spartansix
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About to start ordering fixtures and doing the rough-in for the lighting on my 35x27 3-bay garage.
The ceilings are only 9', so I'm trying to maximize usable height and aesthetics with 1'x4' LED panels in recessed drywall mounts. Each fixture is ~4400 lumens and I'm trying for ~90 foot candles.
My original layout is the first floor plan below, but I saw two issues:
1. I can't recess lights in the left-right direction because of the floor joists
2. Some of the lights are awfully close to the walls
So I put the space into visual interior and overlaid their suggestion on my plan. Obviously some of these lights would need to move because of walls etc. but is this a better approach? I don't like that the garage doors would block many of the lights when open and that the lights are over the cars rather than over the space between them.
What do you light gurus think? Should I focus on lighting the space evenly, or on lighting the areas where I am going to be working?
The ceilings are only 9', so I'm trying to maximize usable height and aesthetics with 1'x4' LED panels in recessed drywall mounts. Each fixture is ~4400 lumens and I'm trying for ~90 foot candles.
My original layout is the first floor plan below, but I saw two issues:
1. I can't recess lights in the left-right direction because of the floor joists
2. Some of the lights are awfully close to the walls
So I put the space into visual interior and overlaid their suggestion on my plan. Obviously some of these lights would need to move because of walls etc. but is this a better approach? I don't like that the garage doors would block many of the lights when open and that the lights are over the cars rather than over the space between them.
What do you light gurus think? Should I focus on lighting the space evenly, or on lighting the areas where I am going to be working?
