“I’d like to hide a valve.”

Did I ever tell you the sad story about my water valve? That’s not a very exciting intro, sorry. Let me spice it up a bit with a click-bait worthy headline.

“When I heard her sad water valve story, I was shocked, but what she showed me next BLEW MY MIND.” Better?

Ok, so for some dumb reason our builder put our water valves right in front of our house. That means any random person walking down the street can saunter right up to the house and flip all the water to the house off or on. And one night someone did exactly that. Only it wasn’t our main water valve, it was the one that goes to the sprinkler system. So we had no idea. Not until a few weeks later, when all of our plants and trees and lawn started dying. We consulted our landscaping timers, and everything seemed to be operating just fine. (Never considering that even though the sprinklers were set correctly, they had no water with which to sprinkle.)

We finally figured it out, but by then we had lost a lot of plants and all our grass. I was super peeved. Apparently a flippant pack of valve-flipping teens had been striking homes all across the neighborhood.

I vowed to build some kind of ‘safe box’ around the valves. Not only to protect myself from this ruthless band of sprinkler-squelchers, but because it just looks so much more attractive than a bunch of pipes and boxes and valves protruding forth from the wall.

Tasha knows what I’m talking about. She disguised this mess of electrical panels and wires just outside her door, and it looks phenomenal!

No one will be tripping her switches now! They’ll just be straight trippin’ at how cool it looks.  (I am way too old and unhip to be saying that, don’t worry, I know).

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