Florescent light

Risteard

Le_Kirk wrote: »

Should have mentioned I also have down lighters under the cabinets. They are high/low/medium* actually 12 volts.

*Strike out which does not apply - that's so we can start another debate about the voltage that is consider low in UK!!

Extra-low voltage, specifically SELV.

Le_Kirk

Risteard wrote: »

Extra-low voltage, specifically SELV.

Gotcha!!!!

Zola.

Head_The_Ball wrote: »

I would advise against that.

You want a good spread of light in a kitchen.

A single central light can work in a living room or dining room as you spend most of your time sitting near the edge facing into the middle.

In a kitchen, you spend most of your time facing the walls with your back to a central light. Unless you have multiple sources of light you will find that you are blocking light to the worktop, sink, hob, etc as you stand between them and the light source.

Ideally a kitchen should have multiple lights in the ceiling plus downlighters under the high level wall units.

You can achieve multiple lights in a ceiling from one fitting using the type of light that has long extended arms.

Here is one example.

Any DIY shed or lighting supplier will have plenty of that style of light.

Thats precisely what I am after good sir! Only LEDs!

Head_The_Ball

Zola. wrote: »

Thats precisely what I am after good sir! Only LEDs!

That was just the first picture I found on google. There are dozens if not hundreds of multi bulb ceiling lights available.

We have a 6 bulb fitting in our kitchen. It came from Homebase, not a store we usually buy from, but in this case it had exactly what we wanted at a very good price. Homebase and B&Q are good places to browse for these style of lights as they have a large range.

That light fitting in my link, although supplied with halogen GU10s, could presumably be fitted with GU10 LED bulbs which are also widely available.

Zola.

Just an update on this.

Got a 4 light LED thing from Screwfix.... £30 with lights, absolute bargain. The tube is gone!!

Really brightened the room and made a big difference.

Just have to polyfill the ceiling a bit more now, sand and paint etc.

Cheers for the help everybody