Are there pendant lights that do not require electrical wiring?
I want to hang 2 pendant lights over my kitchen sink, but I don’t want to have to have an electrician come in. Wanting to do some minor, less expensive changes to my kitchen, and noticed more light is needed over the sink area. Any ideas or am I going to have to call an electrician in?
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You might consider changing the central light fitting to a multi or track fitting to give directional lighting over a wide area – easy enough job that wouldn’t need an electrician.
Or, either change existing light fitting to a transformer serving low voltage fittings which you can string around as you like – check out Argos for ideas – or run it from a wall socket, say strung across from two wall cupboard with the transformer concealed on top of the cupboards. I have run LED’s like this around tops of bookcases.
You could extend out from the existing light fitting with mini trunking to serve your pendants but that is getting a bit more ambitious.
Always, always, remember to turn off the electricty at the fuseboard, though.
Unless you can find battery powered lights, you need wiring run.
The only pendant fixtures I’ve seen are wired; I’ve not seen battery units. Pottery Barn carries a couple of hanging chandeliers that take candles, though. If you have a light above the sink now, wiring in a couple of pendants should be pretty easy.
a lite with no wires ? are you sure thats what you want.
it can be achieve in a couple ways solar panel facing window or batterypowered lites. to my knowledge other than that no way to lite a lite with out having wires going to it i may be wrong but i really doubt it
There are some other lights that do not need electricity to work. Hurricane lamps or camping lanterns might work, but they are a fire hazard and not too convenient. Other than calling in an electrician to do the work, how about putting some mirrored tiles over the sink to bring more light where you need it.
I don’t think so, but if you can find some nice hanging lamps in a style you would like, all you have to do is hang hooks on the ceiling to hold the cords.
You can wire almost any hanging light by adding an extension cord to the wiring,then just plug in.Of course you will have to cut off the end with the plug not the wall plug in part.You can always buy a florencent under cabiney light and they just plug in also.
You might try ’swag` pendants that plug into an electrical outlet.
If they’re over the sink, make darn sure that the outlet
is GFI protected though.
Get something with a pull-CORD. It’s a poor idea to handle
those in-line switches with wet hands, GFI or no.