I live in an old property ..high ceilings and the like...so am not
familiar with new builds but anyway...
I have a modern brass light fitting which I acquired and it does not
suit my property and I was thinking of giving it to a friend for use
in her bedroom as she has brass bed,tables etc .
I have uploaded a picture here of the fitting .
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...g/IMG_8682.jpg

It has two screwholes which you can see in the pic and obviously are
used to fix it to the ceiling .My property has wooden blocks built in
to the ceiling and the rose/pendant lights are screwed on to them .

Even if I wanted to use this lamp fitting I would not be able to
screw it directly to the existing block of wood as the wood is too
large and the screwholes in the fitting are at the sides .I would need
to make a smaller wooden block to fit inside it .

Would I need to do this in a modern house . Presumably they are
built with wood in the ceiling to take ceiling roses but will I have
the same problem ,in that the screw holes are facing in the wrong
direction . I had thought that perhaps there was a part missing from
this lamp fitting but I am not sure
Stuart