Tuesday, April 14, 2015

1st Floor Lighting

In this post you'll find a floor plan from RH's website that I have customized.  The "included" plan is from my memory and may not be a representation of what lighting is included in your area or in the future.  The "final" plan is the lighting we opted to have installed.




INCLUDED

The included lighting was better than we expected, but did not live up to what we desired.  

Five total recessed lights in the kitchen plus three pendants over the island.
A recessed light in what is considered the "dinette"
A hanging light in the dining room
Three recessed in the foyer
One recessed in the powder room hall
Two recessed in the stairwell to 2nd floor
Two recessed in stairwell to basement
Vanity light and fan in powder room
Two ceiling lights in the garage
A ceiling light in the mudroom
Switched outlets in the morning room, great room and study
Three standard lights are included on the front of the home
One wall light near the back door
Another wall light near the rear garage door that is standard when opting for having that door installed





FINAL

We moved the dining room hanging light into the morning room.
We moved one of the kitchen recessed into line with the "dinette" recessed
We added four recessed in the great room
Added a ceiling light in the study
Added four recessed in the dining room (that we plan to use as a library)
Added a floodlight above the garage (yellow)
Added three floodlights on the back of the home (yellow)




Hopefully these are useful in planning out your lighting.  We like to have the ability to get rooms fairly bright.  I'll add the second floor when I have time to lay it out  We spent around $5000 on additional lighting around the house, but did so mostly to meet a set of circumstances that allowed us to add additional lighting after we close using the runs done before drywall.  Since the first floor will not be easily accessible (like the unfinished basement or using the attic above the second floor) we added everything we wanted (except for some closet/pantry lighting and under/over cabinet lights we will add later).

1 comment:

  1. My kind of people! Add the light please! There's nothing like rooms being too dark. I wish I went with more lighting than I did. But you live and you learn. :)

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