Planning recessed spotlights for hallway and wardrobe - tips

Which manufacturers of tunable white LED panels exist that can meet this range? Or how can you recognize this in your own research?

An indication that the luminaires can do this is the possible adjustment of the light color (e.g. from 2700 - 5000K) and the light intensity (dimmability, maximum value given in lux, lumens as a value for the amount of light also acceptable as a reference for flat panels). What you still do not know then is whether you like the light, how true the colors are reproduced, and whether you have PWM flickering at dimmed light.
It regularly becomes expensive when light color adjustment and high color rendering index are supposed to come together.

Do you think I can manage with only 3 ceiling outlets in the hallway + wardrobe? @ypg You suggested that, right? Where would you place the outlets?

That depends on what you want there now. I am confused by the other people's tips, whether that is exactly what you want.

As I already said: I prefer a nice ambient light in the corner of the hallway that greets me in autumn/winter and rarely turn on the ceiling light. And it can be a puristic and inexpensive design that illuminates my 2 x 2 meters in front of the mirror. Honestly, I don’t care that on one side it doesn’t lie perfectly flush with the ceiling by 1 mm (Philips ). If you want to light the hallway like a dentist’s office, then the other’s advice is probably right. You can’t argue about taste and needs. I like the panel lights but would only hang them on the wall, not on a ceiling, because I see no benefit in lighting half a square meter or more above me, even if I could dim them. The color plays were totally trendy when I built in 2013. I wanted that too, but didn’t get it... luckily, otherwise my interior concept would be illuminated sometimes in pink, sometimes in green. And I don’t need daylight for the few minutes that the ceiling light is on: either my wardrobe fits already at purchase or it doesn’t.

If it were my hallway: right in the middle of the imagined "square" a good illumination from one source, another source (possibly with two lamps) separately switchable, in the middle of the main hallway (the dashed line is not the middle, and since I made this mistake myself in the bathroom and oriented myself by the door, I like the tip of the room’s center! When marking the cross, I realize: the unconsidered sight line from the stairs to the door and from the kitchen door to the stairs would annoy me immensely. The red dot shows the hallway corner you look at and thus is emphasized. Therefore, I would position the kitchen door opposite the stairs — I believe that would even be optically in the middle of the hallway wall, which fits quite well here. But the main aspect for me would be the sight line. Moving on to the light: there will be light in the storage room, which I would switch with a motion sensor (we don’t have that yet, but it annoys me). Opposite the storage room door, a chest of drawers could stand (keys, sunglasses, etc.). I would put a nice table lamp on it that turns on with a timer switch (socket!!!) in the dark season.

Thank you for the post. I get a lot out of it for myself. The sightline also bothers me a bit. But it's not something I overlooked. It’s because of the wardrobe and kitchen shape. When you come through the kitchen door, you’re supposed to be directly in the corridor between the kitchen units. Running into a kitchen side panel would be even worse. This shape of the kitchen has to be like this for me. And the door into the kitchen from the hallway has to be for my husband.

Where is the transformer hidden in the flat LED panels? Have they become so slim that they can be hidden between the ceiling and the panel, or do you need a suspended ceiling to store the transformer there?

The LED Panel Velora from Paulmann doesn't have an external driver somewhere, does it?

The drivers are external. Either space is provided in the ceiling through housing boxes or a suspended ceiling, or drivers are in the HAR. There are many ways.

Don't you think that the driver circled in red also has space above the panel (Paulmann Velora) on the ceiling itself?


Do you really have to put a box into the concrete ceiling?

If you want it flush, then yes. With a distance of the thickness of the driver +x, it also works without.

Would you place the spotlights in the canopy as shown in the picture, or would you position the outer spotlights further to the left and right? The canopy is 2.99m long. Or would you only use 2 spotlights there?