One of my design hang-ups is sunken ceiling spots. Personally, I would never fit them, although I can understand having them in a kitchen or bathroom. But this is just… something. No options for anything but searing white light. I can’t even see any lamps in the bedroom.
the clouds are exactly the same in all the photos and it’s very jarring to me
How did I not notice this!?
Obviously someone with a cursory knowledge of photo editing works at the estate agent as they also superimpose their logo across every screen.
And 5000k lights too. I fucking hate “daylight” lights like that in the house. 2700k gang here.
Yep! All the ones I can change the temperature of are 2700k. If I need cooler task lighting, it’s a lamp or under the counter, but not on all the time.
Oh god. One electrical fail and you spend whole day changing lights xD
How often does that happen and where do you live? I experienced a bunch of outages but never was there damage to any electronics.
Whole place is like a car showroom, but brighter.
Do people who have their homes like this have cataracts or something? I dunno how else one could hack spending more than 30 uncomfortable minutes in this kind of glare.
Ceiling spots are the devil’s work, no matter the brightness. So ugly, so impractical, so expensive, intense hassle to get rid of. Urgh.
It’s the stuff of nightmares for anyone with sensitivity issues. So much brightness and so much noise bouncing off every hard surface.
With you 100% on ceiling spots being evil.
You know, I only just realised they have office style blinds, the type with the white plastic string of beads, in every room.
Forgot to mention the ice rink of a floor in most of the rooms.
Lethal if a drop of water gets on that.
I don’t know, I quite like it.
You don’t have dimmable lights in the UK?
Personally, I think they’re among the best options. Table lamps are fine, but take up table space and then you still have to deal with cords all over your floor, taking up outlets.
Ceiling fixtures are a style commitment, and stupidly expensive to replace.
Sunken lights with dimmable lights are just about perfect for a clean look and controllable ambiance. If you put in RGB smart bulbs, even better, but that’s a major investment on this scale and adds significantly to figuring out good controls. The best compromise I’ve seen are dimmable bulbs with a second control that’s simply cool <-> warm; the wall switch is then just like a normal dimmable, but with 2 sliders: one for brightness, the other for warmth. You can simulate a decent sunset lighting by maxing the warmth and lowering the brightness.
