Browse Forums What's New 1 Mar 28, 2011 5:26 pm Hi, we have a lengthy discussion with my wife for ceiling fans. We are both into the enrgy saving ideas, however this is something that we are not agreeing for indoors. For outdoors it is almost certain that we will put them. I would like to have ceiling fans since as i am reading they are great at saving energy... However my wife feels that they will destroy the atmosphere of the house and that they wont fit into the minimalistic design that we are trying to implement. Any other women in here find ceiling fans as not so nice? Re: Indoor Ceiling Fans 2Mar 28, 2011 5:52 pm We put them in the bedrooms and study and one in the rumpus. I didn't want to at first for similar reasons and didn't even put one in the master until I went in there the other day and it was HOT. Living in a house that currently has a black hole that just sucks electricity it has made me more conscious about energy consumption and I have made the changes to our house like energy efficient down lights and ceiling fans. I think they will look fine given we will buy decent ones and not flimsy crappy ones. Jump onto any online realestate website and search 1mil+ houses and you will be surprised how many of these gorgeous houses have ceiling fans! Re: Indoor Ceiling Fans 3Mar 28, 2011 6:22 pm Beacon lighting currently have heaps of energy saving fans, and sometimes fans can be just as functional as airconditions on humid days. You can get a brand called 'fanaway' that when you are not using them, the blades fold back into the light. Do a search on Fanaway on here and there are a couple of threads. They are $$ but will more than likely give you the affect you want The road to success is always under construction House completed April 2011 - slowly making it a home... Re: Indoor Ceiling Fans 4Mar 28, 2011 6:47 pm OK great thanks! So is no only my Mrs. that has this issue then If you have a room that is about 6m wide and 9m length (i dont know exactly yet i am just trying to understand through an example), and at one corner is the kitchen and at the other a casual living room. If you put a fan at the kitchen area, would it be effective again for all of the room? Re: Indoor Ceiling Fans 5May 10, 2011 12:13 pm I'd use 2 in an area that big. As far as energy efficiency. Old ceiling fans use bugger all power anyway. I'm not sure there is a significant saving in "efficient" versions. Do you have high ceilings at all? I found in our old place that with 8 foot ceilings they would have been very intrusive in living areas, but we had them in all bedrooms and the study. Our new house has 9 foot ceilings and they will be going in all rooms except bathrooms, laundry, garage and halls. We will also be getting ducted Air con but ceiling fans can make a huge difference when the correct size is chosen and they are in the right area. Re: Indoor Ceiling Fans 6Aug 06, 2011 10:49 pm I have 1 in every bedroom, 3 in an L shaped living area and one in the lounge room. To minimise the 'clutter' on the ceiling I chose fans with lights incorporated. I chose nice white fans and have a white ceiking, so as not to draw your eye to them Re: Indoor Ceiling Fans 7Aug 07, 2011 10:11 am we have a large kitchen, family,dining games room area. There are 2 in this area. Like others have said we went for a design that incorporated the light fitting as well so there there was less "things" on the ceiling to clutter it. However as I wasn't keen on white blades we went for wenge(black brown) blades which match in with are dark kitchen tiling and cupboards and with some of our dark furniture. IN bedrooms we went with the same idea of lights within the fans but went for white blades. Re: Indoor Ceiling Fans 8Aug 14, 2011 4:19 pm We are also having a ceiling fan discussion and did look at the ones that fold away when not in use. We went to Beacon Lighting to have a look at them, and found that the actual light is quite big and I felt a little too bulky. Good luck Re: Indoor Ceiling Fans 9Aug 17, 2011 1:24 pm Hi teamtoscano, we did the same but were all set to go with the fanaways until I found these; http://www.lightingillusions.com.au/sho ... ades-light Much more like a low oyster light and much less bulky than the others. SK Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=34120 Handover 23 Dec 11 Squatting 21 Dec 11 Fixed 12 Oct 11 Plastered 31 Aug 2011 Framed 7 June 2011 Site Start 7 Feb 2011 Land Titled 18 Jan 2010 Land Deposit 25 Jun 2009 Re: Indoor Ceiling Fans 10Aug 17, 2011 3:42 pm ceiling fans are great, i grew up with them, would have them, except the OH (male) hates them. You can buy the ones that tuck their blades away. They are nice, mum has one in her main room. It does look a bit like a bulky oyster as teamtoscano says, but after a while, its not too bad. I think it would be fine on a high ceiling. For her bedroom, she has one with clear arms/fins (what do you call them), it doesnt ruin the look of the room, because you see right through it. The hanging down part is like an icecream cone, pretty. ceiling fans always look better in houses with higher celings, compared to older houses like mum mum's with the standard ceiling. only thing is, fans do require more cleaning. Re: Indoor Ceiling Fans 11Jan 03, 2014 5:56 pm there are actually considerable savings to be had with new more efficent fans, you'll find quite a few old fans have quite high wattage levels (we have one that's rated to 160w!), yet the latest design (albeit, expensive) fans