Methods to Change a Recessed Can Gentle to a Chandelier | Thrifty Decor Chick

Methods to substitute a recessed can mild with a chandelier or ceiling fan! 

Do you know you possibly can grasp any mild fixture from a recessed mild fixture, so long as it is 35 kilos or underneath? 

Each of these choices are SUPER easy and take no electrical data in any respect!

I do have some electrical expertise, so I believed this subsequent one could be particularly straightforward. Though it seems you need not know a lot aside from how one can wire a lightweight fixture to do that one. 

So I believed…straightforward! 😣

You know the way typically what you suppose might be tremendous tough grow to be a breeze, and tasks you suppose might be straightforward grow to be a lot tougher than you thought? 

This was a type of tougher than I believed ones.

It is a small house, however as you possibly can see above, I like treating spots like that as tiny rooms I can beautify. 🙂 

We have now a recessed mild on this space that I knew would look nice with a dangling mild: 

They simply need to be 35 kilos or underneath for this explicit equipment. I received mine at Lowe’s, however grasp in there until the top of the put up for a significantly better possibility and hyperlinks to how-to movies. 

Do you sense the foreboding? 🙂

I like the brass and white combo and it is a first rate sized mild. I prefer to go larger than you’d suppose in small areas like this. 

This smaller one was on sale and I received a further low cost, so it was $60 off the common worth. I used to be so excited to get it up — I knew it was going to look so good in our little hallway! 

That is the place the challenge, that ought to take an hour, become 4. FOUR. HOURS. 

The can converter is not that tough to put in actually…it is principally only a bracket that you just set up contained in the can so a heavier mild will be hung. 

However the instructions within the equipment I used have been abysmal. So dangerous that I ultimately stopped attempting to make use of them and determined to determine the set up by myself. 

It simply wasn’t working for me…the bracket wouldn’t keep safe. Additionally, the converter equipment has a metallic medallion that you must use to cowl the big recessed gap. However I couldn’t work out how one can set up the sunshine I used to be utilizing with that medallion. 

Then…this beautiful mild gave me some suits as properly. The wire is roofed with material, which seems nice. But when you must shorten your chain, you will want to chop this as properly. 

Usually this would not be an enormous deal, however the material across the wire immediately began unraveling. I attempted leaving it alone however each time I moved the wire the material would fray much more: 

It was a HUGE mess, so I needed to fastidiously reduce all of that off of the wire, which took ceaselessly as a result of I used to be attempting to not nip the precise wire. 

Between the sunshine fixture giving me suits and the equipment not working, this challenge took method longer than I deliberate. 

However I do not surrender! Or I am simply ridiculously cussed. Both method, I lastly discovered an answer. 

It was so simple as working again to the ironmongery store for a flat medallion for the ceiling as a substitute of the dome formed possibility they supplied within the converter equipment. 

As soon as I figured that out, the sunshine went up in about quarter-hour…because it ought to. 

Fortunately, I adore it as a lot as I believed I might! It is a actually beautiful mild: 

I plan to go fairly dramatic on this house and this beautiful mild is my inspiration. 

NOW I feel it was price all of the work. Throughout the cussing, not a lot. 

Simply including a fairly mild fixture provides a lot to this small house!:

So this is the factor — this challenge does not should be as laborious because it was for me. It actually ought to solely be an hour from begin to end, tops. 

I plan to vary out mine with that mounting bracket/converter equipment as a substitute. Mine sucked. 🙂

That is my story of the lighting challenge I believed was going to be straightforward…however wasn’t. Have you ever tried changing your recessed can lights with one in all this kits? How did it be just right for you? 

Keep tuned for extra updates on this little hallway!