Wallwashing is an important component of architectural lighting for adding emphasis to facades. Further applications are:
- entrance areas
- passages
- atria
- overhanging or cantilevered roofs
- park and garden complexes

As recessed luminaires, wallwashers are inconspicuous architectural details. Surface-mounted downlights act as a room feature. They should correspond to the architecture in their arrangement and form.

Regional government of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein in Berlin

Kaufhof Medienfassade, Hamburg

ERCO P1, Lüdenscheid

Concentration Camp memorial, Belzec