How would you design the lighting in the living room spot-wise? So far, only the sofa and the table are fixed. There will also be an LED ceiling groove lighting in Dual White.
I have already written a lot. But I think you and I don’t speak the same language when it comes to furnishing/design as well as lighting and spatial effect. That’s not bad, just two different worlds.
LED is usually not a nice light. That’s why the industry relies on products with different color nuances and incandescent bulb effects. Because LED will determine our light or already determines our life. There are hardly any alternatives left.
That’s why honestly the term LED is used way too much here, as if LED is some kind of magic solution to make a room cozy. It is not. Even the small lights arranged in a row or square or distributed otherwise, let’s call them spots (there are also from/to), are there to create something. Unfortunately, 12 years ago I planned a few rooms with spots, back then halogen ones. And I have to say: it brings no advantages on area, i.e. spread across a ceiling. Only a few areas benefit, for example if you want to accentuate, i.e. emphasize, and illuminate a row, a narrow room, or a hallway.
And now let’s move away from the magic word, because there is nothing else anymore, and simply talk about light: Of course, there is also “mood lighting,” indirect lighting, background lighting, which do exactly that, that is, create atmosphere. There is task lighting, there is directed light, there is area light. The latter is known from modern medical practices.
What kind of furnishing you have and where which light fits, nobody here knows.
A reading lamp as a floor or table lamp, but it can also be a pendant lamp like over a counter or dining table in a smaller form, may be necessary in the seating area for everyone sitting there. One reads, another does their nails, the next does handicrafts. And if not today, maybe in 3 years after the moving stress... or only in 10 years.
On every sideboard there could be a lamp, on every sideboard or chest of drawers there could be a floor lamp. And where a power outlet is missing, LED candles with a 6-hour function will do. No one can say that 250 lumens are enough for a corner of a room or 470, you can only decide that for yourself after you have tried it out.
Modern living also has little to do with not having such lamps, just as it is possible that rustic living can benefit from a linear lighting arrangement (light strip).
I’ll say this: I am building my first house and see a lot online. I want it to be cozy and maybe I’m also a bit afraid of planning the lighting too dim.
In my opinion, you are planning too much in the wrong places, and you are probably also using the wrong search terms.
If you already have a kink in the house layout and thus the visual axis is disturbed, then it doesn’t help to emphasize it even more.
Everything else I and others have already written.
Enough sockets for lamps.
Whether you make them switchable or not – on a manageable living area, e.g. a 20 sqm room, it personally wouldn’t bother me to walk to three corners within a few seconds and switch on the lighting. Meanwhile, I enjoy other things that are decorative. Elsewhere there is a timer switch. Others really enjoy operating a remote control and playing around with color change and dimming functions. There it already makes sense to consider how to switch them.
We personally hardly use our ceiling light. In the hallway, we temporarily have the staircase lighting (wall spots) on, plus a design sideboard table lamp. In the living area, two different floor lamps plus sometimes a table lamp. Above the TV, two battery-operated candles with timer function. Kitchen: task lighting and extractor hood light, when we leave there, in the evening a round table lamp behind a tall cabinet in the background. Dining area various stylish table lamps on a sideboard. We don’t even use the light switch in the guest WC because there is a table lamp in the window that turns on at dusk by timer switch. That’s enough for a quick visit. The bedroom has a two-way switch for the bedside lamps; those are wall lamps.
We clean in daylight.