New construction lighting planning and implementation

True to the motto: Is this art, or can it be thrown away?
It's the same with lamps.

But even here the lighting designer says that he consciously refrained from uniform illumination.

A planner must first clarify what his client expects: for example, I could define my standard as "spotless light" (living area), or as "even throughout the day" (study), or as "nowhere bump into anything, but not wake up" (night lighting to the bathroom or kitchen). Also, "show me how to spend money stylishly on lamps" would be a legitimate directive - just certainly not mine.

When I consider that apart from our quirky but bright [Dunstabzugsleuchte] and the 1 meter wide under-cabinet lighting, there is nothing else present and the skylight in the form of two spots is almost never on, I have to say that the lighting planner can really have fun experimenting with you.

I agree with on this... that seems like an awful lot to me as well. Is every little red dot supposed to be a recessed ceiling spotlight?

And whether you need emotional/atmospheric lighting or rather bright/functional lighting in the hallway, especially with kids... I think the latter.

For the hallway on the ground floor/upper floor, I would mainly design it with motion detectors so that the light definitely turns off after a certain time. I don’t want to miss that in my own small hallway anymore.

Office... I wanted proper lighting over the desk... daylight lamp, which also casts light upwards. Picture from the setup phase in my apartment

In addition, I have a simple central ceiling light that I could have skipped, as well as a floor lamp by the sofa. For example, I can hardly think of any situation where the spotlights in the room corners planned for you would be needed.

Kitchen, I find the spotlights in the corridor between the wall unit and the peninsula unnecessary; instead, I would plan a spotlight on the lower right side below the cooktop and one or two wall outlets or possibly one or two spotlights in that corridor area on the left wall.

Living room, I would rather plan at least one wall outlet each between the windows at the top and on the left side instead of so many ceiling spotlights.

Upper floor master bathroom... something at the bathtub is missing for me.

Upper floor master bedroom... do you really need ceiling spotlights there? It was especially important to me that bedside lamps and main lights can be switched both from the entrance and from the bed.

Upper floor children's room... here too, I would find it important to have bedside light (=socket) switchable from both the entrance and the bed, possibly also the main light switchable that way.

Upper floor hallway, again with a motion detector would be practical, maybe also set so that at night it doesn’t turn on full brightness if you just need to go to the toilet. Because you don’t need optimal illumination of the hallway in that case.

The motion detector and the programming for the nighttime dimming of the light intensity are definitely planned as described.

The red dots are ceiling spots, whereas the wall lamps are meant on the wall. It is definitely fewer than with the last lighting planner (which is also linked here). Here it’s rather the case that it seems a bit too few to me here and there. In the hallway, guest WC, and possibly also in the two bathrooms on the upper floor, I am considering slightly increasing the number of spots. I want it to be quite bright in all three areas.

In the office, the spots in the corners are supposed to illuminate the room evenly. This could be useful for programming light scenes.

Lighting bathtub: I will address and clarify this tomorrow.

Spots in the master bedroom: I don’t find them disturbing. Of course, a ceiling light would also be possible.

...I want it to be pretty bright in all three areas.

In the office, the spots in the corners should evenly illuminate the room....

Then what's the point of all that fuss with the lighting plan if you want everything bright? One or two lights would be enough, right? Of course with a nice dimmer option or motion sensor... but I don't get it.

Also this whole mood thing... light from above or a spot from the wall has nothing to do with coziness (that's probably what is meant by mood). Every brown paper lamp from Ikea at eye level for 4.99 wins here.

I think you underestimate light a bit.
Our 8 sqm hallway is lit by two upward-facing wall spots of 1.5 watts each... I would get stressed if I were greeted by a brightly lit room.