When might choosing an uplighter seem like a good option?
We’re so often used to having light flood down upon us, from ceiling pendants and spotlights, to task lamps and striplights, that it’s easy to miss the point of uplighting.
They do look pretty, but what really is the benefit?
There’s a few actually…
Use Uplights to Create Space
By illuminating and bouncing light around white or light-coloured ceilings, uplighters can instantly open up a space — making dark rooms seem brighter and small rooms seem larger.
And by using the white space on your ceiling in this way, there’s no need to whitewash every wall in the house. Keep that bright, statement feature wall. Break free from the chains of magnolia. Get that on-trend, lush, botanical-print wallpaper.
This simple, but classy, white crescent wall uplight is sheer elegance, and creates space and ambient light without drawing attention to itself, or away from other décor. Made from white plaster, it can even be painted to blend in with, or complement your colour scheme.
Uplighting wall-washers use wall space as a wonderful, open canvas on which to ‘paint’ their light, reflecting this light back out, and pushing the walls back aesthetically to create the illusion of more room.
Use a stylish fixture such as this satin-chrome wall-washer, with a sleek art deco feel and a contemporary edge, to create a bold effect.
Use Uplights To Make Features Out of Quirky or Interesting Room Shapes
Uplighting can accent interesting architectural features, like interior brickwork, alcoves and recesses, or throw light on specific components within your room, such as paintings, or beautiful ceiling and wall masonry.
Using modern, recessed floor uplights for instance, can really emphasise the texture of stone or brickwork walls.
Or choose an uplighting floor lamp, like this ultra-streamlined, brushed-steel halogen light to highlight quirky, angular or curving ceilings.
These contemporary, brushed-alloy up-and-down lights come as a set of two, four, or singly — and are perfect for under staircases and within darker areas to add brightness and create a stylish feature out of an overlooked space.
Use Uplights to Create Mood
The ability of uplights to create mood is the main reason they’re so often used in wedding and event function spaces.
Particularly when coupled with coloured filter screens or bulbs, they create walls awash with stunning hues and dramatic, sculptured shadows.
And whilst you may not have a notion for lilac-tinged filters in your lounge, the ambient, non-glaring illumination afforded by uplights can still add personality, depth and atmosphere to an otherwise lacklustre space.
Try placing a floor-based uplight behind a sculpture or piece of furniture for example, or within the base of a large, floor-sitting plant to create texture and chiaroscuro light-play.
Use Uplights to Make a Statement
Many uplights are designed to let the light itself do the talking, with the fixture kept minimalistic and adaptable for any design scheme.
These Tiffany-style uplighter shades however, are designed to make an impact. Choose from our own traditional-style Lily ceiling pendant, or cream and jewelled uplighter shade for a taste of art nouveau.
If art deco is more your flavour, this Quoizel wall uplighter combining bold-coloured tiffany glass with stepped, geometric shaping, is an exquisite statement piece of retro design.
For more tips and ideas for using uplighters in your home, feel free to contact the team at First Choice Lighting at any time, or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
