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The Cafe Barn Wall Light

From: $233.80 AUD

The Cafe Wall Light provides a reading ambiance with a touch of style. This light is perfect for your home’s reading nooks

  • Popular Finishes
    Premium Metallics
    Colorbond®
    Duotones
    Essential Neutrals

    [DLQ] - Dulux Lexicon Quarter

    Lexicon® Quarter has a cool, fresh, modern appearance, particularly when applied to walls and trims. This finish will provide a seamless up-to-date style to your home, extending that look, feel, and style using a Barn Light ;). Powdercoat is a different product to paint, not all powdercoats look like paints, and the variance in satins, gloss levels, and matte level vary dramatically.

    WS975-Galvanised Appendum


    WS975-Galvanised is a premium, hand-painted finish manufactured from quality fine metallic paints and Acrylic Etch Primers designed to age with the building and surrounds.
    You'll be probably asking yourself, "Is it Steel?". The answer is NO, it is not. Its hand-dabbed automotive quality paint formula, sprayed by our employees.

    1. This paint/finish is expensive - 8Ltrs of this formula costs $800.
    2. We haven't changed paint formulation since 2014, (Changed in March 2026) and we've got this old finish installed at Seaworld (yes, that one) for the past 15 years.
    3. We don't keep stock - All parts needs to be batched. The pattern changes subtly based on the operator.
    4. Lead-times vary a touch more than usual due to the labour required to achieve this finish.

    By checking this box, you acknowledge that Warranties were limited to two-years from the date of purchase for this finish, as aging is a desired effect.
    Orders placed after March 2026 will receive a 3-Year Warranty in line with our existing Warranties.


    Please provide your desired Colorbond® Colour

    Order Colour Swatches See Available Duotones
    All Duotone Pricing is +$49.  Select "Design your own" to create your own unique finish.

    Interior Colour: Your Selection - Duo offers a Black Ace Finish as Standard

    External Colour (inc. Hardware & Mounting)

    Match your unique colour scheme by customising the external and internal colours and their appearances. See more about Duotones
    If you intend to purchase 3x+ of any product in duotone, please contact us or message via Livechat (we don't surcharge over 3x, however our website definitely will...)

    Internal Colour (inc. Cast Guards)

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Product description

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Design notes · materials · how it lives outdoors

The Cafe Wall Light

The Cafe Wall Light is the perfect light for small spaces like bedrooms, reading nooks, overlooking the kids study desk. Its focus on eye-level lighting makes it ideal for task lighting or simply providing a soft, ambient glow. Plus, its farmhouse or Hampton styling is sure to add a touch of charm to any room, and blend into your existing design styles.

Looking for some ideas? Check out what Oak + Orange developed with this Cafe Wall Light

The Cafe is also popular mounted pointing upward to light up a room with ceiling-refracted indirect light, especially for those with rustic timber beams. For those who desire a little more light on the ceiling, our Cafe can be rotated on a 360° Axis from the install point.
Please be aware of the limit of one full rotation, else the cable will become tied together within the wall cavity. If you’d prefer a pendant, look for our Cafe Barn Pendant in our Pendant lighting range

Have a Vintage Cafe Wall Light?

New?! – Our Original Bowie/Cafe Wall Light was unfortunately reliant upon an interstate supplier of electrical lighting components, and their supply issues during 2020~2022 eventually hit our shelves.

Both the Cafe Wall Light Lights & the Bowie Wall Light Lights were effected thus we’ve taken this fixture to a local engineering company to solve, and came out with this ideal solution.

If you have a prior purchase, the largest visual change is a move away from the M4 Screws that hold it to the wall, in place we’ll have a dedicated backing plate with three brass screws holding the entire fixture onto the wall – from a visual stand point – the entire fixtures would look almost identical if viewed from the side.

The outdoor rating has increase however no long requires a dedicated gasket as the new steel backing plate is supplied with gasket affixed for your electrician’s easy installation.

Materials & craft

Every shade is hand-spun in our Carrum Downs workshop — shaped on a lathe, not pressed in a die. We work in aluminium for three reasons:

  • It’s light. A spun-aluminium shade weighs a fraction of a steel equivalent, easier to ship and mount, with less load on brackets, arms, and ceiling roses.
  • It doesn’t corrode. Steel rusts. Aluminium doesn’t — even in coastal salt or humid climates. Powdercoat seals it; the underlying metal stays sound for the long haul.
  • It takes more skill to spin. Aluminium is softer and less forgiving than steel, so a clean shade silhouette is a craft outcome, not a stamping outcome.

