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Light Placement for off-center Cathedral Ceiling

6 years ago

Our master bedroom has a cathedral ceilling with a single ceiling fan fixture in the center. The amount of ambient light in the room when needing to actually get ready in the morning is pathetic. We absolutely need a ceiling fan, but we're concerned that replacing it with a brighter fixture would just make harsher shadows rather than improving the light in the room.

Looking around, it seems that most rooms with this type of ceiling will have some recessed lights a few feet in from the edges of the ceiling on both sides. We would like to do this (though with perhaps surface-mounted lights that can connect to a standard junction box that can be properly sealed), but the peak of the ceiling is off-center and we're not sure where to place the lights on the high side of the room.

Please see the included photos. The ceiling fan is roughly dead center in the ceiling for reference.

Any thoughts? We're stuck.

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PRO
Brilliant! Lighting & Design
6 years ago
Hi tsandhol,

Without room dimensions it's difficult to give you precise locations but it appears the offset ridge might be about 3+ feet from the low wall (with single open door). If that is close to correct, consider using something like the Lithonia Wafer LED approximately 2 to 2.5 feet out from each corner.
tsandhol
Original Author
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
Sorry about the lack of dimensions. 2 to 2.5 feet out would put it right about at the smoke detector. We were thinking about three lights across on each side. Visually, would that be too much?

Thanks for the feedback!
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PRO
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6 years ago
Hi again,

Sounds like going for 3 feet out from each corner could work then.

I suggest just 2 since a 3rd fixture might be too close to the fan blades and create a strobe effect which would be bad.

Good luck!

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