Uplighting can look incredible if used well. But it’s not always obvious how best to incorporate it into your home. Do you need banks of uplighters, like you see in swish hotels? Or can you use them individually? And where should they be situated? Do they need to be inset at ground level, or can they be plugged in like lamps, or wall mounted? Here’s what you need to know about using uplighters in your home.
What Do You Need to Know About Using Uplighters in Your Home
Why would you use uplighters?
Uplighters have a range of uses. They can provide general ambient lighting, replacing overhead lights. You can use them to illuminate special features or brighten dark corners. Or you can create your very own statement lighting. And they are available in a range of formats, so you can incorporate them into your home in whichever way suits you best. Either plugged in, or fully wired.
Where can you use uplighters?
Well, ‘anywhere’, is the simple answer. Uplighters can make a lovely addition to almost any room.
- In the bedroom, a small floor stand uplighter, like the Astro Cut, can provide beautifully soft lighting, helping to aid relaxation and protect tired eyes. Some people use them instead of bedside lamps.
- In the dining room, wall-mounted uplighters, like the Saxby Mini-Crescent ceramic wall washer or the more decorative Elstead Quoizel Inglenook can be used to create ambience.
- Tall floor lamp uplighters, like the Dark Star by Interiors 1900, or mother and child lamps, like the sinuous Endon Monaco, work wonderfully well in sitting rooms, where you might need a little extra light to read by.
- In the bathroom, the Arezzo uplighter could provide the perfect wind-down lighting for a relaxing bath, or gentle wake-up lighting for morning eyes.
- While in the garden, uplights can be used for security, by the door to help you find your keys, as a gentle night light by outdoor seating, or simply to look nice.
How should you position uplighters?
To get the most benefit from uplighters, you need to place them as close to a wall as possible. That way, the light will be diffused across the space, rather than lost.
Wall uplighters
Of course, when you choose a wall-mounted uplighter, like the Welles, proximity to a wall is a given. But you still have to think about where on the wall you want them to be positioned. Now, this is a personal choice, and can vary depending on the height of the room. But in most cases, uplighters will look their best positioned at about 1.6 meters high.
Floor uplighters
When you choose a design like these gorgeous tubular floor uplighters, you have the flexibility to be able to move them to anywhere within reach of a plug socket. That means, you can create any effect that you wish. You can use multiple lights to highlight the different features of the room, or a single light for a moody ambience – great for film nights.
Uplighters waned in popularity for a while. People just didn’t know what to do with them. And the more traditional designs, embedded into the floor, required professional installation and had limited use. But with contemporary designs and a plug-and-play interface, uplighters are coming back into fashion. And we think that they look amazing.
View the full uplighter collection available from First Choice Lighting.
