Design journal

Guides for specifying beautiful electrical interiors.

Finish studies, socket planning, smart home wiring and installation detail — written by the designers and engineers behind Grazen.

Choosing Switch Plates for Warm, Material-Led Interiors

Oak, travertine and lime plaster ask for a different plate than concrete and smoked glass. A practical guide to matching metal to material.

Open plans remove the walls that power normally lives in. Here is how to plan floor boxes, islands and joinery so the architecture stays clean.

Why gallium nitride finally makes high-wattage USB-C practical inside a standard back box — and what to check before specifying it.

Frameless plates are unforgiving of an out-of-square back box. Six checks that keep the finish crisp.

Self-testing ground fault protection, the 5 mA threshold, and the rooms where it should never be optional.

Automation should reduce the number of things on a wall, not multiply them. A restrained approach to control layouts.

Two hundred identical guest rooms magnify every small decision. How to write a wiring device schedule that survives value engineering.