious, how could your home benefit from a design and technology upgrade available when updating your outlets with something like the radiant collection from Legrand?

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  1. KC Coake

    April 24, 2017 at 3:44 pm

    I love it! Both the USB and the nightlight outlets would be so nice in our home as well.

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  2. sandra

    April 25, 2017 at 8:55 am

    HI11 you wrote an article on laminate flooring. it was a wonderful bit of info. There was only one problem...the picture at the very top had a floor I would die to get; it was unidentified. please tell me who makes that floor and the name of it. I have searched for 2 days and have seen nothing like it. PLEASE HELP me find it.

    Reply
  3. Carissa

    April 26, 2017 at 5:19 am

    Those nightlight outlets look amazing! I have a couple outlets in my house that I need to replace anyway but I think I will get one of those nightlight outlets instead or another plain one!

    Reply
  4. Jenna

    April 26, 2017 at 7:17 am

    We so need a few of these outlets in our lives!

    Reply
  5. Hea

    May 01, 2017 at 8:46 pm

    I need these outlets! I agree how new ones can really change your life!

    Reply
  6. Carrie

    May 01, 2017 at 9:46 pm

    These look great! I most definitely have that same phone charging issue and get so tired of having a million chargers laying around the house. I need to install a few of these myself.

    Reply
  7. Pamela

    June 06, 2017 at 10:06 am

    I've been seeing these advertised. Going to have to install a few of these.

    Reply

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