Mfan wrote:
Get a taller wife?
Perfect! :W
When I moved the furnace thermostat in our trailer laterally so I could see / reach it with the slide in the travel position I too had the choice of opening the wall or simply running the wires along the outside surface and masking them with some sort of dressing. I chose the latter when I discovered that inside the wall there was also a metal stud I'd have to drill through in order to run the wires where they needed to go. I chose to channel out a piece of hardwood for the purpose ...

... mostly because I only needed a few inches, otherwise I'd have instead used a piece of plastic wiremold. The OP could do the same, running the wires from the light fixture across the ceiling and down the wall to a switch located in a surface mount box, thereby completely avoiding having to open the wall or ceiling at all, not unlike how I ran a cable for the A/C I installed in our popup.
