Our living room has one harsh ceiling fixture that makes the entire space feel flat. I'd like better reading light by the sofa, softer light near the shelves and enough general illumination to clean the room. Rewiring for several ceiling points would be costly, so I'm looking at floor and table lamps first. How do you plan layered lighting without buying random lamps and discovering they all produce the wrong pools of light?
Planning lighting in a room that currently has one harsh ceiling fixture
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I’d start with lamps that solve one job each instead of trying to make one lamp do everything. A floor lamp by the sofa and a warm table lam...
I’d start with lamps that solve one job each instead of trying to make one lamp do everything. A floor lamp by the sofa and a warm table lamp by the shelves can change the room a lot.
And watch bulb temperature before you buy a bunch of fixtures. I’ve seen people blame the lamp when the real problem was harsh bulbs everywhere.
That’s true, but I think placement matters just as much. A nice lamp in the wrong corner still leaves a weird dark patch where you actually...