I currently have a light fixture that is mounted on a wall that I turn on with a pull string. I am remodelling the room and am planning on putting in an overhead light. I would like to install a switch and remove the old drawstring light. This would prevent me from having to run additional wiring in order to get power to the room. I will need to run line from the new overhead light to the old light box, however if I can use the old light box that would be convenient. Question: Is it possible to remove the old light and utilize the incoming wires for the switch? I am assuming that I could run the old light wires to the switch, however before I start want to know of any potential difficulties that I may encounter, as well as if it is even possible. Please let me know if you have any thoughts. Thanks.

Thanks in advance for your replies. This is my first post as I have never been a real DIY'er. However, I was today and now have a really stupid question. [B]Can a light fixture work even if it is incorrectly wired? :confused: [/B] Here is the background to my question: My wife begged me to install a new lighting fixture in the kitchen. I figured "how hard could it be, "match the wires, mount the new fixture and voila. I removed the old fixture, and noted that the white wire was connected to white, black to black, and ground to ground. However, the new fixture had clear wires. :confused: Figuring I had a 50% chance of being right I arbitrarily connected the two clear wires to the black and white wires in the box, secured the fixture and had my wife reset the breaker. **fingers crossed** It turns out that the light works fine. So then I started wondering: Does this mean I guessed correctly, or could the light still work even if I wired it wrong? I figured that if wired incorrectly it would throw the breaker and then I would know to switch the two wires. Is this in fact the case, or could I still have a problem? Once again, thanks for your insight. I won't sleep good until I know there is nothing to worry about.