Change existing lighting - ideas?

Hi everyone,

during our house construction, the lighting planning unfortunately was completely neglected. This annoys us so much now that we want to tackle the topic. We implemented several circuits and the "basic lighting" with 24V tunable white in the living area. At first glance, you will recognize that this is just a "dull glow" and absolutely not sufficient in brightness.

My idea now was to double the TW spots and replace them with stronger ones. There are 180mm Halox P boxes set in the concrete ceiling, which currently have a 68mm hole for the spots. At first, I thought of double attachment spots, but meanwhile, I have landed back on recessed ceiling lights. I like the SLV New Tria 68 two-flame at first glance. These should just about fit into the Halox box.

Questions:
- Do you have another idea or is this approach reasonable?
- In the kitchen, we have regular spots above the cooking island, as these are brighter than the TW. Should we replace these immediately for optical reasons? Otherwise, it would be a different module carrier.
- Especially in the living room, the TW lighting (4 spots over >20m2) is severely undersized. We also have 3 additional ceiling outlets in the middle, where currently three Nordlux Aver hang. Is there a better idea than leaving the pendant lights there?
- Is it possible to make a clean square cutout in the drywall of the Halox box? If yes, what is the best way? I have often read about a keyhole saw or jigsaw.

Attached is the plan so that the text can be better understood.



I look forward to your ideas.

Best regards and thanks

For the cutout, I can recommend Fein Multimaster to you. I cannot say anything about the planned spots.

too dark,
there are e.g. YT tutorials by Paulmann with the necessary light intensities in lumens per m2 for living, dining, bathroom, kitchen, that means function comes before design and not the other way around like with you.
Calculate the necessary light all together.
In our case similar room size, 12,000 lumens, 4 main areas, all dimmable

too dark, for example, there are Paulmann YT tutorials with the necessary light intensities in lumens per m2 for living, dining, bathroom, cooking, which means function comes before design and not the other way around like in your case. Calculate the necessary light together. For us, similar room size, 12,000 lumens, 4 main areas, all dimmable

Somehow I can't make anything of your answer. The house is already built and we have been living in it for over a year. The lights will continue to be tunable white running via a KNX LED controller. Do you have a concrete suggestion regarding lights?

I can recommend Fein Multimaster for the cutout. I cannot say anything about the planned spots.

Thanks, good tip :-)

no, I have nothing to do with KNX, if the design and TW are so important, then increase the number of lights until it is bright enough