How To Wash a Wall With Light

How To Wash a Wall With Light

For good reason, it is a mainstay in lighting designs for hotels, galleries, and museums. Recessed wall washing lighting makes a statement by highlighting various architectural features, artwork, fireplaces, wall hangings, and more. It's a simple method for producing a dramatic effect in almost any space.

Tip: Washing the walls can help a space appear bigger. Because you're highlighting the vertical surfaces, it tends to give the impression of expanding visually!

Here's how to use recessed lights to get the same effect:

1. Locate a trim for wall-washing recessed lighting.

To ensure that light is only released through the opening, it should have a partial opening. Have you got a slanted ceiling? Most people believe that a sloped ceiling makes it impossible to bathe a wall with light, especially when the angle is pointing away from the desired wall. It isn't! For sloped ceilings, all you need is a wall-washing recessed lighting trim.

2. Establish your mounting and spacing standards.

Your recessed light's "mounting distance" is the distance in feet from the wall to the fixture. The distance in feet between each recessed light is known as the "spacing distance". Here, the general guideline is that your mounting distance should be the same as your spacing distance. Take a third of your ceiling height to get that answer!

For ceilings up to nine feet high, the mounting and spacing distance should be two to three feet.

For ceilings between nine and eleven feet high, the mounting and spacing distance should be three to four feet.

3. Place the trim on the desired wall.

The wall you want to illuminate should be nearest to the aperture. Some wall washing trims include movable apertures so you can more precisely regulate the amount of light.

*Remember that wall washing differs from wall grazing, which intensifies shadows to highlight texture. Due to the even illumination, a wall wash tends to "smooth out" a wall's texture and diminish it, but a wall graze produces dramatic high and low levels of light on irregular surfaces (like brick or stucco). Place the light fixtures significantly closer to the wall if you want a wall-grazing effect; the standard distance is between six and twelve inches.

As always, if you have any questions, please contact us!
 

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