Dining room lighting

One more lighting update, I replaced the dining room light fixture too, it was too modern for the style of the home.

Here's some more scary old home wiring... eek. The stuff is rather brittle. I thought this would be an easy one, just unscrew the old cross bar and put in the new one... too bad on of the holes was stripped.

It would be best to replace the box completely but I thought that if I did that I would have to run some new wiring as the insulation on the old probably wouldn't hold up. Instead I drilled out the hole then tack welded a nut onto the back so a screw will go in like it used to. I made sure I covered the ceiling and wires and we emptied the room of furniture before this part... I'm sure it's not a recommended technique.

 The results turned out great though. This is another of the lights that my wife found online that are about the same age as the home.