Height of Picture rail and wall light?

[compact]

Hi

I have a 1930's semi which I am renovating, I've removed the picture rails, re plastering and replacing them, also including wall lights.
Which one is higher (or lower)?

I've searched and read
Picture rail 300 - 500 cm from ceiling or level with tops of door frames.
Wall lights 152 cm.


But what is the norm, picture rail higher or lower than wall light?

 

[EFLImpudence]

But what is the norm?

Picture rail 300 - 500 cm from ceiling or level with tops of door frames.
Wall lights 152 cm.

You seem to have answered it already.

 

[ricicle]

It depends on how high you have the picture rail, whether you are to actually hang pictures from it, and whether or not you have picture lights

If it is just a high level, decorative, rail then I would have the light definitely below it. Wall lights look gash too high up !

btw I take i you mean mm !

 

[EFLImpudence]

I didn't notice that.

No wonder there was a doubt.


If you'r thinking 152cm. is very precise, it's 5 feet.

 

[big-all]

doorframe top and picture rail 2m ceiling height 2.4
wall lights 1.5-1.8m

now you would have the wall light nearer 1.8 to look right imho
but all depends on the set up off the room

 

[ban-all-sheds]

If it is just a high level, decorative, rail

Not really:

Picture rail 300 - 500 cm from ceiling or level with tops of door frames.

Wall lights look gash too high up !

And if they have any form of uplighting function they will look gash below a picture rail.

 

[ricicle]

Wall lights look gash too high up !

And if they have any form of uplighting function they will look gash below a picture rail.

So if a picture rail was 300mm from the ceiling, you would fit an uplighter above it Bleurgh.....

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I didn't say that - I was talking about the OP's picture rail.

At 300mm I'd either not have uplighters or I'd lose the picture rail.

I have wall lights which are an opaque glass quarter-sphere, open at the top, so a considerable amount of light shines upwards. The top is 250mm from the ceiling, and the bottom 390. If I had a picture rail at the height of my door frames it would be at 420mm, so the lights would be above it.