New construction lighting planning and implementation

You have to remain flexible with the pictures. I agree with that. I also don't see myself in a position to plan every picture. I just noticed that in the huge living room in the end there probably won't be any space left for wall pictures. And I find that annoying.

The situation should not be like that after lighting planning, especially potential hanging locations for pictures are not suitable to be stepchildren of lighting planning: acrylic requires different treatment than watercolor behind glass. If it is not even clear where the pictures would be, then it seems to me that something essential remains undone.

Question without badmouthing the topic !!!

Do others feel the same way?

I will completely ignore the topic of lighting planning and this automation story (everything electrically controllable, the new technology house) when building a new house.

I have been living in a newly built rental for 5 years where every room has light and the kitchen is also very well illuminated.
I have never even remotely thought that the lighting situation could be better.

And this was seriously not meant to be against the topic.

Am I alone with this?

And no, I am not building a mini low budget shack.

No, you are not alone in that. I didn't care about the lighting design either, and still don't.

Short counter-question: Have you never experienced in hotels, restaurants, museums, or elsewhere how lighting can influence your own perception?

Regardless, of course everyone must decide for themselves whether a) they relate to it and b) whether they want it and assign value to it.

I would never want to derive a rule from that in the sense of: "You have to do that in new buildings."

For myself, however, I see a difference, and buildings with appropriate lighting concepts also seem more valuable to me. But that is a personal feeling and certainly not suitable for generalization.

You can do so much ... Some just have to take everything with them. It's also a budget issue.

We also don't have a lighting planner and I don't feel the need to highlight any objects in the room in particular or anything like that. Nor do I have a multi-thousand euro lamp budget. We think about how to make it bright (work light) and how to make it cozy (dimming, indirect lighting). For that, we make a science out of other things that are important to us.

But the appetite certainly comes when eating. That's how the KNX people here also like to argue.

Am I alone with this?

No - I also believe that you don't need lighting planning. But one thing you need even less than lighting planning: namely a lamp shopping list at the price of lighting planning