Wall Mount Landline Phone Jack?

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Anyone else have a landline phone jack in the kitchen where a wall mounted phone previously hung? If so, what did you do with it? Obviously the "best" solution would be to remove the jack, patch the hole in the wall board, and paint over patch in a way that no one would ever notice what had been done. Obvious, if I could do all that competently, I wouldn't be asking this question. Any ideas? Remove the wall jack and replace it with a flat plate? Remove the wall jack and replace it with cubby hole to store a deck or two of playing cards. Install some sort of pull-out/tilt-out box for storing pieces of string or pencils too short to keep, but not short enough to throw away?
 
05C40 said:
Anyone else have a landline phone jack in the kitchen where a wall mounted phone previously hung? If so, what did you do with it? Obviously the "best" solution would be to remove the jack, patch the hole in the wall board, and paint over patch in a way that no one would ever notice what had been done. Obvious, if I could do all that competently, I wouldn't be asking this question. Any ideas? Remove the wall jack and replace it with a flat plate? Remove the wall jack and replace it with cubby hole to store a deck or two of playing cards. Install some sort of pull-out/tilt-out box for storing pieces of string or pencils too short to keep, but not short enough to throw away?
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I have multiple drawers all over the House for the latter...........
 
Curious, what is it near , cabinets, appliances, or a sink? Lots of a empty space or small area?
 
05C40 said:
Anyone else have a landline phone jack in the kitchen where a wall mounted phone previously hung? If so, what did you do with it? Obviously the "best" solution would be to remove the jack, patch the hole in the wall board, and paint over patch in a way that no one would ever notice what had been done. Obvious, if I could do all that competently, I wouldn't be asking this question. Any ideas? Remove the wall jack and replace it with a flat plate? Remove the wall jack and replace it with cubby hole to store a deck or two of playing cards. Install some sort of pull-out/tilt-out box for storing pieces of string or pencils too short to keep, but not short enough to throw away?
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Can you mud and finish drywall? If so ,go out and get a 4 inch drywall patch which is a self adhesive thin piece of metal covered in a fiberglass webbing . Stick that over the hole, use drywall compound of your choice to barely cover the webbing and feather into the wall. Usually best done in really thin layers ,three being typical, sand smooth and paint.

I'd put the blank cover on it. No one will think anything of it but you and you won't for long.
 
Ours is in a spot that we'd like to one day put some tile over. When that time comes we'll remove the plate and cover it up.

I do wonder though if landline phones might not come back around at some point. I mean, who thought kids would be buying records in the 2020's?
 
05C40 said:
Anyone else have a landline phone jack in the kitchen where a wall mounted phone previously hung? If so, what did you do with it? Obviously the "best" solution would be to remove the jack, patch the hole in the wall board, and paint over patch in a way that no one would ever notice what had been done. Obvious, if I could do all that competently, I wouldn't be asking this question. Any ideas? Remove the wall jack and replace it with a flat plate? Remove the wall jack and replace it with cubby hole to store a deck or two of playing cards. Install some sort of pull-out/tilt-out box for storing pieces of string or pencils too short to keep, but not short enough to throw away?
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I don’t understand. If you get rid of it, where will you plug in your phone?
 
Blank faceplate is the way to go. Doesn't completely remove the eyesore but is a significant improvement with minimal cost and effort.
 
05C40 said:
Anyone else have a landline phone jack in the kitchen where a wall mounted phone previously hung? If so, what did you do with it? Obviously the "best" solution would be to remove the jack, patch the hole in the wall board, and paint over patch in a way that no one would ever notice what had been done. Obvious, if I could do all that competently, I wouldn't be asking this question. Any ideas? Remove the wall jack and replace it with a flat plate? Remove the wall jack and replace it with cubby hole to store a deck or two of playing cards. Install some sort of pull-out/tilt-out box for storing pieces of string or pencils too short to keep, but not short enough to throw away?
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Put a solid plate and paint it the color of the wall. Or even put a canvas painting over it
 
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Why not just leave it alone?
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Because I figured that there were so many of these throughout America that someone, somewhere would have figured out an incredibly interesting and useful way to re-use/replace them. And I wanted to give all my friends on ZZP first shot at creating the next "Pet Rock" that would sweep America and make them a millionaire.
 
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05C40 said:
Anyone else have a landline phone jack in the kitchen where a wall mounted phone previously hung? If so, what did you do with it? Obviously the "best" solution would be to remove the jack, patch the hole in the wall board, and paint over patch in a way that no one would ever notice what had been done. Obvious, if I could do all that competently, I wouldn't be asking this question. Any ideas? Remove the wall jack and replace it with a flat plate? Remove the wall jack and replace it with cubby hole to store a deck or two of playing cards. Install some sort of pull-out/tilt-out box for storing pieces of string or pencils too short to keep, but not short enough to throw away?
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Cut the wire and use a sheetrock hole patching kit to cover the box.

You can do it.

Lightly sand and paint.

Or burn down the house and rebuild from scratch.
 
The obvious answer is to play into it and find the best condition old fashioned landline phone you can find (online or in a thriftshop) and mount it on the wall and enjoy it.
 
The funny thing is a decade ago when we built our home, we put a wall phone jack in the kitchen. The home devices that connected into cell phones were a thing, then, and we thought it could stick around and be handy (to not have our phones on us at all times). Oh well. Never used it and did the blank plate soon after it was finished. But didn't get rid of the box because you never know what future things could use those wiring channels
 
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