[jyl]

EDIT: This thread is about my house.

I have mounted the pull down projector screen over the passage between living and dining room. It is a wide opening, that used to hold pocket doors, and the white screen housing blends in so well on the broad white trimwork, people don’t even see it. I’m pleased.

Now for the projector. It is a white cube, about 8” a side, and I want to mount it on the ceiling, just on the screen side of the ceiling light fixture. I can use a white mount and wirelessly connect to laptop and speakers. Should blend in well. I’m trying to make all this blend in.

But it needs a power cord. Ewww, an ugly power cord snaking along my ceiling and down the wall - nope.

I have two choices.

1. Do it “right”. Open the ceiling and wall, fish power to a ceiling receptacle. Sounds like work.

2. “Hack it”. Install a ceiling receptacle powered by the ceiling light circuit - or maybe even hardwire the projector, using a flat white power cable of course. Leave the wall switch “on” all the time. Replace the fixture’s five light bulbs with wireless LED bulbs controlled by a remote, which I’ll mount to the wall. Sounds easy, and reversible if that matters.

What would you do?