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I'm doing a renovation and one room is oddly shaped with small dimensions. I want to avoid central lighting so shadows aren't cast but i also want to try and have relatively even lighting.

Also for the bay window nook i'd like to have lighting so that if someone put a desk there they wouldn't cast shadows on their work place by sitting there.

Can someone please help me figure out how to layout this room? I've tried putting up a paper circle mock up of the 4th row 3rd column (8x 4" lights) and it's definitely evenly lighted and near perfectly spaced but it's a little busy and no other room will be like that.

I've got 4" and 6" flat recessed lights at the moment.

Thanks!

I'm doing a renovation and one room is oddly shaped with small dimensions. I want to avoid central lighting so shadows aren't cast but i also want to try and have relatively even lighting. Also for the bay window nook i'd like to have lighting so that if someone put a desk there they wouldn't cast shadows on their work place by sitting there. Can someone please help me figure out how to layout this room? I've tried putting up a paper circle mock up of the 4th row 3rd column (8x 4" lights) and it's definitely evenly lighted and near perfectly spaced but it's a little busy and no other room will be like that. I've got 4" and 6" flat recessed lights at the moment. Thanks!

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I've actually got a light switch hooked up to outlets on each side of the walls so they could setup ambient / spot lighting if they wanted to. I don't think I'd have anymore room for any more switches.

My dad did suggest having the lights over the window be on a separate switch. I said maybe I could have those lights be on two switches where either or could turn them on, but both had to be off for them to be off. So then you could have just the window lights on. And that extra switch would be near the window.

I think that was overkill though.

But ya I was thinking they'd all turn on at once Thanks