Accent Your Bathroom With A Stained Glass Light Fixture

A stained glass light fixture is a great addition to your bathroom. It illuminates in a way that adds a colorful, old style feel.

Tools and Materials Needed:

• Ceiling mounted stained glass light fixture
• Phillips and flathead screwdrivers
• Keyhole or drywall saw
• 12 x 2 electrical wiring
• Cut-in ceiling electrical box
• Cut-in wall electrical box
• Side cutting pliers
• Wire nuts
• Pencil
• Drill
• 1.5” Paddle Bit
• Stud finder
• Light switch

Step 1 – Turn of Power

Turn off power to the room you will be working in using the circuit breaker. If the receptacle you will be tying into is in a different room, then cut power to this room as well.

Step 2 – Select The Locations

Find a location in the ceiling and wall where you want your stained glass light fixture and light switch to be installed. If possible, try to place the light switch directly above a receptacle. This will reduce the work necessary to supply power. Use a stud finder to verify that the locations where you will be installing your light and switch does not contain a stud. If either location does contain a stud, then offset these locations accordingly.

Step 3- Make the Cuts

Place the cut-in boxes in the locations where you will be installing the light and the switch and use your pencil to trace around the boxes. Then use your drywall saw to cut out the drywall in both of these locations.

Step 4 – Drill the Hole

In the attic, use your drill and a paddle bit to drill a hole in the top stud of the wall within the same stud bay as you are installing the switch. If you do not have a receptacle in the same stud bay, as the switch then you will also need to drill a hole in the stud bay where the nearest receptacle is located.

Step 5 – Run the Wire

Run your 12 x 2 electrical wire from the location where the light will be installed to the hole cut out for the switch. Then run a wire from the hole for the switch to the nearest receptacle.

Step 6 – Install the Cut-in Boxes

Using a Phillips head screwdriver, tighten the screws on each of the two cut-in boxes until the flaps on either side swing out and tighten down to the drywall. When it is fully tightened the boxes should be securely mounted to the drywall.

Step 7 – Wire In the Switch

Remove the receptacle you are tying your switch into from the wall. Connect the hot or black wire to the copper screw, the white or neutral wire to the silver screw and the solid copper wire to the green ground screw. Connect this wire at the switch to the constant hot side of the switch using the black as hot, white as neutral and the copper as ground. Then, connect the wire going from the switch to the light fixture to the switched side of the switch.

Step 8 – Install the Bracket

Install the bracket supplied with the ceiling mounted stained glass light fixture to the electrical cut-in box. Use the screws which were supplied with the ceiling mount to secure it.

Step 9 – Wire the Stained Glass Light Fixture and Install the Light

Connect the wires supplied for the light by twisting the lights wires around the wires run to the light switch. Use your side cutting pliers to securely twist these wires together. Wire nut each of the wires together. Slide the light up through the ceiling mounting bracket, followed by the washer and finally the nut. Hand tighten the nut until it is fully secure.

Step 9 – Install the Stained Glass Cover

Slide the stained glass cover that was included with the stained glass light fixture over the light and screw the bottom nut on. Hand tighten it until the glass cover is fully secure.

Step 10 – Testing it Out

Turn power back on to any rooms which were turned off and test your new light using the new light switch.