Day Nine-fifty-one: climbing out of the darkness

This weekend we made a detour into Electricity Town. It's a nice place. Bright. Full of energy. But danger lurks seemingly behind every wall. Or in our case, ceiling. In the room affectionately known as "studio two" (or "studio deux" in Canada) there is one ceiling light far back along one wall. We're not sure why anyone decided on that placement, but there you have it. This left about 75% of the room darker than it needed to be. We got by with floor lamps but finally bit the bullet on a more permanent solution.

Here is the forlorn half of the room crying out for some wattage.

So what's missing here is a lot of quality time spent in a warm (not blistering, but still uncomfortable) attic crawling along and digging through insulation to find the box attached to the existing light. The simplest way to create a second light that would come on with the same switch is to start from the existing fixture and run a wire to the new one. Once we found the existing one it wasn't too hard to thread some wire through it. Then we needed to install a ceiling box for the new light and run the other end of the wire through it.

Here's how everything turned out. Two light boxes and a wire between them.

Here's a close-up of the new box.

With that all done, next we had to attach the new wire to the supply wires for the existing light so that the electricity could start the trek to the new light. Then we re-installed the first fixture and installed the second one and presto! Here they are with juice.

Here they are at rest.

And here's a solo shot of our newest addition.