Ed Clarke wrote in message ...
In article , Janis wrote:

I want to hang a group of 3 or 5 pendant lighting fixtures over a
dining room table. There is wiring in the center of the ceiling where
the current fixture is (this would be replaced by the pendants).

Is there an easy way to hang each of the pendants independently and
straight into the ceiling, instead of having a metal bar covering the
cords as they run along the ceiling into that center outlet?

BTW, it's an apartment-style condo with neighbors upstairs.

If this is a condo, it's probably new enough to have plasterboard ceilings.
It'd be a little work, but you could cut a foot wide by however many feet
long piece out of the ceiling, put up the electrical boxes for the hanging
lamps and replace the wallboard. Spackle, sand and repaint the ceiling.

It sounds difficult, but it's not really that bad. You could pay a handy-
man to do the electrical and wallboard work, and repaint the ceiling
yourself.

Ed,
Thanks for faith in my painting skills. It sounds like a good
solution. Just have to find the right handyman.
Janis