Planning recessed spotlights for hallway and wardrobe - tips

I deliberately don’t write spotlights, as I don’t want point lighting

Thumbs up! I already like your planning and the hints on positioning from are very helpful. Also follow up on the tip from . I find the large-area daylight lights that are slowly coming on the market especially interesting. Visit an exhibition again where you can find this technology. On Google, you can get further with terms like Design, Post, and Köln, among others.

Isn’t the problem with the flat LED panels that you can’t replace the light source?

That’s not a problem given the lifespan and long warranty. Also, the better panels can be repaired.

If it is too bright or too dark in the hallway, you can’t swap it out and adjust it

The panels are now standard flicker-free and dimmable—in brightness and light color.

And which manufacturers produce good and inexpensive LED panels?

In the utility room, I took a fairly inexpensive one from an online LED shop and am surprised how well it works. In the guest bathroom, I built it myself, as the format 1.25 x 1.45 was not available to buy. I find the newly released daylight panels from CoreLux very convincing—they really look like a free view of the sky, and the light in the room is like with a skylight. They were introduced earlier this month in Köln and can be viewed in the Designpost. I don’t know where they can be bought. I would certainly have installed those things in 2–3 places instead of recessed ceiling lights if they had already existed last year.

Oh, by the way: I would skip entrance fixtures. Sooner or later, the desire for more coziness comes through pendant lights or similar, there are the mentioned surface-mounted lamps or also simple lights that hardly stand out but look a bit better.

Interesting, I wonder what new things there have been in the last few months.

I always found the LED panels to be so industrial, like the lights in open-plan offices.

Are there pictures here in the forum of cozy LED panels that don't look like industrial lights?

I always found the LED panels a bit industrial, like the lamps in an open-plan office.

You mean the large 60s etc., but there are also 20 and smaller ones.

Thanks already. I'll do it properly later with cm measurements. Could you perhaps name suitable manufacturers and lamp models? How expensive are the good lamps? These daylight lamps don't ring a bell for me.

so you would only do ceiling outlets and save yourself the 130 euros per recessed light? Which lamps would you hang?

In the hallway, you usually don't hang pendant lights.

You usually don't hang pendant lights in the hallway.

It's a question of ceiling height.