Lighting / Ceiling Spots

Now that's a statement you can work with.

Is the light above the countertop in the kitchen sufficient then?

In the living and dining area, I would use no spots or only very few – because they are not cozy. In the kitchen, we installed 11 spots (plus two in the extractor hood) for just under 17 sqm, and that is enough – there shouldn't have been fewer. Otherwise, only the hallways and bathrooms have spots – the rest are wall and ceiling lights and one floor lamp.

Well, that's a statement you can actually work with.

But please still take it with caution. This is only the result I derived from various conversations. Whether it will actually turn out well in the end, I myself am curious.

Is the light above the countertop in the kitchen sufficient then?

Two electricians had drawn a possible arrangement of the spots in our floor plan as a suggestion, and both marked 8 pieces in an L-shape along the kitchen. The room is open to the dining area and has 9 sqm, the mentioned 3 x 3 meters. So I assume that the light is sufficient. But I will only be certain when I see the result.

In the living and dining area, I would use no or very few spots at all – they are not cozy.

Why exactly do you find that not cozy?
There are also different light colors/intensities, maybe that needs to be taken into account additionally?

We are planning 4 switching options:
- the right 2 rows = living
- the left 2 rows = dining
- outer ring
- inner ring

In addition, the whole thing should be dimmable (which requires bulbs suitable for dimming). Hopefully, one of the variants will create coziness.

Spots simply don’t create coziness - any lighting planner will tell you that. Spots are more for accent lighting - or for traffic areas or sanitary rooms where light is needed. In the ground floor/basement corridors plus the utility room, for example, we installed round LED panels - similar to spots, but they diffuse the light more.

I have a lot of dimmable lighting as well, but you have to use it. For example, I can dim in the corridors (including the wall lighting) - why, I don’t even know myself.

It probably also depends a bit on the style of furnishing. But I find spotlights rather uncomfortable. We only have 3 in the bathroom. Above the washbasins and in the shower. And lamps also remain indispensable pieces of furniture for me.

We originally wanted to have spotlights in the kitchen, hallways, and the cloakroom, but then we decided against it.

What I would be interested in, though: What did you pay for a spotlight? Including installation/wiring/light bulb?