15th Feb 2010
Kitchen Bar Wire Lighting System
So apparently my bar was really dark and it was begging for some sort of lighting system. Since I couldn’t really run wire through the ceiling without some massive destruction of the drywall, I went to Ikea and bought the Norrsken wire lighting system for about $80 plus two hanging lamps for $20 each. It was pricy but I thought it’s cool and fun to set up a cable system.
I knew it was going to be difficult but really it was worse than I thought. It took me 2 hours just to do the measurements (while watching Olympics on TV), and 6 hours to do the installation. At one point I sort of screwed up one of the wall anchors and was so freaked out, as you really only have one chance and if you fail to install it properly you’d be screwed forever. Somehow it turned out okay, I think it the anchor was 20% screwed but I was able to screw it in quite tightly. There were a total of I think 1 + 1 + 3 + 3 + 1 + 1 = 10 wall anchors that I had to install, and the measurements had to be 95-100% accurate otherwise it’d look like shit later. It was scary drilling the holes for that reason. After all the measuring and hole drilling, I got the wire system installed and the wires tightened up. It was a “wall to ceiling” set up which was not recommended by Ikea apparently as it was not noted in the manual - one end of the wire was set up on the wall, and the other end ends on the ceiling, in a 45 degree angle. I saw a picture online of the installation so I thought it may work with this Ikea one.
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