Hallway lighting

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Greenwood was a perfect blank canvas when I bought it a year ago. The walls were all a milky white and with the exception of the downstairs all the lighting was plain and awaiting my personal touch.


A year later and I have finally got round to sorting the hallway and bedroom lighting. I mentioned previously that I had bought a light fixture for the bedroom but not yet had it put up, well after coming back from Austin I had more holiday money left over than anticipated and finally forced myself to buy the hallway lights I had been deliberating over for several months.

The difficulty is that I needed three lights for the main landing on the first floor and one for the top of the stairs on the second floor and ideally I wanted them to be a bit of a statement but also the same.

Since the landing is a slightly funny narrow Victorian shape I also wanted something relatively slim that would not over power the space and it did not feel right seeking something ultra-modern.

I once read that lighting is the jewelry of a room and I think that is particularly the case in a thoroughfare such as a hallway where there is no furniture and lighting and art become more important.

I spent a lot of time looking at period appropriate lighting and whilst I love these, the upturned glass fixture would have required regular dusting and cleaning to make sure that dust did not collect and I felt that was not realistic for me given my lifestyle.

I wanted a fixture that would allow enough light to be thrown but was not clear glass which would show dirt to easily. So I started looking at opaque glass fittings which would throw lots of light but not require lots of upkeep.

Colour wise the handles and light switches in the house are all brushed chrome but I am not a lover of chrome light fixtures, and found myself drawn to brass, burnished brass and black light fittings.

As the ceilings and floors are not completely even in my house the fittings needed to be adaptable so they could be made shorter depending upon the ceiling height. This meant looking at chain lights with links which can be removed to make them the perfect height.

Schoolhouse light

In the end I settled on a schoolhouse design with a black fitting and white cloudy glass fitting. The school house lights have been around since the 1920’s and was a style adopted in libraries, schools and other public buildings. Given that electricity did not reach most homes until after World War One they are also of an era when Greenwood probably first had electricity which gave a good nod to the history of the house. The style is both classic, throws a soft clear light which was perfect for the hallway.

The ones I bought came from Homelava and were £61.25 each, as they came from China there was also postage costs of about £13. I would say that had I not paid for an electrician it would have been very difficult to put the lights up ourselves as they had to be put together and there were no instructions.


I have put together some other traditional style lights that were in the running for the hallway in case you are interested. 


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