BF-2019 - Raw Ceramic Interior Wall Light

The Domus BF-2019 is a raw ceramic wall uplight made in Italy, 350 mm wide and 70 mm deep, taking 2 × G9 lamps and designed to be painted to match the wall.

What an uplight of this shape does to a room

• All the light goes up the wall and across the ceiling. You see a soft wash and a bright ceiling, and no source at all — the fitting is below eye line and shielded.
• ✅ It makes a low ceiling feel higher, which is the reason to use it in a hallway or a stairwell rather than a downlight.
• ✅ Zero glare. Nothing to look into, so it works in a corridor people walk towards.
• ⛔ It is not a reading light and it will not light a room on its own. Pair it with something task-oriented.
• ⚠ It shows every flaw in the wall above it. Grazing light is unforgiving — on a poorly finished plaster wall it will find every ripple.

Choosing the lamps

2 × G9, 60 W maximum for the fitting.

• ⭐ 60 W is the maximum for each lamp, not for the fitting. Across all 17 G9 fittings in the BF ceramic range the datasheet says 60 W whether the fitting takes one lamp or two, so the figure cannot be a total. The BF-2185 settles it: one G9, and its sheet says 40 W — the number tracks the lamp. The BF-2020 states it outright in its own title: “2x60W”.
• ✅ So the pair here is rated to 120 W in total — far more headroom than you need. ⚠ We would still not run 120 W of halogen in a closed ceramic body. Use LED G9s: 4 W each gives roughly what a 40 W halogen did, runs cool, and puts the pair at 8 W.
• ✅ Use LED G9s. A 4 W LED G9 gives roughly what a 40 W halogen did, runs cool inside a ceramic shell, and removes the wattage question entirely.
• ✅ Choose a high-CRI G9 if the wall is a colour. A cheap G9 will flatten a painted wall; CRI ≥90 will not.
• ⚠ Both lamps must be the same colour temperature. Two different G9s in one fitting produce a visibly split wash.

Living with ceramic

• Made in Italy, and it is a genuinely solid ceramic body rather than a coated plastic.
• ⚠ Ceramic chips. Handle it before painting, not after, and keep it out of corridors where furniture gets carried past at shoulder height.
• ⚠ Repainting later means repainting the fitting, which is a feature if you want it invisible and a nuisance if you change colours often.
• ⚠ Warranty is one year, not the three most of this catalogue carries.

Where it works

• ✅ Hallways, stairwells and landings — where a fitting should not be seen.
• ✅ Living rooms and bedrooms as ambient light alongside something else.
• ✅ Walls that are being painted anyway — paint the fitting at the same time.
• ⛔ Not bathrooms or outdoors — raw ceramic and an indoor rating.
• ⛔ Not as a room's only light.
• ⚠ Not on a poorly finished wall — grazing light finds every ripple.

Specifying it

Raw ceramic wall uplight, made in Italy. 350 mm wide, 70 mm deep and 70 mm high. Requires 2 × G9 lamps — not included. 60 W maximum per lamp — 120 W across the two (⭐ resolved by measuring the whole BF range, not assumed). Supplied unpainted and finishable with any water-based paint. 240 V AC, indoor. 50,000 hrs fitting life. ⚠ Warranty 1 year. ⚠ Our record flags it as colour-changing — it is not; it has no LED, only lamp holders.

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