at their lowest speed offer 4w, pretty good considering aircon is in the thousands of watt's per hour. http://aeratron.org/e503/ HOWEVER. your best bet to keep the place cooler is not just a case of fans (fans are the last part of the equasion) you need to look at your building design/colours/cladding/insulation, I'm sure you could drop the temp drastically just by painting a few things white for example. Slooowwwwly getting a Manhatten 35 in Middleton Grange Re: Indoor Ceiling Fans 12Jan 03, 2014 8:07 pm MR2 there are actually considerable savings to be had with new more efficent fans, you'll find quite a few old fans have quite high wattage levels (we have one that's rated to 160w!), yet the latest design (albeit, expensive) fans at their lowest speed offer 4w, pretty good considering aircon is in the thousands of watt's per hour. http://aeratron.org/e503/ HOWEVER. your best bet to keep the place cooler is not just a case of fans (fans are the last part of the equasion) you need to look at your building design/colours/cladding/insulation, I'm sure you could drop the temp drastically just by painting a few things white for example. Why all the old threads MR2? Some things are worth waiting for. Re: Indoor Ceiling Fans 13Jan 04, 2014 9:33 am well, Ceiling fans is one of those things they've recent made big changes to (or I think recently) with those new fancy fans they seem to be stating that they are moving far higher amounts of air and using far less power, seemed worthy to update the old threads rather than creating new? Slooowwwwly getting a Manhatten 35 in Middleton Grange Re: Indoor Ceiling Fans 14Jan 11, 2014 5:55 am We put a total of 9 throughout our home. Use them all the time. With the new fans with remotes they just use your exsisting light switch wiring. I bought ours for around $150.00 from jdlighting. They are quite and all of them didnt need balancing. Re: Indoor Ceiling Fans 15Aug 02, 2015 6:35 pm sorry to revive this thread, i've decided to add ceiling fans in the bedroom and living in my house, but still tossing between with fan incorporated light or separately ? the whole house will have led downlights everywhere and tot of just adding the fan.. any advise or which is better ? i know it will still come to personal preference, but wished to 'read' or 'listen' to those who have done either options on the pros and cons.. Re: Indoor Ceiling Fans 16Aug 02, 2015 8:09 pm We are doing in-built light in fan in the smaller rooms (mainly bedrooms) because I think if you have down lights plus fan you will get visual disturbance from the fan blades rotating over the light. Hope that makes sense. In bigger rooms we will just have the fan with separate down lights Re: Indoor Ceiling Fans 17Aug 03, 2015 8:53 am http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn161/annielee8/elecrtical_zpsz9swd5he.jpg I've attached the floor plan, what do you think on the small room ? Bed 2-3 sizes are 3.4 x 3.3 - only with 2 downlights.. Master and theater are both bigger with 4 downlights ... Bjhf We are doing in-built light in fan in the smaller rooms (mainly bedrooms) because I think if you have down lights plus fan you will get visual disturbance from the fan blades rotating over the light. Hope that makes sense. In bigger rooms we will just have the fan with separate down lights Re: Indoor Ceiling Fans 18Aug 03, 2015 11:02 am To be totally honest I'm not sure how far away the lights would need to be from the fan to stop the "flashing light" effect. It might even be a total non-issue, it's just something somebody mentioned to me at one point and it has stuck in my mind. I'd say a lighting shop like Beacon would be able to tell you though, they're often really helpful over the phone too Re: Indoor Ceiling Fans 19Aug 03, 2015 12:21 pm thanks for your advise.. googled and found this article.. http://www.charlstonlights.com/blog/tips-on-planning-your-home-interior-with-led-lights Bjhf To be totally honest I'm not sure how far away the lights would need to be from the fan to stop the "flashing light" effect. It might even be a total non-issue, it's just something somebody mentioned to me at one point and it has stuck in my mind. I'd say a lighting shop like Beacon would be able to tell you though, they're often really helpful over the phone too Re: Indoor Ceiling Fans 20Aug 03, 2015 12:43 pm The strobing effect of the lights through the fan depends on the beam angle of the downlights. Narrow angle ones can be reasonably close to the arc, but wide angle needs to be further away. For a 90 degree beam, theoretically, you need to offset from the arc by the same distance as the fan hangs from the ceiling (normally 300mm), but I'd allow a bit more. The problem with the small bedrooms in the plan is that with narrow angle lights, two corners of the room will be fairly dark, and with wide angle lights you'll get strobing. So I'd be inclined to use fans with integrated lights in those rooms, or go to four lower powered downlights. I'd also consider moving the fan in the living space to the left or right, so it's in the middle of a group of four lights, for maximum separation, but that could affect the desired air patterns and visual symmetry. 0 4764 thanks. the above one is white Mat tiles and have gripness so going for this Mat tiles for both indoor and outdoor. Beaumont told it can be used in both indoor and… 2 1712 How do you remove one of these ceiling air con vents? 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