Ceiling spot arrangement

They already have good performance and should be sufficient for the room in the planned quantity from my point of view. The question about the arrangement can only be answered here if your furniture and your scenarios are clear. What can also be important are the colors of the walls, floors, and ceilings. If you have a color that "absorbs" the light, it quickly becomes dark.

For example, we installed 10 recessed spotlights (5W, 360 lumens, 90° beam angle) in the living area, which we can partly switch differently. In the evening while watching TV, the inner ring is off. When I read, only the inner ones are on. When we have visitors or are cleaning or similar, all are on. Above our dining table, we have a normal pendant lamp. The positioning of the ceiling outlet was even more difficult than that of the spots and unfortunately ended up being 30cm off.

I think there was once a nice thread here about calculating the illuminated area.

Short version:
Using tangent, you can determine the radius on the floor from the beam angle and the distance floor-to-ceiling or furniture surface-to-ceiling. Then simply draw a circle with the corresponding radius around your spots and you can see if there are any unlit spots in the room. I could imagine that at 1 and 2 you have unlit spots in the middle.

Or what do you think of option 4?



That is our favorite

I also had to decide on our spots just a few days ago. In the living room, as we were advised, the play of uneven lighting is what creates a cozy atmosphere. Even lighting with spots, on the other hand, would rather seem uninviting (does that word exist?).

Therefore, we have planned lamps above the couch area and the dining area. And only created a kind of basic or minimal lighting with spots.

Spots also apparently work well directly in front of large windows. I could well imagine 2 or 3 in front of the large windows at your place.

... this doesn't work.

More important is to answer the aspects that Jochen104 mentioned in here as well.

I also find a carpet of lights on the ceiling in the living area uninhabitable. I myself have spots to highlight special pieces of furniture and otherwise pendant lamps over the dining table and individual lights in various places. Everything should also be switchable separately.

That makes no sense at all. What are the spots supposed to be for? To show people that you can afford x of these things?

Above the dining table belongs a pendant lamp and by the sofa a lower light source for reading.