Can you give me ideas for replacing this front hall light fixture?
We want to replace this front hall a light fixture. Problem is that the electrical outlet is on a wall, and not on the ceiling, as shown. Any suggestions or recommendations on how to make this clean, modern, and impressive, without breaking the bank and re-wiring in the ceiling? Rewiring the ceiling would be difficult, as there is no attic space above the beams. Thanks!!! 😊
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Maybe a branched Chandelier, something larger and more impressive would suit your decor.
My preference-I would have the wiring moved to the ceiling beam, that what we did many times are we are in a log cabin situation with ceiling beams. The wiring would most likely go in the wall out nearest the beam edge and hidden under molding adjacent to the beam.
Any lighting placed there at depicted location may offer ineffective light with height placement and ceiling vault -imho.
You can use Wiremold raceway to cover the wires.
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My answer is similar Williams, only where I live it is called a conduit.
Using a conduit hides the electrical wiring, and enables installation of new electrical fixtures in a location other than where the original fixture was. It is much less work than crawling up into the attic, or onto a roof, fishing wires, and cutting new holes in the ceiling. Paint out the conduit to match the ceiling or wall color and it will be almost invisible.
If you are wanting a clean, updated look to the foyer, I would suggest installing an integrated LED flush mount fixture. As these are very lightweight, one could easily be attached to the slanted ceiling.
The wiremold will certainly work and I just wrote an article about new electrical outlet choices, including wiremold. You could easily run the wiremold along the ceiling beam, where it would be masked sitting in the shadow of the exposed beam.
However that won't solve the challenge of hiding the wiring from the outlet to the ceiling beam ... so here's an idea I used successfully in my handyman business. After making repairs that caused ceiling stains the challenge was how much of the ceiling we would paint because today's open floor plans mean ceilings go on and on.
That means it's time for you to think outside the box, look at your light fixture and come up with several designs for simple wood trim on your ceiling to frame the light and provide a way to hide wiring (or wiremold) from the outlet to the ceiling beam.
You'll find ideas on my pinterest board on walls and ceilings.
What I have done to hide wiremold in walls is cut a groove in the drywall from ceiling to wall outlet and bury the wiremold in the groove. Then just patch over the groove with fiberglass drywall mesh tape and no shrink drywall patching compound. Got this tip from an electrician to hide Romex or wiremold.
Your very welcome. Good luck.