Suggestions for Lighting in new garage

[bamava05]

Looking for experienced input on the lighting for my new construction detached garage. Garage is dried in and now starting the electrical.
The garage is 24x34 with vaulted ceilings. The ceiling height is 15 feet at the peak and slopes down toward the side walls.
I will have show cars in the garage and would like optimum lighting for detail work.
I am open to fluorescent bulb or LED lighting. Prefer LED but I am open for suggestions on both. The walls and ceiling will be finished and painted white.

Any help and suggestions is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[CJ7VFR]

Looking for experienced input on the lighting for my new construction detached garage. Garage is dried in and now starting the electrical.
The garage is 24x34 with vaulted ceilings. The ceiling height is 15 feet at the peak and slopes down toward the side walls.
I will have show cars in the garage and would like optimum lighting for detail work.
I am open to fluorescent bulb or LED lighting. Prefer LED but I am open for suggestions on both. The walls and ceiling will be finished and painted white.

Any help and suggestions is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

If you go with LED lighting, stay away from any bulbs that have a clear lens. You want to go with bulbs that have a frosted lens if you are doing detail work.

The reason being is that with a clear lens, the LED bulbs, whether 4 foot long tubes that shop lights have, or the screw in "Edison" type, the small individual LED's inside each bulb will create tiny white "dots" all over the surface of your vehicles.

This is not a real issue if you are just working on vehicles, doing maintenance, or other garage type work. But doing detail work, and having to see the surface of the vehicles more clearly and evenly, you don't want a bunch of tiny white dots showing up and making it harder to see what you are doing.

Frosted lenses, like the ones on most fluorescent shop lights, create a smoother, more even light, and will also allow you to see any imperfections in the vehicles painted surfaces as you are detailing them.

Besides good overhead light, you also want to make sure you get yourself a few stand up lights/lamps that you can move around to put the light exactly where you need it for working on the sides and bottom of the vehicles.

You can never have too much light when you are detailing a nice car!!

Jim