Ideal height for wall lights?

[RF Lighting]

We've told you time and again that it varies depending on ceiling height, fitting type and customers preference. There is no one size fits all answer to your question.

I could walk on to any job and mark the perfect place for wall lights on your wall. I can't tell you where that hypothetical place is via the internet.

 

[sparkwright]

I would say somewhere around 6 foot from the floor.

That's usually where I bring the cable out.

Not had any complaints as yet.

 

[Taylortwocities]

You would have complaints if the ceiling height was only 2.1metres.

 

[emilybronte]

You would have complaints if the ceiling height was only 2.1metres.

Precisely! Thank you.

Distinct sense of Groundhog Day coming on now.

 

[sparkwright]

True. I suppose it's a question of instinct.

Somehow you just 'know' where to position these things.

I suppose we could try to create a mathematical formula to say at which proportion of the wall between the floor and the ceiling the wall light should always go.

Then again we could not.

 

[emilybronte]

We've told you time and again that it varies depending on ceiling height, fitting type and customers preference. There is no one size fits all answer to your question.

I could walk on to any job and mark the perfect place for wall lights on your wall. I can't tell you where that hypothetical place is via the internet.

Right, O Oracle. These wall lights:

http://www.diy.com/departments/colo...-lamp-halogen-single-wall-light/589688_BQ.prd

on a bathroom wall 2.1 m high and 2.45 m wide. No coving, no picture rail.

Where would you put 'em?

 

[sparkwright]

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[RF Lighting]

I could walk on to any job and mark the perfect place for wall lights on your wall. I can't tell you where that hypothetical place is via the internet.

 

[emilybronte]

True. I suppose it's a question of instinct.

Somehow you just 'know' where to position these things.

I suppose we could try to create a mathematical formula to say at which proportion of the wall between the floor and the ceiling the wall light should always go.

Then again we could not.

Why couldn't you try? That's exactly what I was hoping someone would do.

I even suggested a formula of my own in the hope someone would agree or disagree with it, but nobody seems to have the confidence to venture an opinion, let alone a theory!

 

[EFLImpudence]

For goodness sake Emily, the point is it is your house and YOU who have to choose and live with it.
It is no good anyone here telling you what WE consider the perfect place because YOU may not like it.

What colour car should I buy?

 

[emilybronte]

@ RF lighting : I am interested to know how you 'know' what the ideal height' is.
(instinct? aesthetic theory?)and why, given all the relevant information, you are unable to venture an idea.

Fraud, or self-doubt?!

 

[sparkwright]

True. I suppose it's a question of instinct.

Somehow you just 'know' where to position these things.

I suppose we could try to create a mathematical formula to say at which proportion of the wall between the floor and the ceiling the wall light should always go.

Then again we could not.

Why couldn't you try? That's exactly what I was hoping someone would do.

I even suggested a formula of my own in the hope someone would agree or disagree with it, but nobody seems to have the confidence to venture an opinion, let alone a theory!

Too many factors.

You'd have to include some kind of 'correction factor' where coving is present and picture rails, which as you know being a decorator, can be level with the top of the door frame, or a good bit higher, or sometimes even a bit lower.

 

[emilybronte]

For goodness sake Emily, the point is it is your house and YOU who have to choose and live with it.
It is no good anyone here telling you what WE consider the perfect place because YOU may not like it.

What colour car should I buy?

No, if I knew the place had been fixed upon according to some objective principle (as opposed to mere whim), I would like it. Honest.

What colour car? Black, silver or red. Definitely not sludge-coloured or wishy washy pale turquoise (unless it is an invalid car).

What was difficult about that?

 

[RF Lighting]

@ RF lighting : I am interested to know how you 'know' what the ideal height' is.
(instinct? aesthetic theory?)and why, given all the relevant information, you are unable to venture an idea.

Fraud, or self-doubt?!

Experience.

Can you hold the light against the wall, and I'll tell you when it looks right. Then I'll do the same for you. If you're happy with the position, that's the perfect place.

 

[emilybronte]

Too many factors.

You'd have to include some kind of 'correction factor' where coving is present and picture rails, which as you know being a decorator, can be level with the top of the door frame, or a good bit higher, or sometimes even a bit lower.

So include a correction factor. What's the problem?

Actually, if the wall were elegant enough to have coving and picture rails, I probably wouldn't be inclined to add the visual distraction of wall lights in any case. I cannot imagine that they would look right anywhere on such a wall, unless the pic rails were at least 3.5 m from the floor. Would you?