Help with lighting planning

Hello Christian,
we also have a lot of recessed spots and we are really happy with them. But there are several things that don’t fit for you.
I'll try to summarize roughly:
Ground floor:
Hallway ok, if the upper ones are meant as stair lighting.
Study: spots arranged incorrectly. One workstation is dark.
Kitchen: lighting above the cooktop is missing.
Living room: this is not acceptable at all. You also have to align with your planned furniture. In addition, you should be able to switch them separately. A normal light above the dining table is still nicer. At first I was skeptical about that too, but I’m glad to have a normal pendant lamp there.
In the bathrooms you generally need additional lights.
Bedroom: you need to distribute them more throughout the room.
Children’s room: I would also stick with normal lamps.

In general, you should completely revise this and distribute the lamps better. Spots also produce significantly more light if they have a bright surface (wall) in their beam area (for area lighting pay attention to a high beam angle).

@Martina: Thanks for the offer. You can gladly send me the contact via PM. It's not that far anyway.

@Jochen: Thanks a lot for your explanation. Do you possibly have some pictures of your installation that you could send me via PM or email?

Hallway: The spots at the stairs are actually stair lights. Exactly how will still be considered.

Office: Unfortunately, I don't really know exactly how and what kind of light the spots will produce in such an arrangement. Our idea was that the spots would illuminate the entire room (also dimmed) and the desks would get desk lamps to be used if needed. Hence the evenly distributed layout in the room and not focused on the desks. Probably, the two desks will become one large one in the corner. Should this be taken into account in the layout here? Is the number okay?

Kitchen: Above the cooking plate is the (not drawn) extractor hood. Therefore, the area looks empty there. I want to make the spots above the countertop and the other spots switchable separately. For working and then for lighting the whole kitchen. At least, that was the idea.

Living room: So in the dining area, I am now gradually leaning strongly towards a normal lamp. That already looks nicer. Then it would also make sense to concentrate the spots in the living room better there (you can clearly see that we previously wanted to achieve an even distribution over the entire area). What possibilities would there be here? How would one best do the area between dining and living, since there is a transition from spots to the ceiling lamp and an area that is still empty? Or does one not have to do anything here? It’s not a very long distance after all.

Parents’ bedroom: The spots are arranged like this first because of the sloping ceilings (the 2m line is easy to see). Should we open a second row here and distribute a bit more?

Children’s room: I think we will still get some ideas and take a look.

Generally: Through the installation of KNX & DALI, a separate switching/dimming of different lighting circuits is planned and easily feasible. Therefore, this will not be a problem and is also part of the plan.

Best regards,
Christian

I like it subtle and punctual; and I have something in common again.

That is due to our longer life experience than most here

I quickly noted down: Kitchen: there must be a lamp at the seating area of the cooking island, preferably something hanging low, just like the dining table. Area of the kitchen with spotlights, e.g. arranged symmetrically in the center, task lights do not go on the ceiling but at eye level -> kitchen. Work area, dining area, dining table, and ceiling switched separately. I'll leave out the living room as well as the hallway. For work, a ceiling light is sufficient, most of the light should come from work area/desk lamps. For the stairs, I would use (built-in) wall lights, which should be switched together with the two wall lights on the upper floor. Kids: there are nice ceiling lights. Gallery spotlights + floor lamp. Bedroom: surface-mounted spotlights (are desired by you) (we have 9 of them in the smaller bedroom), in front of the wardrobes two separate ones each, switched together. Bathroom should be refitted, I'll leave that out as well.

Hello Yvonne,

thank you for your efforts.

We will now go through all the suggestions, think about them more carefully, and then create another plan to put up for discussion.

Thanks in advance until then.

Best regards,
Christian