Lighting planning ceiling LED spots

a I did write that. Panels and strips. Kitchens are predestined for surface and strip light sources. But what you often see then is this here: Dark kitchens and light cones. Brr. Often for a lot of money, since spots in filigree ceilings often do not cost just 10-20 euros, but 100+ per light source. You’d like to go to the builder and ask who committed this and why???

Terrible... living rooms or kitchens with recessed spotlights... I can’t stand those things even in hallways, but in the living room it’s a horror.

Panels and strips

Do you happen to have pictures that, in your opinion, show a successful lighting of a kitchen? I am currently doing a lighting plan myself... Thanks!

Just a small example that I liked: if you Google "Robert Stolz Tisch" without quotation marks, you will come across the page of a professional chef. In his kitchen, he has found a good balance between his needs, such as lighting (especially of the kitchen island) on one side and a certain aesthetic (accentuation on the cabinets and not too intrusive from the dining table) on the other. The main elements are 4 double spotlights, recessed in the ceiling above the aisles, which can be individually directed. In the left row, for example, one spotlight on the cabinets and one on the island each. In addition, the light from the ceiling hood. From my own perspective: nothing was glaring and yet everything was pleasantly illuminated.

We couldn’t do that in our place because the installation depth of these stylish spotlights is too large. We will try to do something similar with surface-mounted spotlights and have initially only agreed on dimmable light outlets. Hopefully positioned correctly...

Ultimately, of course, a matter of taste.

A "spot" as a short form of "spotlight" refers to a light source that emits strongly focused light. This is probably hardly desired here.

Then just put in bulbs with 120° and they won't emit focused light anymore.

You always have to consider what you want, for example, in our house in the living rooms we have no single normal lamp except above the dining table. Simply because we don’t like any lamps and a decent lamp is not cheaper than spots anyway.

The spots in the living room are, for example, dimmable and are used as general lighting. If accent lighting is desired, there is a floor lamp in the corner.

I agree with dimmable spots as general lighting. I don't see it as so dramatic.

Then just put in bulbs with 120° and they no longer emit bundled light.

True, but then it is definitely not a "spot" but a floodlight. Just to clarify again: The term "spot" does not say anything about whether a lamp is built into the ceiling or not. Nevertheless, this meaning is repeatedly (incorrectly) assumed, also by .