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If you find a wall too bare in your home, consider bringing new life to it through proper lighting. A dark, lonely hallway, for instance, can look more inviting with the use of some wall sconces. The wall sconce lighting illuminating the wall as well as the ceiling can transform the hallway and give it a cozier look.

Wall sconces can also be used outdoors. They may be positioned on each side of the front door. Aside from being a decor to make your front door look more welcoming, especially when you invite some guests over, the sconces also provide light for the door lock and front step. Choose soft lighting for that dramatic and subdued effect.

Make a statement when you finish a basement by adding just the right accent light.  There is another opportunity to accent color even before you reach the basement.  Try using a sconce to light and decorate the stairway to the basement and then the rooms down the stairs.  There are designs that even appear textured and draw out that sense of comfort or happiness.  Sconces can direct light down or upward or maybe neither; just display color.  Basements usually have shadowy corners or nook where a scone would be well placed.  Use your imagination to build that dream room that you have alway wanted.  A creative light fixture could be an economically solution to expensive artwork on a wall. 

A wall sconce is a type of light fixture fastened to a wall. The wall is its only support and it never touches the ground.  The light is usually directed upwards.  The word sconce can apply to modern gas and electric light sources affixed in the same way.

The word originally is derived from the Latin absconsus, and the French esconce. It signifyings a covering or protection or that which is covered or protected.

One would usually find a light fixture sconce in hallways or corridors to provide both lighting and points of interest. The placement of a sconce in a passageway is generally 3/4 of the distance up the wall. The distance between sconces on the wall is generally equal to the distance of the sconces from the floor and often alternating sides of the passageway. Sconce size should also be scaled to ceiling height.