Sometimes simple design can still shock the senses better than something overly artsy. There are many highly-decorative switch plates and socket covers at every hardware store, but few of them fit squarely with more modest and linear modern homes or with sleek and style-savvy ultramodern residences.

A few embossed lines and a little extra surface area give these flat rectangles the appearance of being cubed.

While they are not going to turn your walls into artistic masterpieces, these clever little designs are certainly more interesting than the standard ways available to serve a function essential on virtually every typical interior drywall-and-paint surface.