The Mystery Of Where To Find A Recessed Fixture Converter

Last year while shopping at Home Depot I asked a salesperson if there was an easy way to convert a recessed light to a junction box. I wanted to hang chandeliers where there were recessed lights in the Master Bath Redesign...without hiring an electrician. The answer was yes! He walked me over to the track lighting aisle and handed me the Recessed Fixture Converter kit, which cost just over ten dollars.

After Friday's post several people sent me emails asking where to find this kit. I had assumed it would be an easy item to find, so hadn't included a link in my post. But upon searching Home Depot's website, I couldn't locate the product. I thought that was odd. I then Googled and Froogled, but again came up empty. Determined to find a link, I decided to make a trip to Home Depot to solve the mystery. At the store I explained the situation to some helpful salespeople, who then proceeded to spent quite a bit of time searching their website for the product. Nothing!


So, if you want one of these kits it appears you'll have to go into the store, and know where to look. One reader emailed me that during her visit to Home Depot no one seemed to know anything about the product and she left the store without locating it.

To find the Recessed Fixture Converter you'll need to look in the track lighting section. Here it is tucked away with a lot of other similar looking boxes. The kit is made by Hampton Bay and Home Depot has the distribution rights, so apparently it won't be available in other stores.

If you can't get to a Home Depot store, I finally found this link for another brand's converter kit, though this one looks harder to install and costs nearly four times as much.

Are you wondering why I'd go to such lengths to find a simple $10.00 kit? Well, it is an amazing product (and no, I am not being paid to say so!) which easily and inexpensively allows beautiful lighting to be installed where a recessed light is located. I love adding wonderful light fixtures to a space, they are the jewelry of a room, adding that last special touch. In many newer homes it seems recessed lights have simply taken over, the ceilings look like Swiss cheese. It's divine when a simple solution to a design problem presents itself...and this is one of those great little solutions, in my opinion!

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And what is on the agenda for tomorrow? The chairs for the Big Boy's Bedroom are actually nearing completion and I'll show you the latest progress! I can't begin to tell you how happy I am to see the finish line in sight for this project...