One of my design hang-ups is sunken ceiling spots. Personally, I would never fit them, although I can understand having them in a kitchen or bathroom. But this is just… something. No options for anything but searing white light. I can’t even see any lamps in the bedroom.
I don’t know, I quite like it.
Even with dimming, I think you’d have to disconnect half those lights. Can we discuss the terrible kitchen though? The stovetop looks to be poorly lit (ironically), almost all the usable counter space is the island, the fridge is way to far away, the grey cabinets and black countertops really clash with the white floor. They spent a ton of money on that stone and it looks awful.
I use Hue tuneable or RGB bulbs recessed in the ceiling and they’re great. With their switches and a little setup it will turn on the lights to the appropriate brightness and color temperature depending on the time of day. They dim to nearly nothing up to daylight. You just need good bulbs or drivers.
Yep my house came with recessed and first thing I did was replace them all with hue (thankfully I had access to a good deal on them, I was already in the ecosystem since before there were really any alternatives, these days I’d get something else if starting from scratch because they take the piss with pricing if you don’t get discounts). I’d still prefer a different lighting scheme but combined with a few other lamps and with the various colour scenes they’re fine, and you can’t complain about the space saved physically and visually by needing fewer lamps.
This house has a crazy amount though, mine has like 15/20 total and I only RGB’d the living room and bathroom.
I bet these are the ones that have adjustable color temps in the control box, but you’d spend your first month of living there just climbing ladders to swap them over.
And there are way too many ceiling lights in this house. It looks like a hospital waiting room.
Need new corneas and retinas after just looking at the pictures.
Only thing I won was a headache.
Whole place is like a car showroom, but brighter.
Do people who have their homes like this have cataracts or something? I dunno how else one could hack spending more than 30 uncomfortable minutes in this kind of glare.
Ceiling spots are the devil’s work, no matter the brightness. So ugly, so impractical, so expensive, intense hassle to get rid of. Urgh.
Oh god. One electrical fail and you spend whole day changing lights xD
They’re bad, but what about the ice rink floor tiles and sharp cornered worktops and furniture. One rainy day and you’re practically in a Final Destination set up!
THERE ARE FOUR HUNDRED LIGHTS!
And 5000k lights too. I fucking hate “daylight” likes like that in the house. 2700k gang here.
Yep! All the ones I can change the temperature of are 2700k. If I need cooler task lighting, it’s a lamp or under the counter, but not on all the time.
You don’t have dimmable lights in the UK?
Personally, I think they’re among the best options. Table lamps are fine, but take up table space and then you still have to deal with cords all over your floor, taking up outlets.
Ceiling fixtures are a style commitment, and stupidly expensive to replace.
Sunken lights with dimmable lights are just about perfect for a clean look and controllable ambiance. If you put in RGB smart bulbs, even better, but that’s a major investment on this scale and adds significantly to figuring out good controls. The best compromise I’ve seen are dimmable bulbs with a second control that’s simply cool <-> warm; the wall switch is then just like a normal dimmable, but with 2 sliders: one for brightness, the other for warmth. You can simulate a decent sunset lighting by maxing the warmth and lowering the brightness.
I feel like I’ve been explaining this problem to the people around me for 400 years.
So . . tired.
Bought my place from a family of Hindu fixer-uppers. The house ticked almost all the boxes for us, so totally no regrets (after spending a lot on redoing things,but that is another matter).
There still is one quirk left that I cannot explain though. The guys built an extension, adding roughly 15sqm to the living room. That was actually one of the major selling points for us as we did not want to do such a big project on our own from day one.
BUT. They somehow thought that would be a grand idea to put 14 ceiling lights there. Almost 1 per sqm. My eyes bleed if all are on! Luckily, they split it into 2 groups, so I can use only 6 - and that is bright enough.
