Whether you dine in style under the light of a modern wooden hanging light or in the comfort of a more rustic style, here are some tips for the new wooden hanging light in your dining room: Take one of the screws and push it through each of the pre-drilled holes. Make sure you apply pressure so that it indents into the drywall.

Once suspended from the ceiling, wooden pendant lights often sit just above eye level, so they’re sure to attract attention. This makes them a perfect fit for the dining room – more precisely, for over the dining table. Place the wood ceiling support onto the ceiling and align the sides of the board on the marked lines. Also have the pre-drilled holes aligned for the center of the truss. Hand tighten the bolt and then use some sort of lever to tighten it further, I used a large screwdriver. TIP: It would have been easier to use an Oscillating Dremel but we could not find my dad’s tool anywhere, so we improvised. Drill a hole with the correct diameter, 10mm in this case. Be sure to use a hammer-drill to drill into concrete.Now, mark the middle of the trusses for where the end of the wood ceiling support will sit. This will be the distance from one wall to your first marked beam center plus 3″ (half of the size of the wood support). Once one side was cut to the 6″, the other side could be cut on the table saw. This second cut is the 2″x6″ board for the ceiling support. We cut this board to 27″. Now you need to determine where the trusses (studs) are in the ceiling and which way they are running. You have to attach the ceiling support to at least two trusses in four places to hold the weight of the beam.

Hopefully, these trusses are centered to your beam center. If not, you can make your wood ceiling support longer to adjust to this or move your center spot. Ours was centered so our wood ceiling support board was cut to 27″.Make sure to pay attention to the colour rendering. This is another feature of the light source which can found alongside the luminous colour in the product details section. If the colour rendering is below Ra 80, it won’t be ideal for dining. Please copy the voucher code, go to the basket and paste it into the voucher code box. To the Cyber Monday Sale

Remove the metal from the beam, then measure the distance from the marked line to the shorter end of the metal. This mark should be right around 1″. SIDE NOTE: There is electrical work involved in this project, so please make sure you turn OFF the power to the lightbox . I am not an electrician and you should be aware that there are dangers in doing this project yourself, so please be careful. STEP 1: MARKING YOUR CEILING FOR PLACEMENT

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On the front of the wood ceiling support, mark each corner of the board 1-1/2″ from each side; there will be four marks. These four marks will be where the wood is attached to the ceiling. We decided to cut down two sides of the beam to make it 6″x6”. But this was a little more difficult because the table saw we were using can only cut 3“deep (total of 6″). We were off by 2″ on one side.