Wall Lights - How to Choose and Use Them in your Decoration

Wall fixtures are good options for indoor and outdoor environments that can provide a diffused and supportive light. Find out more.

20/08/2022

 

 

 

Ambient lighting is part of the decoration process but leaving it out as a final step is not the best choice. The lighting design needs to coordinate with the architecture and decoration of the space, ensuring functionality and beauty.

Do you want to invest in wall lights, but unsure how to choose them? Below, we present fundamental details that help select the best fixture.

 

 

What is the most common wall light designs?

Lighting the walls in your home can make a difference to the look and practicality of the space. The lights can be essential to fill your rooms, highlight certain textures, create designs, guide people's vision of a particular landscape, and define the walls, among other purposes.

Wall lights are fixed at a medium height to highlight or give a more interesting appearance to the room. This type of light is classified according to how it casts light into the room. The most common varieties of wall lights are:

 

• Swing Arm Wall Light

• Uplight design

• Downlight design

• With light at the top and bottom

• With a glass dome

• With a metal dome

• Spotlights

 

Sconces with transparent glass domes produce a hard, more direct light, often in outdoor areas. If you want a wall light that provides softness and comfort, choose an opaque, translucent fixture, making the light more diffused and without much intensity.

Depending on the style of the room, dome wall lights are excellent: similar to the light produced by a lampshade; they can give a charming ambience to retro spaces or even more formal ones, such as offices.

If you want to light exterior façades or create indirect lighting for interior spaces, uplight sconces are the right choice, as the light is reflected upwards (or onto the ceiling, if installed indoors). The opposite happens with wall downlight, a creative and decorative fixture, throwing the light downwards.

 

 

Fixture materials

Each environment and space has specific needs. For example, metal or glass light fixtures and chandeliers are easy to clean, so they are good options in kitchens and bathrooms.

The aluminium types are resistant and functional because of their lightness. They are versatile in decoration because they offer countless possibilities of coordinating with the surroundings and lighting effects due to their reflective material.

The iron models add sophistication and rusticity to the decoration of an interior or exterior space. It brings charm and a classic aspect, being well positioned at the entrance of the house or corridor. It also finds space in the balcony or garden, intertwining charm and modernity.

 

Use the right lamp

Choosing an ideal lamp for its function can make all the difference in ambient lighting. You must select the bulbs for your wall lights carefully. Opt for lights in the shape of a bulb or candle. For bathrooms and kitchens, go for white light bulbs. They make the environment brighter and give the feeling of cleanliness and hygiene.

 

 

 

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