Hi all, I'm midway through updating the switches and sockets in my 1984 home - mostly going from the almond, toggle style to white, paddle style but also adding dimmers and a few sensor switches where it makes sense. I feel like each room I move to there's new evidence that the people who wired this place originally were crazy. Walking in to the house from the attached garage, you pass through a small laundry room into a sitting area off the kitchen. There, we have a fan/light combo. Right when you walk in from the garage, through the little laundry room, there is a switch immediately on the right. That SHOULD control the light that is in front of you, hmm? It doesn’t. It controls nothing in the room. The light in the sitting area is controlled by a switch next to the pantry. For the longest time I assumed (because these light switches had been replaced, they’re not almond toggle-style but white toggle-style) that someone had updated the switches but had been stupid about it, and put a single pole switch next to the pantry, and had abandoned the traveller wire, rendering the switch next to the laundry room useless. This morning I opened up the switch next to the pantry - single pole as I had thought. NO RED WIRE! What??? The wall box looks old so it doesn't seem possible that whoever replaced those switches pulled out the box, abandoned the traveller wire inside the wall, then replaced the box and re-threaded the wires in to put in a single pole switch. Then I opened up the switch next to the laundry room - red wire as expected! Hooray! But….it’s a single pole switch, they just used the red wire as the top wire. So, first thing I’m going to do today is go out and get an actual 3-way switch so it’s not wired incredibly stupidly. But this doesn't solve my dilemma of WHAT is on the other end of the 3-way? Where does that red wire go? Is it just abandoned, hot, somewhere in the wall? As far as I can tell, this breaker only powers the light/fan, the light/fan in the powder room a few feet away, and the three outlets in the sitting area (oh- and an overhead light and socket in the garage). I've replaced like 80% of the switches and outlets in the house thus far and I have a decent idea of how it’s wired. There are no other switches! :wall: Anyone have any ideas what could be going on here?? We've emailed the previous owner of the house, but she's an older, single woman, and I didn't get a big DIY vibe from her when we met, and I don't have much hope that she'll know anything more than I already do. We would LOVE to be able to use this light so we're not fumbling around towards the kitchen when we get home late at night.

Hello all, basically I need input on how to run the wiring for the installation of 6-7 can lights. There are outlets in the room, but no lights. The room is 18' x 14'