We have just installed suspended wire lighting in the kitchen. The ceiling is really too high to attach anything to the beams, so using a suspended wire system seemed like the obvious choice.
There are 2 pairs of wires – one along the line of the kitchen work surfaces, the other over the breakfast bar. There are 4 lights on each. These are 12v LED lights. Each are 4.2W. So we have about 17W of lighting on each pair of wires.
The cables are fixed to the wall using some oak mounting plaques that the joiner made. The oak was left over from building the roof, so once these pieces of oak have been treated with Osmo, they will match the rest of the oak in the kitchen.
The suspended cable system is from SLV. You will find the lamp holders here: http://www.slvlightingdirect.com/track-lighting/wire-12v-lighting-system/slv-181080-lamp-holder-adjustable-wire-12v-system-light-black.html.
This is the view from below. Most of what you see is actually the outside of the light bulb. It will be important to make sure that we have spares should we get any failures. These are 12v MR16 LED bulbs.
We have yet to get these powered up (our electrician has done with archilles tendon playing football), but hopefully we will get these up and running next week.
An oak “plaque” has been screwed to the wall, then the chrome fittings are fixed to the oak. The oak was from the offcuts from the roof timbers, so by the time it has been treated with Osmo, it should all match.
The bulb forms 80% of the fitting (the plastic basket is actually part of the bulb). We need to make sure that we have some spares, otherwise we might end up with some non-matching bulbs. These are 12v LED bulbs that are rated for 25,000 hours, so hopefully it will be a while before we get any failures.
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