Living room light

So it's been some time since my last post. Unfortunatly not too much more has been done but we do have some new lights up. We took the ceiling fan down in the living room and found the bracket for the fan was held up with 6 drywall screws into the ceiling, luckily they much have hit some of the wood lathe behind the old plaster ceiling otherwise it likely would have come down some time ago. You can see two sets of three screw holes spaced out, this was how all that was holding the fan up before.

 I had to make a bigger opening to mount a pancake box against the joist to hold the light fixture. This way it has better support and will make it much easier to change out the fixture in the future, I made sure it was rated for fans too! There were 4 lag bolts that hold teh box to the joist for support.

I found an old Moore Handley Homecenter ad from the 60s or 70s in the ceiling too and a pieice of screen.

 Bought a new ladder too, the one on the right was kind of scary to work on.

 Then we used a ceiling medallion to cover the big mess I made, you can see the box in the middle of the medallion.

Tada!