Kitchen Lights

[hc4361]

I replaced my very old fashioned fluorescent strip light with spot lights but they are driving me mad - I always seem to be in my own shadow.

Can anyone suggest an alternative?

[BRIGHT SPARK]

If they are spots on a track they will cause shadows.The light you took down was the best...but not pretty.You could look at downlights fixed in the ceiling.

[Iggle Piggle]

We use slightly brighter bulbs and bounce the light off the white ceiling and walls, this works for us.

[mrpeter]

I would suggest that not enough attention was paid to where they have been sited and to where the work in the kitchen is done. Obviousy to light the area in front of you at the work surface the light has to come from above and infront. More than one set of lights may be required.

[ivor4781]

nothing old fashioned about a florescent strip light. people still buy them and use a lot less power than halogen lights
we have a 40watt tube in out kitchen .our neighbours have 4 halogen bulbs at 50 watts each and its no brighter than ours,
work it out

[theshedman]

We replaced our strip light with these spot lights a number of years ago as they seemed to be the fashion at the time. After many adjustments to the spots to stop from being in the shade in certain areas of the kitchen and changing many blown bulbs we have now gone back to the strip light. This gives better light in all areas and will probably be cheaper to run.

[pusskin]

We would never change our strip light,even though we've thought its a bit out of the ark. It gives good light all round, so no problem.
we even have a strip light in our tent. Brilliant.

[hc4361]

Thanks all. Back to the striplight for me

[pusskin]

Strip light with a diffuser all round hc. These lights last for yonks.

[Baldric]

If they're spotlights on a track that's what happens, spotlights fitted flush with/in the ceiling's the way to go!

[hc4361]

Aren't flushed spots/downlights a faff to install?

[The Builder]

Flush downlights preferably fitted with LED lamps are very good for kitchens. You just need enough of them to avoid shadows.

They are a bit of a faff to fit. Depending on how many, and where they're sited, The usual thing is to work from the kitchen rather than go upstairs and dig up a load of floorboards. If access is possible from above, then it's simpler. If not, then there will be a few access holes in the kitchen ceiling to get the cabling through the ceiling joists.