Home Lighting Accessories

What every fitting already includes

All the mounting hardware and the installation instructions are supplied with every light on this site. Nothing here needs a bracket, a plate or a fixing kit bought separately. Several also include extras worth knowing about:

• The kitchen island bar comes with eight rods, six at 29.5cm and two at 15cm, which set four different hanging heights.
• The six-globe pendant comes with six rods, four at 20cm and two at 10cm.
• The swing arm sconce comes with a 1.83m plug-in cord and four adhesive cable clips for tidying it along a wall.
• The up-and-down LED pair comes with two sets of mounting accessories and two pairs of gloves, to keep fingerprints off the acrylic during installation.
• The solar spotlight comes with both ground stakes and wall screws, plus an adjustable extension rod.
• The garden light set comes with two stakes per light, one standard and one elevated.

Bulbs: who needs them and who does not

This is the accessory people most often forget, so here is the whole answer in one place.

• Bulbs included: the modern chandelier (six E12, 4000K) and the swing arm wall sconce (one 6W dimmable LED at 2700K).
• No bulbs needed: the bathroom vanity light, the black vanity light, the modern wall sconce and every solar light, all of which use integrated LEDs.
• Bulbs to buy: everything else. Each product page names the base, how many the fitting takes and the maximum wattage, so you can buy the right ones anywhere.

Dimmer switches

Never included, on any fitting. Where a light is described as dimmable it needs both dimmable bulbs and a dimmer switch rated for the load, and with LED bulbs that means an LED-rated dimmer. Mismatching those is the usual reason a new light flickers.

One exception in the other direction: the modern wall sconce must NOT go on a dimmer. The maker states plainly that it will flicker.

If you cannot work out which bulb a fitting takes, email us at theteam@modernlight.uk and we will tell you.