Lamps, spots and lighting plans

In the kitchen, there is no overhead extractor hood, but a Berbel Moveline table hood, so we do need different lighting because otherwise the entire island is not illuminated.

I would reconsider the lighting of the kitchen island with ceiling spots. Lighting at head height is more pleasant for working.

I would also consider that.
You should be aware that this spot lighting is a modern but expensive area or accent lighting. It can be used if the effect is to illuminate an area or row, e.g. a row of cabinets or a long hallway.
However, the light can also be provided by a normal lamp or a double or triple spotlight from a ceiling outlet. You have ultimately differentiated that well in your rooms.
Some people find these spots so great (like ) that they use them everywhere. I find the feature that only 10% light up when there is movement, e.g. in the upstairs hallway, nice. But using spots everywhere can look very busy, and unpleasant reflections can also occur.
Spots are not workplace lighting. If you place them above an island, you cast shadows on yourself.

As a guideline: at our place, a spot was placed every 80 cm on the surface. Therefore, I would already install 2 rows of 4 spots each in your bathroom.
In the closet room, I would add a third spot, 2 somehow don’t seem enough.

The same applies to spots: create a grid or line for the room and plan them in a row or rectangle.
If that is too many spots overall for you, I would take spots in the closet room and bathroom and skip them in the kitchen. Because usually, the workplace lighting is enough to clean all corners.
But: where exactly do you want to place task lighting in the kitchen? You don’t have wall cabinets, do you?
It is currently trendy to hang pendant lights in a row. If you want that, then I would continue that above the island. Otherwise, I would install task lighting at eye level on the wall where the island is.
I have briefly marked examples in your plan. In the living room—I don’t know how you want to furnish it—I have set 3 spots on one wall as an example; they could highlight a nice wall picture or a stone wall.
P.S. I have only given rough estimates. For you, everything must be measured exactly.

Wow, another long text with many tips. Thanks!

This is how the kitchen will look.
There are already 5 lights under the wall cabinets. We considered pendant lamps over the island, but I’m not sure if they would work and actually we didn’t want anything at head height there. Something sideways would be another alternative. We will think about that again. I had hoped that with the 2x3 arrangement of the spots over the island, the shadow cast by one spot would be eliminated by the light of the other.
Haha, initially 3 were planned in the dressing room, then I'll bring it back to the original plan.
In the living room, the furnishings with TV and L-shaped couch will probably be roughly as drawn, but the lights fit really well as you sketched. Somehow I had a hanging lamp in mind above the sofa, but that’s nonsense. I think the 3 spots are a cool idea, but we wanted to keep the option open to possibly place the TV corner there as well.

Above the dining table there should be a long hanging lamp that we already have; I wanted to avoid a 10cm "monkey swing" there.


Thanks for the tips. A wall lamp will go on the stair wall, and there will be 4-5 wall spots as stair lighting. A lamp will be installed in the storage room. Both are not included in this plan as they have no impact on the concrete ceiling and can be decided later.
In the bathroom: Both showers will get doors. Therefore, the curtain problem is not that important.
In the first draft, there was no central lamp in front of the mirror cabinet, precisely because of concerns that directed light from above might not be so nice for looking at oneself in the mirror. We will think about that again.

Spots are not workplace lighting. If you place them over an island, you cast shadows on yourself.

I don't think you can say that so generally. The spots just really have to be placed above the island and not beside it or anything like that. In the old house, we had spots spaced 80 cm apart above the work surfaces, and that works wonderfully. Ceiling height 2.90 m.