Wall Lighting Ideas for your home!
Wall lighting provides a lovely soft ambience in a bedroom, living room or hallway (make sure to use a dimmer switch with them!) and above all gives a more subtle glow than an overhead ceiling light or pendant. I tend to turn off the main light and use wall lights as an extra layer of lighting alongside table lamps.
Wall lights work well as task lights next to a bed and are great in a smaller space where there’s no room for a table lamp on the bedside table. Look out for ones with articulated or flexible arms! I like the personality and drama that wall lighting can add to a hallway where there’s often there’s not much room for furniture. Wall lighting can be used to create lovely ‘moments’ in your home by highlighting a favourite feature or artwork.
See my other Lighting Blog Posts:
12 Brass Wall Light Ideas for a Cosy Coastal Home
12 of the Loveliest Rechargeable Table Lamps.
using wall lights
I love to layer wall lights into our lighting schemes. We have been under construction with our Airbnb project all year, consequently, we have been able to start from scratch with a lighting scheme for each room. Although It’s best to plan for wall lights at the beginning of a renovation to ensure the wiring is in the correct place, this is not always possible.
If you are not renovating, plug-in wall lights are a good solution if you don’t want to chase out your walls! We rounded up the best ones we could find here 13 Favourite Plug-in Wall Lighting Ideas if that is a better option for you!
Rattan is a great material for wall lights, adding texture, warmth and a coastal charm. Here are 14 of my favourite rattan wall lights from budget to luxe!
my fave rattan wall lights
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- We have these beautiful brass wall lights with rattan shades at The Georgian Flat, and they look fab! They are plug-in but I had to include them here.
- Wicker Scalloped Wall Light. A well-priced budget wall light.
- The flexible wall arm makes this a great option for next to a bed – we have these in our Attic bedroom. It’s the Phoebe Flexible Wall Arm in antique brass with an 18cm pendant shade in natural rattan.
- This coastal conch shape and darker rattan wall light is so good!
- I love the warmth of this more traditional coloured rattan wall light. This shape is great for narrow spaces like hallways.
- A fabulous budget option which is fully dimmable (essential!) Also available in brass. Black Wall Light with Rattan Shade.
- A great option for a hallway as it sits flush to the wall. The Athena Wall Light with its shell-inspired scalloped shade is a lovely whimsical nod to the coast, and it casts a softly diffused upward light.
- A wall light with a swing arm is such a good idea. These are a great budget option – I could see them being used in a kid’s or teen’s bedroom – super cool!
- A couple of rattan shade options (9 + 10) – I have used both! This one, in light rattan, comes in lots of different sizes for wall lighting, from 9cm to 20cm diameter.
- This darker rattan shade is great quality and an absolute bargain!
- A sister to (7), this Athena Wall Light with scalloped shade casts a diffused downward light and is on a lovely tall brass plate.
- This sconce has the rattan wound around the plate part of the wall light rather than the shade. It’s subtle and still feels coastal. Hector Wall Light
- I love the brass border detail on the rattan shade here, it looks super considered and belies its high street price! These would look fab next to a bed.
- This is a such a pretty raffia shaded wall light – gorgeous in a coastal cottage bedroom
Lastly, for options (9), (10) and (14), I love the comprehensive choice of light fixings that you can buy here without a shade.
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