Getting power for lights with least disruption

[Shell820810]

I would've liked some lighting on our stairs, either under the treads (open tread stairs) or under the handrails.  We forgot to leave the wires in! can you think of anyway to get power without tracking an obvious part of the wall (I assume a patch up plaster will be very obvious)

 

[Declan52]

Once dried and a few coats if paint it won't be seen at all. No sockets close to the stairs you could get power from? 

[Shell820810]

There is a socket directly under the top of the stairs, so could go straight across from that, but I really didn't want to cut into that much wall. Decisions decisions!

[Nickfromwales]

Gyproc easy fill is designed for seamless and invisible blending in of repairs to plasterwork. I use it when I do knock throughs etc and you can get it perfect if you make the right call and get a good decorator to apply it and layer it accordingly. Just prior to it being good enough, you coat it with a high opacity paint, and leave to dry. The paint acts as a super fine filler and allows you to sand back at 320 grit level to a perfect finish. 

Cut the plaster as sympathetically as you can, bite the bullet, and get your lights spot on   

[Shell820810]

23 hours ago, Nickfromwales said:

Gyproc easy fill is designed for seamless and invisible blending in of repairs to plasterwork. I use it when I do knock throughs etc and you can get it perfect if you make the right call and get a good decorator to apply it and layer it accordingly. Just prior to it being good enough, you coat it with a high opacity paint, and leave to dry. The paint acts as a super fine filler and allows you to sand back at 320 grit level to a perfect finish. 

Cut the plaster as sympathetically as you can, bite the bullet, and get your lights spot on   

Thanks Nick

Painters are in next week (spraying). Is this something we should ask them to do or is it better if someone has it patched up before they come? (Have a builder and dry liner/plasterer able to chip in). 

Have another socket to add in the kitchen too that was forgot about though we probably only have 4 inches of wall between socket and upstand so not so concerned about it.