Picture lights and ceiling track lights

[mikehammer69]

you could put a bunch of small spot lights around the ceiling in approximate positions, then direct them later. the type that you can spin and angle where you need them to be. they wouldn't need to be where the pictures are but could still illuminate them nicely from the side.
or just suck it up and decide now. indecisiveness is a terrible condition

Something like that

It wouldn’t be that difficult to approximate locations and wire accordingly

 

[SpiderTrev]

you can even get subtle GU10 type ones. i have used these at a cafe counter before to highlight menus etc. they are very subtle, though once you look at them they might look a bit "commercial" for a living room.
they are not as directional as spot light type fittings though, but they are more subtle.

 

[SUNRAY]

If you know which walls you want the pictures on and it is plasterboard on studwork, why not run a cable the whole length of the wall

and make the end of the cable safe in a suitable termination box

but leave slack between each vertical stud.

That way you should be able to make a hole where required and fish the wire out.

 

[endecotp]

That way you should be able to make a hole where required and fish the wire out.

With the wire behind the insulation, I’d need to make a hole in the plasterboard and the poke through the insulation and then start fishing. I fear it would not work well, and I’d end up making more and more holes that would need patching up.

 

[ericmark]

 

[mikehammer69]

This must be renovation of the louvre the amount of planning needed