RenegadeJane
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Greetings all!
So we have a 30 year old timber frame home that has a number of lighting issues we'd like to address. For the typical reasons with these sorts of houses, we have vaulted ceilings with only a few recessed lights, which means certain rooms can be very dark. One of the first places we'd like to address this is in our first floor bedroom. In the attached picture those two side table lights are the only lighting for the room, leaving the other half of the room (where all our clothing storage is) nearly impossible to navigate in the evenings.
The problems I see with trying to add some sort of a ceiling light to the space is how to run the wiring, and how to attach (what we'd prefer to be) a ceiling fan to the center of the ceiling. The pine tongue and groove you see at the very top is the upstairs floor. It's the only layer between the two rooms. So I assume this will mean running some sort of raceway or conduit along the beams in order to get wiring out to the center of the room. The most logical place I can think to do this is from the basement up through the wall behind the bed, but it's an exterior wall so I'm unsure how to approach this considering the insulation.
Also since we'd want to attach the fan in the center of the room, this would mean attaching it to the tongue and groove which seems like a bad idea since it's not a proper rafter. We were considering running an extra piece of wood across between the two beams to add some extra thickness to that area, but unsure if that makes sense at all or will just cause more problems.
I guess I'm just looking for ideas on how best we should approach something like this, or if anyone has ideas that aren't apparent to us. I haven't been able to find much information in the form of running exposed conduit in a living space.
Thanks so much, let me know if there's any more information you might need or if I wasn't clear about something.
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