Planning the execution plan for ceiling spotlights

Hello, I am new here and have a question. We are currently planning to build a house. The architect now wants to know for the execution plan where the ceiling spots should go. Because it is a concrete ceiling, the holes for the spots are made in advance. I have now prepared a location sketch for the spots and would appreciate your feedback. No light will be in the hallway because the area is an open space and a pendant lamp will be placed there again to see if everything fits. Thank you

Old man... if it weren't so even, I'd say someone held a machine gun to it.

Without going into individual details... do you really want it like that?? How much does a ceiling box cost for you... the range is quite large and they also need to be equipped.

My recommendation is to think about where you actually want spots. I would prefer to work with other lighting elements in the living and dining area.

If you really want to approach it that way and want an opinion. Furnish the plan. Where does the sofa go, where does the dining table go?

Just as a food for thought, a little experience report on such a grid arrangement:

We have practiced it like that too. What works in hallways/stair landings or in the entrance area annoys me more and more in the open space (cooking/living/eating).

The light is evenly distributed and bright enough everywhere, but it just looks crappy. I would rather have more ceiling surface without constantly seeing something else somewhere, be it the spots, the smoke detectors, or the presence detectors of the bussystem.

In the next house, I won’t have that anymore; I’d much rather spend the money on a lighting planner who truly deserves the name. Better to set accents punctually than to have another stadium lighting. For example, my sister illuminates the exposed concrete stairwell wall with 3 spotlights, or in a corner of the living room there is a single spotlight installed that lights a sculpture below. Something like that creates a cozy atmosphere.

My aversion goes so far that I am even considering installing some kind of boxed-in ceiling with a light cove in the living room someday.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m really grateful for it in traffic areas or even in the shower bathroom, but in real living spaces I would never do it like that again. Not even in the bathroom with the bathtub.

Light planning does not mean placing spots everywhere. It's about light! It can be direct or indirect. As general lighting or for accentuation or coziness. From spots to pendant lamps, wall lamps, floor lamps, table lamps, to LED strips.

Start from scratch and plan the light. Not holes in the ceiling.

The question of costs has already been raised. It will be quite uncomfortable, as planned currently.

We have just "completed" the lighting plan together with a lighting designer. At first, we also thought about installing spotlights, but by now I find it rather overdone. There are many beautiful surface-mounted and pendant lamps as well as options for direct and indirect lighting.

If you want to stick with the spotlights, I would at least recommend arranging the rooms (preferably cutting out the furniture and placing it on the floor plan) and checking whether the spots are really necessary in that quantity and especially if they are placed correctly. If you want to keep them, you should then consider switching the spotlights in the rooms separately (living room, dining room, kitchen) and using dimmers.

Otherwise, I would rather recommend using fewer but well-placed surface-mounted lamps and working in parallel with ceiling floodlights, floor or wall lamps. That may (but doesn’t have to) be not only cheaper in the end, but also more individual and nicer.

But if you are looking for help, first arrange everything. Everything else will follow from that.

would you like to share your result, as a positive example, sometime? :)