We're in the process of adding a floor to ceiling stud wall in our bedroom to section off new wardrobes and create a dressing space behind the wall (lighting here will be top mounted on wardrobes). Front-side we will wallpaper that wall and our bed will sit against it with wall-mounted bedside lights, bedside shelves and double sockets, all perfectly symmetrical.
The difficulty we're having is how to approach the ceiling lighting. We're in a 1900-1910 terraced house in North London - the big, South-facing room with bay and side windows has (no doubt old) patterned wallpaper across the ceiling bordered by cornice with a plaster rose and single pendant light in the dead centre. With the addition of the stud wall, the rose now sits near one end of it and likely needs relocating to be centred to the stud wall and moved forward to middle point between stud wall and bay window. Moving the rose will likely mean the wallpaper underneath (if there is any) will be damaged/destroyed. Ideally we don't want to have to go to the trouble of taking all of the wallpaper off the whole ceiling and perhaps revealing issues that may mean replastering the lot.
We're trying to think of what to do to avoid the potentially large job for a such a small thing! Any advice or thoughts? E.g. could we mask the rose in some way perhaps by way of a slightly lowered ceiling above all or part of the bed with down lighters. We do have access to the upstairs room if need be, albeit we'd have to lift carpet.
Thanks in advance for any input!
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