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Den Lighting Diagram - Thoughts?

5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago

I'm looking for feedback on my den lighting plan. The overall style here is midcentury ranch or MCM. Details are, recessed lighting (Cree 4" / 790- lumen) are the circles for a total of 9. They would be on a dimmer and at full brightness the room (488 sq ft) would get 14.5 lumen/sq ft from those alone. Spacing is 6' and in most places the maximum distance to a wall would be about 5'. The circle+triangle I see being some kind of multi-globe chandelier type light (15 globe Modo 4 Sided Chandelier @ 6,750 lumen?). The square is just some sort of two bulb spotlight for the fireplace. I put it on the actual beam but that's probably a bad place for it.

Furniture layout is on the TBD side but there will be at least a couple of lamps. My thoughts were that I'd normally use recessed + chandelier light at less than full brightness in the evening because I keep things a little dim, but there would be plenty of room left over to illuminate the place on game nights for example.

Other details that may or may not matter, entrance to the foyer (room at bottom of drawing) is on the left of the aquarium and the den is about 20" lower. The aquarium is 72" wide and will be installed in the wall between rooms + in built-in shelving on the den side. There will be trapezoidal clerestory windows between these two rooms so some amount of light will carry over between them. Ceiling will most likely be 5" t&g paneling with a natural finish, beams will be darker.

I appreciate the help!


EDIT: Whoops, sconces aren't on the drawing! There are a couple on the top and right walls to the left/right of some windows and doors + one on the outside wall