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Black Wall Light

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I don’t know how many of you caught up with my series on How to Get the Lighting Right but for those of you who are new to the blog, I wrote a series of posts in collaboration with John Cullen going round my house room by room to see what I had got right (not so much) and where things could be improved (more).

One of the key suggestions that their creative director Sally Storey made was to try and move away from simply having downlights or spotlights in the kitchen. Now we already had one table lamp in there and since she visited we have added another one which does. I have to admit make a real difference.

tine k black wall light

Sally had another proposal and that was that we add a wall light at the end of the open shelves either instead of, or as well as, the clock that is currently there. This, together with the table lights, would make a soft, warm atmosphere when guests were round and mean we could turn off the overhead lights.

Since then I have been idly looking for a cool wall light to put there and I rather like this one. It’s by Tine K and I like the way you can swivel it flat against the wall when it’s not in use. Like all of you, we need and use all the space in our kitchen and I’m not keen on having something that sticks out from the wall, making it difficult to reach the shelves, when not in use.

black kitchen with white floors and my fiddle leaf fig
black kitchen with white floors and a fiddle leaf fig. image madaboutthehouse.com

 

This can swing out (sister) when we want it to and sit flat back against the wall for the rest of the time. Perfect. You should also know that this light comes in brass too…

extendable long arm brass wall light by tine k

Kate Watson-Smyth

The author Kate Watson-Smyth

I’m a journalist who writes about interiors mainly for The Financial Times but I have also written regularly for The Independent and The Daily Mail. My house has been in Living Etc, HeartHome and featured in The Wall Street Journal & Corriere della Sera. I also run an interior styling consultancy Mad About Your House. Welcome to my Mad House.

5 Comments

  1. I truly like your thought. The spotlights in the kitchen are so uninteresting! I additionally thought about the metal sconces craftsmanship deco, however simple to warm a ultramodern dim marble divider.

  2. I really like your idea. The spotlights in the kitchen are so uninteresting! I also thought of the brass sconces art deco, but very easy to warm an ultramodern gray marble wall.

  3. Aside from being supremely cool and elegantly simple, that light is a cinch to clean – it’s all too easy to clutter up a kitchen with things that attract grot and are a devil to dust.

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