I have a ceiling box with a red, white, black and ground wires (four total). There was not an existing light to reference and I'm a little confused since the switch does not turn off the light. The wall switch has red and black wires connected to it with three white wires capped inside. I've attempted to install a chandelier by connecting the three wires to their counterparts in the ceiling box, but where does the red wire connect on the chandelier? Am I supposed to cap the red and the black and then connect them to my hot (black) wire on the chandelier? Thanx for your help.

David, Guess I wasn't clear on situation at hand. I have one light switch at top of stairs. Is now a single pole switch, but has three way wire going from it to fixture. White on each end of wire not presently being used. Think they just used three way wire for future planning. Would like to make it three way and add a switch at bottom of stairs. The power comes to the light fixture. The entire basement lighting consists of 8 lights on one circuit starting at pannel box with two wire feed plus ground. Then going to next light and so on and so forth joining all lights. All lights currently have pull chains on them except two. These two are operated by single pole switch at present. Thanks for the reply hope this gives you an idea of my situation. Steve