Oh, sink light. I never did understand you. Who puts a light with an open outlet mere inches above a sink?
The light (or at least the wiring) seems to be original to the house. Was this a common feature in 1930? Sink light?
Anyway, my dad disconnected the wiring from the junction box in the basement, and then we removed as much of it as possible. There are still a few inches of wire embedded inside the wall that wouldn’t pull out, but it’s dead and doesn’t connect to anything on either end. The holes left were pretty minimal; I was expecting to have to cover up a giant junction box!
After removing the wire, I filled the holes in the window trim with a few rounds of wood filler and sanded like crazy to make it smoothish again. I haven’t repainted it yet because I’m probably going to be repainting a fair amount of the woodwork, and I’ll just do it all at once. But already it’s looking much cleaner back there. You know, if you can look past the crumbly plaster that was under the tile.
This was so not a big project. I wish we had tackled it sooner!
