Remove the fixture from the wall then spray paint it and the lamp shade cages black.
How to make a wall light safe.
Most likely your other vertical cut won t be right at the stud.
You can also cap the white and black wires and leave out the earth wire.
It is light enough to swing to the left or right on a pair of normal two inch hinges from a hardware store of course you can just hang the canvas on the wire and a hook but we prefer the convenience of hinges.
Once everything is dry reattach the fixture to the wall install the spray painted cage lamp shades and swap.
You can terminate single wires using wire nuts.
The caps must grip the wires firms so that it does not fall off after being screwed in place.
Most of these safes are slightly narrower than the full 14 normal space between studs to allow for slight variations in spacing.
Easy project takes less than one hour and cost approximately 5 00.
We found that a 24 x 36 canvas hung vertically and centered over the frame of the blumsafe perfectly covers our deep wall safe.
How to make an easy diy secret hidden electric outlet wall safe.
The plastic covers metal back boxes and electrical accessories are designed to be fire resistant to help stop electrical fires but try not to leave flaps of paper inside the box.
You can trim the paper right up to the edge of the internal box as the face plate of the switch or socket will overlap it by a few millimetres.
You may be familiar with the concept or not but just take a look at this cool instructable video below and you ll learn how to securely hide your cash other valuables almost in plain sight via an easy to make wall safe box which comes handy for.
Make one vertical line right at the edge of a stud and measure and mark your other three lines.
If the live wires do not fit in the caps you can bend them to make sure the cap does not slip.
Here are a number of different easy projects using standard outlets to secure your most.
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Easy wall outlet safe projects.