Light Work – Remote Puck Light Sconces

One of the coolest things we added to our daughter’s room was sconces. Traditionally you have to hard wire sconces, but I found a DIY hack (thank you Tasha from Kaleidoscope Living) using remote-controlled puck lights.

The first thing I did was cut a foamboard circle that fit the circumference of the inside of the sconce. The foamboard piece will block the lightbulb screw. Some people take this part completely out, but I kept it in place in case I ever choose to hard-wire the sconces in the future. Then I added 3M sticky strips to the back of the foamboard, if you are removing the lightbulb screw you can opt to use velcro, and added the foamboard to the sconce holding it firmly into place for 1 minute, to guarantee the strips were in place.

Next, I added the 3M strips to the back of the puck lights, making sure the strips still allowed me access to the back of the lights to change the batteries when needed.

That was the easy part. Installing the lights was a bit more of a challenge. The sconces I ordered are meant to be installed in a hole cut into the wall. Something like the image below:

Because we weren’t making a hole in the wall we marked where we wanted the sconces, then flipped the brace in the opposite direction, so instead of them being indented into the wall, they bowed out from the wall. We screwed the first brace in at the top and bottom as the instructions said. But we got creative with the second brace. Instead of screwing the screws into the wall the intended way, we screwed/hammered them into the wall from the screw head side. This created a stable post-like structure for the brace to fit securely to the wall.

Once the braces were secured to the wall, we were able to cap the screws from the front which created an even more secure mount to the wall.

Overall, I’m so happy with adding the sconces to my daughter’s bedroom. She uses them to read at night, but also as timed night lights, and if we lose power they will serve as another light source beyond a flashlight.