If we could build the perfect room from scratch, what would it look like? What features would it contain? Let’s have ourselves a little daydream…

We are very, very grateful for our electricity, aren’t we?

We certainly do not take it for granted that we can plug in a hot tool and–presto!–have curls, or that we can turn on our espresso machine with one magic button every morning.

What blessed lives we lead!

Only, you know…if you give a human electricity…we’ll tell you we hate the unsightly look of cords dangling every which way. We’ll complain about how unfortunate it is that we have to ogle our outlets, or that we have to stretch cords across great expanses of countertop in order to reach the power source.

If only there was a way to make this incredible privilege and its accoutrements more beautiful, more lovely, more like they, well, didn’t exist whatsoever! Yeah, we’re a strange old bunch, huh?

These are some first-rate first-world design solutions coming at you.

Heading off with: outlets that disappear into the surrounding material. Marble backsplash, meet marble outlets!

Image credit: Obumex

Material-matching or not, I have to say that the flat outlet is hugely more visually appealing than the normal centimeter-protruding ones.

Image credit: Trufig

But maybe the look of your outlets isn’t so much a concern as the strategic placement of power sources. Consider then, my friends, that an electrician can basically install these things anywhere besides inside your eyeballs. (?)

Image credit: ROM architecture studio

These charging holders combined with the under-cabinet outlets are semi-revolutionary, and I’m tending to think we should all get involved in this concept.

Image credit: Legrand

Prime outlet positioning in the bathroom might look like this:

Image credit: Bliss At Home

Okay, but wait, do you know about pop-out outlets or am I the last to find out?

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Image credit: D2 Interiors 

And if all else fails, make the outlet a purposeful spectacle, rather than a design feature we wish wasn’t there.

Image credit: Legrand

This post wasn’t the least bit helpful, but maybe one of you weirdos will appreciate my weird.

Weeee!