Instead of spending the nice weekend out and about, I decided we should hang up the beautiful chandelier I nabbed at the Antique Faire last week. After years of watching HGTV, I feel reasonably educated in electrical work (NOT). I armed myself with instruction printouts from thisoldhouse.com and various magazine cutouts and we are ready to install the chandelier.
Not so easy!!! FYI, hanging a heavy chandelier requires you to brace the junction box to a ceiling joist. Drilling a brace to a joist through a mere 4 inch wide hole further complicated the work. Two trips to The Home Depot, three trips to The Ace Hardware and $ 100 in various tools and supplies later, we finally got the brace installed. Just installing the brace took a day and a half. It's always fun when the instructions are mostly in Spanish with a few English words sprinkled here and there. The electrical connection was surprisingly easy. The hanging of the chandelier wasn't too bad; though I did get quite a bit of workout holding a 50 lb fixture over my head while my husband connected the wires. To make sure proper credit is given, when I say we, I mean my wonderful husband did all the hard work; I "supervised".
But all the hard work paid off. We now have a rudimentary understanding of the electrical system and we have a beautiful chandelier hanging the master bedroom.
All in a day's (weekend) work:
Looks SO good!!!
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