A wall sconce is installed like any other wall or ceiling light fixture, usually in place of an existing fixture on a wall (or ceiling) electrical box that's tied into the electrical circuits of your home. While only a trained electrician should install or upgrade those circuits, the average homeowner can easily install the wall sconce lighting itself. In most cases, you'll control the light from a wall switch, which doesn't have to be replaced when you add the new fixture.
Instructions
1. Cut power to the bathroom at the circuit box for the house.
2. Remove the existing light fixture from the wall electrical box, using your screwdriver to take out the screws at the base so you can access the electrical box and wires behind it. Disconnect the wires by twisting off the old wire nuts counter-clockwise. Pull the fixture free, letting the wires hang out of the box.
3. Find the mounting bracket that came with your wall sconce lighting fixture. It will be a flat metal disc or rectangular strip with screw holes in it that match the positions of the screw holes on the face of the wall electrical box. Affix the bracket to the box using the screws that came with it. The wire ends from the box should still be accessible through the bracket.
4. Locate the bare grounding wire from the electrical box and twist it around the green grounding screw on the bracket. Tighten it.
5. Position the wall sconce near the box. Connect like-color wires between the fixture and the box (white to white, black to black), twisting wire nuts over the ends of the wires clockwise to make the connections.
6. Tuck the wires into the box and hold the fixture to the mounting bracket. Affix it there with the screws included with the fixture. Insert a light bulb into the sconce and turn on the electricity.
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