When equipping your home, you often have to do a variety of work yourself, this includes connecting all kinds of electrical appliances. This article will tell you how to properly connect a sconce with a lace switch.
Wall lights with lace
Modern lighting fixtures have a different type of inclusion: using a key, using a button, lace or chain. Wall sconces are an excellent addition to the interior decoration, but here one should not forget about another advantage - functional purpose - lighting of certain areas of the room.
Wall sconces are great for installation in the bedroom, hall, bathroom. Quite often, with the help of them, they illuminate long corridors or certain areas of utility rooms. It is very convenient to use a sconce for reading or needlework, so they are often installed over a bed or over an armchair.
Designers like to use lighting from wall lights to realize their ideas in order to emphasize certain elements of the interior and mask protruding details. To date, the range of such lamps is huge, so it is possible to choose different shapes of shades, color schemes, as well as different designs of the light flux.
How to connect a sconce with a lace switch
Before you begin installing the sconce, you need to accurately determine the location of the device, carefully take measurements. This is especially true for paired fixtures, which will be located in parallel. To determine the location of the lamp, you need to take into account the established rules - usually such lamps are installed at a level of 1.5 meters from the floor. Here the question often arises of how to connect a sconce with a switch with a cord so that extra wires are not visible. To do this, you must first perform hidden wiring for the subsequent connection of the lighting device.
Installation itself begins with the connection of two or three wires. Before this, the network must be de-energized, and the work will be carried out using a sharp knife and insulation tape. First, the insulation at the ends of the wires is cleaned - about 5-8 mm each. Then stripped wires need to be bolted to certain terminals.
Possible types of connection
In this section of the article we will tell you how to connect a wall lamp with a switch with a cord having two or three wires.
1. With the three wires available: ground, zero, phase. They are connected to certain terminals, clamping the tip of the wire with a clamping bolt.
2. If there are two wires: a white or brown wire (phase) is fixed to terminal L. A blue wire (there can be any shades of blue) (working zero) is connected to terminal N.
After all the wires are connected, you need to close the case, putting the protective cover. The lamp is mounted on the wall with self-tapping screws.
Thus, we figured out how to connect the sconce with the switch with a cord, it remains only to install the plafonds and check the lighting device.
Sconce for bedroom and children's room
Having chosen a lamp of a certain model, shape, color, you must definitely consider in which room it will be installed, because different lamps are suitable for different rooms. For example, a sconce in the nursery or bedroom should be with a soft diffused light. Such lighting relaxes and prepares for sleep. Here, a dense lampshade on a lamp or matte shades is perfect. For a child’s room, you need to take care of safety for everything else: here the sconces cannot be crystal or glass, so that the child does not accidentally break them and get hurt.
It is very convenient when the brightness of the lighting changes on the lamp - you can replace the camera light with a brighter one when you want to read. This is also very convenient for a children's room, because children are often left with weak light all night, so the sconce can serve as a lamp and a night lamp. In nightlights, the use of LED lamps is quite popular, as they save electricity.
Where to install sconces with lace in the bedroom and children's room
Usually wall sconces with a lace in the bedroom are installed at the head of the bed. If the bed is double, then there is one lamp from each side. If the bed is single, then one lamp from one side. The method of installing the sconce in the nursery is slightly different: here it is usually installed over the chair, so that it is convenient for an adult to read fairy tales to the child before bedtime, and the light does not interfere with the baby's sleep. At the same time, it’s very convenient to use a sconce with a lace switch to turn it on and off without leaving your chair.
Wall sconces are great for bedrooms and children's rooms, as they not only serve as decorations, but also add functionality to the bedside area. They do not take up space on the bedside tables, thereby making it possible to put more necessary things on it.
Sconce for hallways and bathrooms
Luminaires in the hallway and bathroom are selected according to other criteria. Often these are small rooms where sconces are the main source of light. But for a more effective design of these rooms, sconces are specially installed to illuminate mirrors and the most significant areas. Choosing a lamp for the bathroom, you need to take into account the humidity of this room: most likely, you will have to purchase a waterproof lamp. And in order for this device to look better, it is necessary that the plumbing materials are combined with a lamp.
Lamps in the hallway should be chosen according to the following principle: they should not differ in too bright light, because a person comes here from the street or from the entrance and a bright light in the eyes causes not too pleasant sensations. If the entrance hall in the apartment is made in the form of a long corridor, then several identical sconces installed in a row will look great here.