Browse Forums Lighting + Lighting Design 1 Aug 30, 2012 9:53 pm Looking for inspiration here; I don't know what suggestions people have to make, or if there might be any examples people can point me to? Our new house was originally planned to all be downlights, probably LED ones (despite the initial cost). However, last time looked into it (May-ish I think), it wasn't possible to have decent downlights without whopping great holes in your insulation. CFL's have icky light and die too often, and LED's can't be capped (to stop heat leakage) because they don't like overheating. So, short of complex roof designs with hidden flourescent tubes or some such (eg. like aircraft interior lighting), I'm just wondering what else can be done, and which is neat/clean without "stuff" dangling down from the ceiling & collecting webs/dust. Re: Suggestions; non-dangly lighting which allows insulation 2Aug 31, 2012 5:51 am I use oyster lamps. low cost and neat. Here is a website with quite a few examples. http://lighting-store.com.au/lightshop/ ... ath=1_7_28 You should be able to get them at most lighting stores The Harder You Try - the Luckier You Get ! Web site http://www.anewhouse.com.au Informative, Amusing, and Opinionated Blog - Over 600 posts on all aspects of building a new house. Re: Suggestions; non-dangly lighting which allows insulation 6Sep 02, 2012 6:04 pm I guess downstairs there's no insulation problem so we can go with downlights, and upstairs the games-room/office/'poolroom' is the only one which might have furniture tall enough for it to be a potential problem ... shall bring it up with the style controller. Re: Suggestions; non-dangly lighting which allows insulation 7Sep 02, 2012 6:27 pm You don't need that much wall space for uplights; you also need significantly fewer of them than downlights. As an example, our bedroom has 3 along one wall, and it casts enough light for the whole room. Admittedly it's not a huge room, at only 6m x 4.5m, but for downlights, we would have needed at least 6. Re: Suggestions; non-dangly lighting which allows insulation 9Sep 04, 2012 10:26 pm We do read using just these lights; in saying that, it also depends on what uplights you have. We have 3 Artemide 120W halogen uplights that are very bright, most of ours are PL CFL uplights, and do take time to reach max intensity, but certainly enough to read by. Our favourite happens to be a custom uplight on a blade wall behind our bed using a 1.8m high intensity LED strip with heat-sink, by which we read in bed. Uses 22W, and is usually the only light we use unless we need high brightness in the periphery of the room. Re: Suggestions; non-dangly lighting which allows insulation 10Sep 14, 2012 8:08 pm Hey PHL, would you be able to put up any photos? Trying to sell the better-half on the idea, but her opinion is currently "uplights are old fashioned" ... so looking for current-looking alternatives. What? It's a lighting question, the control joint is only needed at 12m centres, a bulkhead or change of direction will suffice as a 'break' in the ceiling, just make… 8 8570 From a pure legal perspective, if you've signed the variation, it is a very high bar to have it set aside. No-one can give you legal advice on a forum, but you would need… 3 5477 Thanks. There are plenty of builders around my suburb. I'll make sure to do some door-to-door knocking, or note their building details on the temp fence. 4 4746 |