Hello,
could you please help me with the placement and selection of recessed ceiling downlights?
I get the impression that some users here have a lot of knowledge. This is a bit overwhelming for me.
It concerns recessed downlights in the precast concrete ceiling, whose positions I need to determine before the ceiling is installed. The holes cost 130 Euro each without the fixtures. I find that quite expensive and therefore don’t want to go overboard with spotlights in the house.
I would like to have recessed lights only in the ground floor hallway and cloakroom. I want good illumination and don’t want to plan too many or too few. I want to be on the safe side!
I deliberately don’t call them spots, because I don’t want directional lighting. As I have learned from posts here, I want a wider beam angle and therefore floodlights. Which manufacturers are good for this? I was thinking dimmable, as I do not plan any other lighting in the hallway besides the recessed downlights.
How would you position the lights, and how many do I need?
The hallway is 5.47 m (18 feet) long from the front door to the living room wall. The dimension from the utility room wall to the end of the cloakroom / WC wall is 4.31 m (14 feet). The wardrobe cabinets probably go up to the ceiling, which changes the center of the room. I read that when planning lighting, the room center is not defined wall to wall but from the cabinet front to the opposite wall.
Thank you very much in advance!!!
Attached is an idea of mine. Does this work like this?
could you please help me with the placement and selection of recessed ceiling downlights?
I get the impression that some users here have a lot of knowledge. This is a bit overwhelming for me.
It concerns recessed downlights in the precast concrete ceiling, whose positions I need to determine before the ceiling is installed. The holes cost 130 Euro each without the fixtures. I find that quite expensive and therefore don’t want to go overboard with spotlights in the house.
I would like to have recessed lights only in the ground floor hallway and cloakroom. I want good illumination and don’t want to plan too many or too few. I want to be on the safe side!
I deliberately don’t call them spots, because I don’t want directional lighting. As I have learned from posts here, I want a wider beam angle and therefore floodlights. Which manufacturers are good for this? I was thinking dimmable, as I do not plan any other lighting in the hallway besides the recessed downlights.
How would you position the lights, and how many do I need?
The hallway is 5.47 m (18 feet) long from the front door to the living room wall. The dimension from the utility room wall to the end of the cloakroom / WC wall is 4.31 m (14 feet). The wardrobe cabinets probably go up to the ceiling, which changes the center of the room. I read that when planning lighting, the room center is not defined wall to wall but from the cabinet front to the opposite wall.
Thank you very much in advance!!!
Attached is an idea of mine. Does this work like this?
It's not just about the distribution of light but also the brightness. Three floodlights generally produce more light than two, and if that light is spread across the same area, it will naturally be brighter.
As mentioned, I think three floodlights whose beams barely or don’t overlap on the ground can create a very interesting effect, and with that, you would roughly illuminate the core area of the porch roof. With fewer lights, the illumination tends to be more uniform and less distinctive. It really depends on what you want to achieve.
There are online calculators that can help you determine the size of the light beam on the ground based on the mounting height (in case you can’t figure it out yourself). You can experiment with those to see if there are floodlights available that match the calculated values.
PS: This would actually be a genuine use case for spotlights in the proper sense (unlike the often incorrect uses seen here).
As mentioned, I think three floodlights whose beams barely or don’t overlap on the ground can create a very interesting effect, and with that, you would roughly illuminate the core area of the porch roof. With fewer lights, the illumination tends to be more uniform and less distinctive. It really depends on what you want to achieve.
There are online calculators that can help you determine the size of the light beam on the ground based on the mounting height (in case you can’t figure it out yourself). You can experiment with those to see if there are floodlights available that match the calculated values.
PS: This would actually be a genuine use case for spotlights in the proper sense (unlike the often incorrect uses seen here).
You can’t really generalize this, as it depends on the output of the spotlights. Just as an example: We have a canopy about 3 m (10 feet) high, approximately 2.4 m (8 feet) wide, and around 1.2 m (4 feet) deep. It is bordered on the right and left by the recessed house walls and lit by a total of four 6 W LED lights (two up-down lights) mounted at about 1.8 m (6 feet) height, providing approximately 1600 lumens in total. Even when I go outside in the middle of the night and turn on the lights, I am nowhere near "blinding brightness" by any measure. The area is reasonably illuminated, but I estimate that the floor receives a maximum of about 100 lux, probably less.
What would be your good advice for me? I am completely overwhelmed. A spotlight costs me 130 euros without the fixture. Quite expensive. But since I won’t have any spotlights in the house, I don’t want to be stingy. It shouldn’t be too bright and should look good. I thought three would be a good idea to be on the safe side. However, I don’t have any experience with recessed spotlights at all.
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