Browse Forums Lighting + Lighting Design 1 May 16, 2007 2:43 pm Hi, I'm currently in the process of having a home built, and in our informal living room we have a rahter high raked ceiling. The ceiling is over 4 metres high at it's peak and around 3 metres at its lowest point.
How can I best light this room? Does anyone have any suggestions on what sort of light fitting would look nice here, and sufficiently light up the room. It's probably worth mentioning that this part of the house contians the informal living room as well as the kitchen and the combined space is around 10 metres by 6 metres - so it's a rather large space that needs to be lit up. We really love the look of halogen down lights, but obviously with such a high ceiling, it's just not practical. I'm not particularly keen on risking life and limb to change a light bulb. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks. Re: Advice needed for lighting up a room with a raked ceiling 2May 16, 2007 2:56 pm It really depends upon the style of your decor and your tastes.
With the height of the ceiling, what about some tasteful pendant lights? There are heaps of different styles and you could choose what you like. You could fit compact fluoro bulbs to them. Or if you like the halogen downlights, there are some that fit onto a cable system at an accessible height, and have a more contemporary look. Ash. Re: Advice needed for lighting up a room with a raked ceiling 3May 16, 2007 3:47 pm Hey Markos,
My place has 4 metre high raked to roof cathederal ceilings, and yes it's a long way up that ladder. Currently I still have yummy 70 series lights, and did have a 3 foot fluro in the kitchen. Even nicer. I've had the fluro replaced with a gang of 3 x 240 volts halogens mounted under the ceiling on a 2 foot bar in the kitchen which works well. The bar is midway down the roof line, and I can angle them left, right and down to get the effect I want. If effectivly covers benches, fridge etc and an area about 7 x 4 metres. In the other areas all one big room, there are 2 other triple pendant lights that are the old 70's u turn style, and while dated they spread the light OK. I have exposed oregon beams so I like the texture look etc. As replacements, I'm going to trial some LED lights facing up to the ceiling from the original locations, as well as just some floor standing lights that shoot straight up to give a soft spread effect, and maybe some others with up and down shooting beams. My place also has some existing wall mounted lights (like bedlights) which are 2.5 metres up the wall and they are effective at being pointed down or up to acheive the desired lighting, highlight a painting etc and provide some direction light below them. They will all be repalced eventually to update the style, but they are effective re direction etc. Suggestions. Grab a desktop lamp (compact fluro, LED and halogen) and walk around and see how it looks, then that will give you some ideas on how it will look. Personally I think far to many people floodlight their houses to death with halogens and it then feels like a prison camp. So then they dim them, and the light is too far away to be usable. Have a play, and instead of just looking for directional lighting, think about, non directional reflective light that that is not in your eyes etc. Also the single Powerpoint lights can be turned on and off individually which also saves electricity. My thoughts Steve Hi All, I engaged a tradie to install concrete retaining wall 600-800mm high over 32 meters in Victoria. Sleepers are 200*75*2000 mm installed over 17 steel posts. I… 0 6882 Building Standards; Getting It Right! Don't think they are designed for double brick. WA has a particular way of building and unfortunately that's the way a large amount of sills are finished. 3 6996 Building Standards; Getting It Right! 1. optional, you can but normally just use the earth from the main switch board 2. should be enough but the distance determines voltage drop - sparky should work it… 1 28804 |