LED panel or LED spots, built-in or surface-mounted?

Hello.

For my future house, I am wondering which lamps I should install.

Professionally as an electrician and also as a user in office buildings, we often install LED panels in 62x62cm in Owa ceilings, cheap and easy to reposition.

This results in very even illumination, with no glare and no harsh shadows due to the low luminance of the large surface.

I have also already installed some panels at home.

But when I enter modern houses, everywhere there are only small bright light points, sometimes very many of them, especially in the area of a kitchen countertop.

Often, recesses for small lamps / downlights are already planned.

Is this practical, or does it just look cool?

An LED panel in a surface-mounted frame doesn’t look so great either, and I don’t know anyone at home who has an Owa ceiling.

What alternatives are there for flat lamps with a larger luminous surface?

Regards and thanks

We have a few spotlights, one above each shower and one above a toilet, as well as 3 in the hallway. I would do it the same way again. In the kitchen, we have the task lighting in the upper cabinets, which is much closer to the work area than a bunch of spotlights on the ceiling.

I have installed several 20 x 20 cm recessed LED spotlights/panels. You can see them at the top left next to the LP. They are almost completely flush and provide bright light. I can set the color temperature in three levels. I have installed them in several rooms. First, I had the drywall installer cut the holes. Then the installation went very quickly.

In my opinion, spots are not cool and I also can't explain why they are used so excessively in every newly built place. It usually looks like a doctor's office or operating room when the client has skimped on the dimmers. I would much more rely on isolated accent or point lighting (spot actually means point and not mass) as well as indirect light. Where you really need a lot of light (and that is rather not in the living area) you can use panels well. They provide, as you say, properly even light.