My basement is half finished and half not. The half that isn’t I am making an office in. This side has 2 lights switches that controls the 6 lights. My question now is, I want to use 2 of these lights for my office. How’s would i go about doing this. Should I just remove these 2 lights and create new lines from a receptical? Or can I make separate switches off of these light to control them individually? I don’t want to always have the other 4 lights on to control the office lights

 

A new switch wired to the 2 desired lights!

 

Or you can even switch every light. A bit of work, but what's it worth to you?

 

If I were to just run a switch from the 2 designated lights would I have to keep the main switch on that controls all the lights Originally?

 

Short answer, YES. If the power enters the switch then powers all the lights, you'll need to run a hot wire (black) from before the switch all the way to the new switch location.

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Ok that make sense. I’ll have to follow the wires and see where the power goes. I’m thinking that it might be easier to just eliminate those 2 lights all together and just run new wire from an outlet since there is no dry wall up yet and everything is open. Does this sound easier?

 

Without knowing exactly how the cables run it is hard to say what is easier.
If power comes into the current light switch then it is easy to make the box a double, add another switch to the box and run a cable to the lights.

Any existing cable you don't need, will need to be disconnected or terminated in accessible junction boxes.

 

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I just got to look and I found which light is the last. The flow is shown by the arrow. I want the labeled lights removed or at least on a separate switch.

 

So you want lights 1, 2, 3, and 6 to be lighted using a switch. So remove 4 and 5 and splice the wires together and you won't need to install any new switches.

 

Disconnect and remove the cable from the third light going to the labeled lights. Disconnect and remove the cable from the last light going back to the labeled lights. Connect a new cable from the third light to the last light.,

Run new cable from one of the labeled lights to the new switch,

Don't forget that all splices need to be made in accessible boxes. The existing lights may or may not have enough space within to hold splices of cables passing though and not serving the respective lights.

 

So I disconnected the wires leaving 3 and ran new all the way to number six. All good on that one now I need to connect these new lights to new switches. Question is. Should I run wire from the outlet or am I able to run some from the “running different light switch”? Which would only be 3 feet away from the closet switch and room switch that I will be adding. Vs the outlet is 15 ft away
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