Including Recessed Lights To My Stroll-In Closet (Plus, My Workaround For My Phobia)

Right here’s the one single gentle on the ceiling fan that I’ve been working with till now…

Not solely is the lighting inadequate, however it’s additionally a yellow gentle, so it makes the cupboard a wallpaper colours look dingy. I can’t stand yellow lighting for that very cause. I like colour, and I don’t like my colours to look washed out, so I want white lighting.

My workday began off easily. I had all the holes reduce for the lights by lunchtime.

This was fairly simple to do with this Mikwaukee adjustable gap cutter (affiliate hyperlink). It adjusts to chop holes from 2″ to 7″, and it comes with this plastic protect that catches the mud as you chop.

It undoubtedly made the method quicker and simpler, but when I’m being trustworthy, I’d charge it 4 out of 5 stars. Whereas the plastic protect caught about 95% of the mud, it undoubtedly didn’t catch all of it.

Additionally, these blades appeared to boring pretty rapidly. I used to be capable of reduce all the holes I wanted, however after about 4 holes, the cuts appeared to begin getting rougher and rougher with every extra gap. And the blades saved coming free, so I’d have to make use of an Allen wrench to tighten the blades after I reduce every gap.

I feel the software might use some enchancment, however it did the job. And it did it a lot quicker and simpler than another software or course of I’ve used up to now to chop holes for lights.

I ended up reducing holes for 2 lights on all sides by the cupboards, and one gap over every equipment.

I had somebody ask me why I didn’t plan on including three lights to every facet within the cupboard space. The reason being due to this air conditioner vent on the left facet which is correct the place I would wish to place a light-weight if I had added three to every facet. And I didn’t wish to transfer a vent.

However I did add one extra gentle centered on the doorway. So the closet cupboard space could have 5 extra lights plus the middle chandelier when all is alleged and finished. That will probably be loads of gentle.

Issues have been going so easily at this level that I anticipated to interrupt for lunch, after which come again and take about quarter-hour to climb up into the attic and run the wiring from every gap to the following. In principle, this step ought to have been extremely easy. What I hadn’t realized is that all the space from the pink line to the window wall was in that space that juts out from the entrance of the home, and the roof over that space is extremely low.

I had three wires that I wanted so as to add in that part, however as soon as I obtained up into the attic, I noticed that it wasn’t going to be as simple as I assumed. In actual fact, it took me some time to even discover these two holes over the washer and dryer. I couldn’t even see them till I used to be taking a look at that space head on. After which I noticed that with a view to get to them, I’d should lie on my abdomen, shimmy into that space beneath the tremendous low roof about 10 toes, hoping that I might get all the way in which to the top whereas dragging three wires in my hand, after which shimmying again with out having the ability to flip round. And, after all, I’d should do all of that with out placing a foot or knee via the drywall.

So I ended up reassessing the scenario to determine methods to get the wires from gap to gap, round and above all the ceiling joists and different framing. I lastly ended up having to chop three extra holes that must be patched.

The excellent news is that patching these holes will probably be fairly easy as a result of I’ve all of those good little circles of drywall that I can use to fill them.

Anyway, these are the lights that I’m going to make use of. They’re not technically recessed lights. They sit flush to the ceiling.

And since they’re only one/2-inch thick, and so they’re LED in order that they don’t get sizzling, you’ll be able to put them nearly anyplace, even immediately beneath a ceiling joist.

That is the model I exploit. They’ve 5 completely different temperature settings, and I all the time set mine to the 5000K (daylight) setting.

So by the point I obtained all of that finished, I used to be just about worn out each bodily and mentally. You’ll be able to see the holes that must be patched right here.

Additionally, by the point I obtained all of that finished, I virtually talked myself into leaving the middle gentle proper the place it’s. The problem right here is that the wire that comes from the swap is just too brief to maneuver that junction field again six inches.

I attempted to make myself be okay with it, however about an hour later, after my nerves had calmed a bit, I made a decision that I’m simply not okay with it. You’ll be able to see how off-center it’s with the middle sections on the facet partitions.

So I went forward and eliminated the junction field. I assumed that may be fairly easy, however it was a little bit of a problem getting it off because it had these facet areas that jut out with the nails.

I mangled the drywall a bit getting these out of there.

Luckily, I’ll be capable to reduce a six-inch gap after which use one of many circles of drywall that I’ve to patch that space.

So in the long run, I’ll have 4 holes that I have to patched.

However patching 4 holes in drywall is a small worth to pay for avoiding getting caught on my stomach in my attic in a full-blown panic because the low roof closes in on me and having to name 911 to rescue me. 😀

It’s not how I had hoped this mission would go, however no less than the wires are in place. And I ought to have all the lighting put in by the top of the day. It’ll be good to see what this room seems to be like with correct lighting.