The Old Dixie Cottage Wall Light

The Old Dixie Cottage Wall Light is a modern inspired wall light with a rustic design aesthetic. Its cascading and rigid neckline adds a touch of modern styling to the most prestigious of homes. The Cottage Wall Light family is popular for illuminating entryways, the Old Dixie’ s shallow-bowl styling throws a wide scatting of lighting dispersal, ensuring that ambience is attained in the darkest of corners.The use of hard edges and ridges across the Old Dixie’s 28cm body, the skirting shows cascades and designs most appreciated in modern homes. In order to soften a hard exterior of today’s modern home requires a delicate design touch and we believe our Old Dixie is the easiest way to accomplish this.

Modern Wall Light – What’s New?

Our existing range of Cottage Wall Lights meets and performs beautifully for a small lighting range, and the Old Dixie becomes its newest entrant in 2023. Compounding upon the success of our Old Dixie Gooseneck Barn Light, we now offer a smaller 28cm Old Dixie Warehouse Shade (this product) in the same mounting as the Austin, Universal, and Wesco Cottage Wall Lights. Soon, we’ll also offer our 28cm Old Dixie Farmhouse Wall Light for an expanded range of modern wall lights for the home owner to enjoyManaging Directors Note: It took us a year, a pandemic, lockdowns, and material shortages to finally bring you the Old Dixie in 2023. Its been worth the wait and unofficially we’ve been selling this shade off-line for the past six months – Its a definite a bestseller.

Styling interior wall lights

The Old Dixie can be a designer’s statement piece or a functional list for the average homeowner, its Modern design is perfect for adding a vintage appear to otherwise cutting-edge design in blacks and whites. Available in a large range of colours such as Medium Bronze, New Copper, Dark Bronze, and our eternal classic Black AceCrafted using a durable, Australian-spun Aluminium shade, brass-plated steel arm, and brass locknut, the Old Dixie Wall Light is robust enough to withstand daily wear-and-tear, (and when paired with the right coastal rated powdercoat) while still providing a warm, inviting glow upon the walls of our living spaces.

Federation Style Coach Wall Lights – Here’s your replacement.

Our Old Dixie Cottage Wall Light has been a star performer for those renovating and swapping out old coach lights, with our industrial / Hampton styled Austin Cottage Wall Light, remaining the start performer. While we do love a good coach light, those made popular in the 1990’s in new estates are definitely showing their age and restoration of these lights are nigh impossible.With its cascading, steppe styled hard edges and modern styling, it’s easy to see why swapping for our Old Dixie Wall Light makes it a favourite amongst exterior designers. Keeping with our red or cream brick façade and decorative iron details? Heritage or Federation colour schemes like Manor Red, Cottage Green, and Classic Cream.Available in a wide variety of colours, the Old Dixie requires only your colour scheme to finish the job and make it look light new.

Interior Wall Lighting

Modern lighting and interior lighting, and interesting condundrum. These days, the modern home has a variety of pancake LED downlights that interior lighting designers positively hate (Credit: Adele Locke // Mint Lighting).When used inside such as over your bedroom side tables or used within a reading nook – You can have all the ambience of a late Sunday afternoon’s reading marathon without burning your retinas every time you turn a page. There really isn’t a limit to where you can install the Old Dixie – Its larger profile (3cm larger than the Austin & Universal) means you can install it anywhere a larger proportion is required.For example: Over art works, family portraits, or scribble boards with shopping lists and messages of affirmations and areas that are not highly trafficked.We find that customers renovating their cookie-cutter, modern styled estate homes will commonly choose the Old Dixie Cottage for areas adjacent to entryways whilst pairing with our larger Old Dixie Goosenecks to accent around the driveway/garages to provide a consistent lighting spread.This means that from the street, through to garden (if so blessed!), from the garage, and through to your entryway doors – for safety and security purposes – You’ve got a modern wall light with purpose, aesthetics, and functionality all in one. Throw in our Old Dixie Post Mount Light to have the whole family of exterior lighting.

Exterior Wall Lights

Our Old Dixie Wall Lights comes complete with your selection of powdercoated outdoor (and coastal) rated finishes for added sophistication. We manufacture all of our wall lighting for the great outdoors and your home should be no exception whether you live near the coast or otherwise.The modern home can always benefit from a range of traditional lighting designs, especially those that feature some vintage-industrial spirit. Whether that be rattan, recovered timber, or linens – Make a lasting impression with our Outdoor Rated, Old Dixie Cottage Wall Light. A light that can resist the great Australian Outdoors.

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At-A-Glance Specifications

Feature	Details
Origin	Handcrafted in Australia — Carrum Downs, VIC
Shade Style	Old Dixie Warehouse Shade — 28 / 33 / 43 cm
Mounting	Cottage wall sconce
Standard Rating	IP44 — outdoor-rated as standard
Pro Upgrade	IP55 Beacon Caged (formerly Atomic) — full weather & coastal protection
Lampholder	E27 / Edison Screw — 60W max — dimmable (LED dimmer)
Input Voltage	AC ~ 230V / 50Hz
Construction	Hand-spun aluminium shade, die-cast aluminium fittings, powdercoat-sealed
Aesthetic	Modern Warehouse · classic + contemporary · old-school style
Australian Made	✓ Yes