My bath has no fan & I do fine by cracking a window just a bit. Helps that I live alone & have no need to shut the door during a bath or shower. I also like having a floor fan running in the hall just outside the bath. This is really only necessary during the cold, winter months. Any other time, I just open the windows! I guess I just don't want to have to cut into the plaster & make a hole in my brick for a vent.

You can hardly tell a difference between off and on! What type of bulb is in there? Grab a higher wattage LED. The wattage rating on the fan is for incandesant and for fire risk because the high watt incandesant gets very hot. High wattage LED (equivalent) does not get near as hot.I am guessing you have a 60 watt in there and would benefit from a 100 watt equivalent LED. I recently installed recessed lights to accompany my fan/light in the living room. The bedrooms have fan/lights and the light is adequate with 100 watt LED bulbs. I would recommend both in a large room if you can as recessed tend to be spot lights and a central light fixture takes care of shadows that recessed lights miss.

If you don't have an architect to help, simply locate ceiling lights and fan so they don't overlap. If you're talking about a light mounted below the fan blades, don't worry about it--there's no problem.

Thank you Patricia. I was thinking the same thing which is why I placed the lights so close to the walls. I don't anticipate using the lights very often, and if so, probably dimmed way down, as this is an unheated room. It's basically a patio (concrete slab on grade) with a roof and un-insulated walls with single pane triple-track windows and an old storm door leading to the backyard. It's similar to a screened-in porch, so I think it will mostly be used during daylight hours as an extension of the backyard. It will not be used at all in the wintertime. The original light was a single 60 watt lightbulb inside a flush mount fixture. I was planning on replacing that with 2 ceiling fans with light kits, but the person who was previously working on our house purchased these recessed lights and threw away the packaging so now I am looking for a way to use them instead of putting them in a box and storing them. After thinking about my options, I thought that the light kits on the ceiling fans might be too bulky and the recessed lights combined with 2 fans (sans light kits) might be less visually obtrusive. The ceiling is not overly high; 8'8" on the high end and sloping down towards the windows. I believe that the recessed lights provide a 110 degree angle beam, so I was wondering if the fans would interfere with the lights if I placed them far enough away. If I don't use the lights that I have on hand, then I will need to figure out another way to get at least one light into this room.