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Traditional and Modern Wall Lights

Ideas on the type of wall lights to use in the traditional, contemporary or modern home. Select any image for further details.

Whether you live in a large modern house or a small traditional cottage, wall lights will probably play a large part in your overall lighting scheme. Perhaps out of necessity because your home has low ceilings or because that you already know that the ideal way of creating different moods with lighting in your home is to have lights on different levels.

If you are considering wall lights in a new build you should generally try to plan your room layout as early in the construction process as possible. Even possibly to the point of where to hang any pictures.

Try also to think of the height of furniture or mirrors or paintings as it’s difficult to alter the wiring for wall lights once it is in place. Of course this isn’t easy; always there will be an item of furniture that you wish you could put in another part of the room but cant because of the position of the wall lights. With picture lights it is even more important to have the wiring set at the correct height.

Therefore, if wall lights are part your lighting scheme, try as much as possible to plan the final room layout as early as you can. This may even mean purchasing the wall lights before the wiring is even started. Do you need to consider whether or not you need to buy single or twin wall lights. If its a new house, energy saving wall lights are readily available. Building regulations requires the use of some energy saving lights to be installed in all new houses.

Which type of wall lights could you use?

Wall washers, wall uplighters or traditional wall lights or contemporary wall lights that stand off the wall, or even spotlights which could be used to illuminate a painting or picture.

Glass wall washers generally give light generally in all directions but mostly light the wall rather than throwing light out into the room itself. This type of mood or ambient lighting can help in creating a restful or romantic ambience.

Ceramic wall uplighters which can be painted can blend the wall light fittings in to the background so that the lights themselves are not the feature.

Bathroom wall lights if within zone 2 of a bathroom need to be IP44 rated. We have a good selection of traditional bathroom wall lights which compliment or are from the same ranges of other wall lights on this website. As well as the more contemporary or modern chrome wall lights. Illuminated bathroom mirrors are in our bathroom mirrors sectiont.

Tiffany wall lights, because of the coloured decorative glass may not give out as much general light as other kinds of wall lighting. Therefore be aware that if Tiffany lighting is your lighting style of preferance, be sure to include enough fittings to light the room adequately.

Using a dimmer switch can increase the flexibility of the general lighting scheme. Dim the wall lights in the evenings when watching television or eating a meal in the dining room or not dimmed at all if task lighting is required.

We have an extensive range of traditional, contemporary or modern wall lights in our online shop.

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