The wall washer here does not simply clean the wall, but refers to the wall washer light effect. A variety of light fixtures can create a wall washing effect. Here you can get a comprehensive knowledge of wall washer light.
What Is Wall Wash Lighting?
LED wall washer light has both illumination and decoration functions. The LED light washed the wall like water, looking clean, bright, and aesthetic. The lighting distance of LED wall wash light is usually between 1m/3.28ft and 10m/32.8ft.
Wall washer is suitable for various styles of walls, perfect for architectural lighting, landscape lighting, museum lighting and art museum lighting to highlight cultural relics or works of art.
How To Use A Wall Washer Light?
There are a variety of lamps that can achieve wall washing lighting. LED wall washer lights have the characteristics of energy-saving, high light efficiency, rich light colors, and long life, so they are widely used in wall washer lighting.
a. The whole wall washing effect.
Available LED light fixtures: rigid linear wall washer light and flexible wall washer LED strip lights. They are all waterproof for indoor and outdoor applications.
The linear wall washer light adopts a durable aluminum casing, solid-state construction, and shock resistance. Comes with mounting brackets, which can be rotated to adjust the angle of light projection.
The flexible wall washer light led strip integrates multiple LED lights on the PCB board to form a linear light to illuminate the wall evenly. However, its wall washing range is relatively limited. For walls with higher floors, it is difficult to light the entire wall, and it can only illuminate about 500mm.
Once installed, the projection angle of the flex wall washer led strip cannot be changed, and the power consumption is lower. It supports cutting, which can well adapt to your installation length needs.
b. Illuminate a certain area.
Available LED light fixtures: LED downlights, LED spotlights, and LED recessed lights.
LED spotlights have a strong focus, and you can choose surface-mounted spotlights or track spotlights to achieve a wall washer effect. Compared with LED light strips, spotlights not only have stronger light intensity, but also have a larger lighting range, and can also adjust the lighting angle at will, making the LED lighting more flexible.
The spotlight’s light-gathering characteristic is suitable for highlighting wall items, or adding light spots to the wall to create a contrast of light and shadow.
c. Wall washer effect applied to background wall design.
Available LED light fixtures: LED wall lights.
Different from the top-to-bottom projection method of spotlights, the wall light is designed to be projected from the bottom to the top, giving people a more comfortable feeling without oppression.
Using the light characteristics of the wall washer, put some simple ornaments under the wall light, and the ingenious combination of light and shadow brings unexpected creative effects.
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