 

At-A-Glance Specifications

FeatureDetails
OriginHandcrafted in Australia — Carrum Downs, VIC
Shade StyleCafe Shade — 17 cm
MountingBunker wall light
Standard RatingIP44 — outdoor-rated as standard
Pro UpgradeIP55 Beacon Caged (formerly Atomic) — full weather & coastal protection
LampholderE27 / Edison Screw — 60W max — dimmable (LED dimmer)
Input VoltageAC ~ 230V / 50Hz
ConstructionHand-spun aluminium shade, die-cast aluminium fittings, powdercoat-sealed
AestheticFrench Provincial · Compact · Premium
Australian Made✓ Yes

Dimensions

Product CodeShade Size (Diameter)Overall WidthOverall HeightOverall Weight
AU-WB-CAFE1717cm17cm28cm0.6Kg

Please Note:

  • For Chain, Stem, and Flush Mounted Pendants, the available options () are supplied in the selected Finish.
  • For Cord Pendants, the available options () are supplied in Black Ace Finish unless requested otherwise (surcharge applies).
  • Dimensions below are shown using mounting hardware type (Cord/Chain/Stem/Flush) shown pre-selected on the product page. All Dimensions are rounded up to the nearest Centimetre.
Our Shipping & Despatch Timeline

For products “in-stock”, we generally ship within the two-three (2-3) business days. The general rule for online orders is “two weeks lead-time”.
Certain finishes are quicker/easier to produce, thus the higher the complexity of your order (multiple colours/products), the longer the lead-time.

Product ConfigurationExpected Lead-Time (Business Days)
Smaller Quantities / Same Colours5-7 Business Days
Larger Quantities (10+) / Metallics / All-Over Colours 7-10 Business Days
Custom Colours / Duotones / Specialist Mounting / Customer10-14 Business Days

Free shipping (Minimum $600) where offered is provided by Australia Post. Transit Times from Carrum Downs, VIC does not include manufacturing time (table shown above).

State – Despatching from VIC, 3201Estimated Delivery (Business Days)
VIC2-3 Days
NSW / ACT2-3 Days
QLD2-5 Days
TAS2-4 Days
SA2-3 Days
WA4-5 Days
NT4-6 Days
New Zealand8-12 Days (Major Metro)
Our Warranties

As an Industrial Lighting Manufacturer, we’re certain our products will exceed warranties published. We have some understandable exclusions however expect the best from our lighting products and you should too.

Three (3) years from the date of purchase; where the,

  • Lighting utilised in a residential setting (House / Home / Unit).
  • Lighting installed in the correct Location Rating as certified.
  • Lighting powder-coated in Dulux Electro Powder Coat or “Coastal Colours” as defined

Two (2) years from the date of purchase; where,

  • Where Lighting is used in a commercial settings (Restaurant / Public Space / High-Traffic).
  • Any component of the Good is powder-coated in anything but Dulux Electro powder coat or WS975-GalvanisedDesigned to age.
  • Where any item of the product is situated within 200m from a coastal environment (excluding Coastal Rated Powdercoats).

We offer a 5-Year Warranty for customers opting into our “Photo Review” program. For information on how to apply for this program, please contact us.

Swapping Products & Components

Our ability as a manufacturer is to supply you with options, far exceeding your local lighting store. Have you purchased a wall light, and would have loved it to be a pendant instead, or decided it was too big on first impressions and needed to downsize? We can offer you this service, and a touch more. We offer no charge to down-size the shade, however charge the cost of the difference (ie $20) plus freight incurred by us as a courtesy. Hardware, components and similar products are charged as a proverbial (and nominal) cost. Need to know more? Contact us!

Returns & Credits

Barn Light provides a generous 90-day refund or 180 day exchange for change of mind purchase. Over 90-days and within 180-Days, we offer a credit for the same value.

Read our Return Policy

Specifications
Product Information
Product Code (Base)AU-WB-CAFE17


BrandBarn Light Australia
Country of OriginAustralian Made
Manufactured FromHand-Spun Aluminium, Die-Cast Aluminium, Extruded Aluminium
  
Technical / Electrical
IP RatingIP44 – Outdoor Rated
Max Wattage60W Max
Input VoltageAC ~ 230V(+/-10%) / 50Hz
LampholderE27 / ES / Edison Screw
Dimmable?Yes – Use LED Dimmer
Bulb Supplied?No – Optional
Total Bulbs1x
Hand-spun in Carrum Downs

Spun, caged and wired by hand — built to face the weather.

Each shade is hand-spun from a single disc of aluminium on a lathe in our Carrum Downs workshop, just south of Melbourne. We fit the cast guard and seeded glass, powdercoat it in your finish and wire it to order — aluminium won’t rust, so it holds its colour on a coastal porch the way steel never could. No two are stamped from a press; each one is shaped, finished and tested by a person.

In the wild

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Australian MadeIP44 / IP5560W MaxE27 EdisonDimmable3-Year Warranty
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