If you drive around mid-Michigan where I live, you will see these metal boxes here and there along the road. I have always presumed they have something to do with the electric utility since they are often at country intersections that have street lights and/or stop lights. I've seen them near the street in people's yards too, though.
They come in various sizes, but most are about as wide as a washing machine, but not as deep. Those usually have one door. Wider ones often have two doors.
They will have some identifying numbers on them, usually those cheap gold-on-black 3-inch tall self-stick things you peel the backing off of and stick onto your house or mailbox.
Around here they are painted green. The elements transform it into a dull, pale color.
There is nothing about them that is aesthetically appealing.
So, that must be why somebody (the manufacturer, one presumes) has decided they would look better if their doors were covered with what looks like wood-grain contact paper. Not the whole box. Just the front panel.
Who are we kidding here?
Slapping some wood-grain contact paper on the front is not making those boxes any more attractive. Or maybe that's not the point. Maybe this disguise is supposed to fool us into thinking it's a tree stump.
Who comes up with this stuff?
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