The ceiling lights in your bedroom are there for a specific purpose, obviously: to provide light. But they are also a decorative element, affecting the look of the whole room. If you're remodeling or redecorating your room, the new lighting you choose should be an important part of that project. Replacing old lights with new ones is surprisingly easy, as long as the new ones are at least as wide at the base as the old ones (so you don't have to touch up the ceiling paint around the perimeter of the new fixture).
Instructions
1. Shut off the electricity to the at the circuit box.
2. Take out the screws holding up the existing fixture. Pull it away and disconnect the wires behind it. There will be a white wire, a black wire and a bare copper grounding in the electrical box.
3. Install the mounting plate that came with the new light, using the provided screws to attach it to the electrical box.
4. Wrap the end of the ground wire around the green ground screw on the mounting plate. Tighten the screw.
5. Connect the black and white wires from the new fixture to the black and white wires on the the electrical box (black to black and white to white). Make the connection by setting the two exposed wire ends next to each other and twisting a wire cap over them.
6. Raise the fixture to the mounting plate, while tucking the wires up into the electrical box. Line up the screw holes between the light and the plate. Set the provided screws in place to secure the light.
7. Turn on the power.
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