How to Install Wall Sconces Without Hard Wiring

Want to learn how to install wall sconces without the hard wiring or electrical work? Here is how to hang wall sconces to your home without hard wiring! We share our tips, tricks, and experience in a simple how to step by step guide.

This post is all about how to install wall sconces without wiring.

1. Plan where to install the wall sconces

First step, search for wall sconces that are PLUG IN only!

We wanted something that was gold, modern, and adjustable. A lot of websites claim the lights are plug in, but when reading the product description they were not, so just be careful of that. Once the lights arrived, it’s time to plan where to hang them.

The biggest issue you may run into with these plug in lights are that the cords on them are very short. Our original plan to have them on either side of the living room tv failed because the cords werent long enough.

We then decided to use them as lighting over our home office desk. This is a great option if you have a home with a light switch that operates an outlet instead of a ceiling light fixture.

Before hanging the bases of the sconces in place, make sure that each wire is long enough to reach the outlet below (both vertically and horizontally). Also make sure the lights were an equal distance apart and that they were centered to the object (in this case the desk).

Ok now for the hard part! The tricky part is making a hole on top that the wire and plug will fit through so that they can be hidden inside the wall.

2. Hiding the wire of the wall sconce

Remember, you do not want the hole to be bigger than the light fixtures plate on top.

Once the holes were done on the top of both sides, we made sure we could fish the wires through the wall. Now that you have the top holes are secured, you need to make a hole directly below the top one so that the wire can come out of the wall and be plugged in. This part is messy there was insulation in the walls so just be careful. It is important to measure here so that you are pretty much directly below where the wire will hang from the top. Because of the 2×4 under the sheetrock, you don’t really have room horizontally to run the wires underneath the wall.

3. Make the wall sconces look pretty

Now that the wires were through, you have to make the holes look pretty. You don’t want two holes just randomly in your wall with wires popping out. So we came up the idea to use cable access wall plates over the holes on the bottom. This allows the wire to be accessible in case there are any wiring issues. See the picture below

This gives you more of a visual on what we meant by the planning of the wires horizontally. You can add extension cords to the wire coming from the sconce, but in this case it worked out where they reached the outlet and we didn’t need the extension cords. We would’ve loved to have the wires hidden entirely, but because of the 2×4 under the sheetrock it really wasn’t possible.

These lights work best in places like a desk or above a bed or maybe a couch. It leaves you with a way to hide the bottom holes that the wires come out of. The arms are adjustable so you can make them as flush to the wall as you would like.

BEST PLUG IN WALL SCONCES:

MY WALL SCONCES

I love these wall sconces and would highly recommend them. They look so sleek and bring s much light over our office desk. Style these over a gallery wall or on either side of a living room tv. The possibilities are endless!

These plug in wall sconces from Overstock are a great deal and are different than a lot of the other wall sconces I saw online. The glass shade offers extra light into your room and is easy to clean. This is a perfect wall sconce for a bathroom.

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THIS POST WAS ALL ABOUT HOW TO INSTALL WALL SCONCES WITHOUT HARD WIRING.

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