Hello, I want to obtain two uplighters for my kitchen. I would like to get some which resemble half a cup, stuck on the wall but it seem that the ones which are generally available, are all too wide. I would prefer them to be about 180mm to 210mm long (7 or 8 inches)
Can someone please recommend a place to look?
TIA
Too wide? If I was to make a couple of uplighters, I'd take the 2 * 11W CFL floodlights I bought from morrisons, for 3.49 total, and make a couple of half-cone holders to go onto the wall out of probably sheet aluminium, or cardboard.
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You'll be lucky. A GLS shape light bulb and a socket for it to go in are about 6 inches. Leave a bit of space so it doesn't get too hot, plus the thickness of the ceramic and you're over that already.
How about some of these?
half cup uplighters give a light source much too close to the wall. The result is the plasterwork looks bad and there is glare from the wall.
The usual wall spotlights on short stalks make quite good uplighters, their only treal limitation being that the small size permits a max of about 7w cfls. So, use 2. Standard R80 spots are about 3.5" wide.
NT
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