While we have been sorting out the small wall at the front of the property, we are also sorting out the uplighters that will light up the front wall at night. This has been a little more involved that I first imagined.
There seems little point in shining light onto the wall directly underneath a window – it isn’t going to show any texture on the wall and it is only going to shine light inside. So we have decided to place the lights evenly under the parts of the wall without windows. I think this should work, but I am worried that the lights are not evenly spaced.
The next concern was how far do the uplighters have to be from the wall to illuminate the wall. This obviously depends on a number of factors – type of light, type of lamp, distance between the wall and the lamp etc. The only really way of finding out what it might look like is to try it! With that in mind, we put a plug on one of the lights and experimented with how far away it should be from the wall.
This shows the effect of one external light positioned about 50cms from the base of the way. This is using a 5W LED lamp with a 45 degree spread. We will position 5 lights along this wall to show up the texture of the stone. We are using Robus uplighters.