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Adding ceiling lights to our home

andreawinchester
2 years ago

Our home has very little natural light and feels very dark to me. We are finally having pot lights (can lights) installed throughout the home, as there are virtually no ceiling lights in the entire place. (Exception: over dining table and bathrooms and pantry.) The lights will be slightly recessed not flat.

My question:

-- In the kitchen, there is a circa 1980s ceiling fixture that is perhaps 3 by 5 feet, flat on the ceiling plastic panels with a brown wood trim (like a window,, kind of) and inside there are two long florescent tube lights. This will be replaced with can lights also.


The electrician asked me if I would like to have the lights installed up inside the space where the previous lights were, or would I like new sheet rock installed so the ceiling is flat and the can lights are slightly recessed like all the others in the home will be. I don't know how deep the recessed area will be without the plastic panels there. Maybe 6 inches deep? Will that be ok or will it cause weird shadows?

Thanks for your responses.

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