When we had the main electric panel redone, we decommissioned the monument outlets in the great room and outside areas. We knew there had been at least one fire in one of them, so we sealed up the ones in the sunken area, and after the floors were refinished, the ones upstairs and the furnace vent holes were filled in.
Those weren’t the only holes in the room we made and then filled. I also decided that the three sconce lights in the great room were dumb, as Agent Smith had come up with a better way to light the space. So before our painter got to work, Agent Smith pulled those sconces out, along with two in the foyer I wanted to replace. (Never fear, I re-homed them via Freecycle.org.)
While we completely deleted the three lights in the great room, I found some nice dimmable LED lights that can be mounted horizontally on the ceiling OR vertically on a wall. Best of all, they are simple circles.
Then it was time for some ambient lighting in the great room.