Sunny yellow, majestic purple or gentle cream on a textured surface: the visual impact of coloured walls is enhanced by the right light. Artificial lighting displays its advantages here, offering its services as an effective design tool: luminaires with wide or narrow-angle beams and lamps with warm, cool or different light colours optimise the room atmosphere required.

For cosy surroundings

For warm colours such as vanilla, mango or terracotta – which are currently in vogue – lamps with a warm-white (ww) light colour deliver an appropriate light. High-quality energy-saving lamps offer a nice and bright as well as economical solution, preferably in a warm-white or extra-warm-white light colour and with a good colour rendering index. The practical energy efficient lamps, which can simply be fitted in place of an incandescent lamp to save a great deal of energy, are also available as soft-tone models for a relaxing atmosphere with glare-free light.

Where brilliance is required

Coloured walls should be specially emphasised using recessed ceiling or floor luminaires, wall luminaires or spots. Mains-voltage or low-voltage halogen lamps are always a good choice, ensuring brilliant light and fresh colours. They emit a cooler light than incandescent lamps, making coloured walls and structured wall surfaces with gleaming pigments positively radiant.  

Halogen light also makes a gleaming eyecatcher out of a highly reflective material such as chrome or crystal. The right light colour for the home is warm white; where cool colours such as cobalt blue are present, neutral white is also an option.