Hire a lighting planner or not?

And you wonder why you blow half a million on a house....Sabine is so right. Karsten

Your comments are getting more and more useless.

Just a question, what is your construction volume?

Just a question, what is your construction volume?

All in all, it will come to about € 880,000 excluding the purchase of the plot.

You could consider a lighting designer.

You might consider a lighting planner.

We will probably do that too, even though the advice went more in a different direction. I have already had bad experiences with lighting in the last two apartments. The first time we even went to a specialty lighting store and got "advice." In the end, expensive fixtures came out of it, which did not illuminate various rooms properly at all and also did not result in a coherent overall concept together. In the current rental apartment, we simply equipped the ceiling fixture points with lights at a reasonable price, which fulfill their purpose better than the expensive fixtures in the previous apartment, but of course, that's not really great either.

And we are both not experts who can create a plan for a concept of direct and indirect lighting.

The electrician himself recommended (of course, this should be taken with caution, as they try to secure contracts) to hire a lighting planner; this might even save money because light sources are not installed profusely but really according to need.

That is also a huge topic. How do you light the outdoor area and the exterior of the house? Where does it make more sense indoors to have spots, ceiling fixture points, wall lights, or maybe ceiling uplights, etc.? As laypeople, we have no reasonable market overview regarding the products and as for just visiting a "specialty store," I have shared our experiences.

In the end, expensive lights came out of it that did not illuminate certain rooms cleanly at all and also did not result in a coherent overall concept together.

As I already said, shelves hung by Heini Huber according to schema F, pearls before swine.

And we are both not experts who can create a plan about a concept of direct and indirect lighting.

You know that you don’t want to fall on the stairs (= evenly bright) and that you prefer dim light with red wine (for lost earrings or contact lenses, there are LED flashlights).

That is also a huge topic. How do you light outdoor areas and the outside of the house? Where do spots make more sense indoors, where ceiling spots, where wall lights, and where maybe ceiling uplighters, etc.?

When it comes to safety aspects, the lighting planners (who are mostly lighting decorators by self-understanding) unfortunately fail.

If you don’t have real Kujaus on the walls, lighting planners are the most unnecessary luxury – but what I recommend planning, as I said, is the lighting control.