Advice on outdoor porch lights please!

[charliedid]

Why not just hire an electrician or handy person to run a piece of conduit and hang 3 farm lights?

It's simple

[Peter P.]

Originally Posted by cmg

Just use a metal flush mounted conduit and put down lights where you need them. Paint the conduit the same color as the underside to try to minimize the look. ...

cmg is thinking what I'm thinking.

You're going to reuse the existing light box as your power source. Remove the fixture and use that as the center of a conduit run, both left and right. Evenly space out the junction boxes to hold the new fixtures. Maybe spray paint the conduit and junction boxes in advance, a contrasting color. They sell decorative escutcheons large enough to obscure the junction box that the fixture will attach to, giving an attractive finish.

I'd roughly assemble it on the ground to test it at night to see if the number of units you purchased provide sufficient light and to make sure you have all the correct parts for assembly. You can snap a chalk line across the porch rafters as a guide to ensure everything is straight.

Google "hanging lights" or "porch lights" to get some ideas what's available.

[rwsaunders]

Like others have said, run conduit with the porch roof framing to pendant mount boxes and fixtures and paint the conduit to blend it in. Keep the farmhouse look with appropriate light fixtures...be prepared for more bugs too.

[veggieburger]

Originally Posted by charliedid

Why not just hire an electrician or handy person to run a piece of conduit and hang 3 farm lights?

It's simple

Love the look of the hanging lights, but we are perched on a hill and it's windy as heck. Keeps the mosquitoes away, but want to avoid loose, swinging things.

Got some great advice so far, thanks all!