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Difficulty: Easy
Easy. The medallion installation is a breeze, and wiring the light fixture is fairly simple.
If you would like to add a touch of the baroque to your home without going all broke, consider putting up a ceiling medallion. A decorative disk centered overhead can turn a plain expanse of drywall into an architectural focal point. And luckily, what was once made from heavy, fragile plaster is now available in molded polyurethane—lightweight, more forgiving, and much easier on the wallet. As This Old House senior technical editor Mark Powers shows on the following pages, installing a medallion means little more than a morning on a ladder with a tube of construction adhesive. Add a nice chandelier to the equation and your abode will start to feel downright fancy. (Just resist the urge to start dancing a minuet.)
