Recessed Lighting Made Easy! How to Layout

Want to get the perfect recessed lighting layout for your home? In this video, we’ll show you how to plan and space recessed lights for optimal brightness and even illumination. Whether you're upgrading your kitchen, living room, or basement, getting the right recessed lighting spacing is key to avoiding dark spots and glare.

💡 Topics Covered:
✔️ How to space recessed lights properly
✔️ The best recessed lighting layout for different rooms
✔️ How to calculate recessed light placement
✔️ Tips for installing LED recessed lights
✔️ Common mistakes to avoid when laying out recessed lighting

✨ Whether you're a DIYer or hiring an electrician, these recessed lighting tips will help you achieve the best lighting design!

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[karateflix]

Awesome video. I was sitting in my living room thinking about how horrible my lighting is and searched for a lighting video. I was lost as first. I feel much more comfortable now.

[MLFranklin]

This is very helpful. And I'm sure you know, the manufacturers of these lights have recommendations and even software to help guide you, but they basically want to put a pot every three feet all over your ceiling. My living room doesn't really need 30 recessed cans. It's crazy. You bring sanity to the discussion. Thank you!

[samymorocco]

👍👍👍👍❤❤ good experience, thank you so much 👍

[emmettroehr]

Thank you so much for doing this video - between this and the blog I am so much more confident about lighting placement!

[slartibortfast]

This was really insightful. Thank you for a tutorial that shows a little more thought process rather than cookie cutter aesthetics.

[leopoldomolina]

Appreciated tip that about the couch edge. I also use the criteria of the corner and distribute the lights equidistantly. Usually I use 4 lights for bedrooms (not giant bedrooms). If the bedroom is not totally square (very likely) then I try to choose a measure from the corner that give a wider visual of the room and not to look small. I measure the smallest side and divide it by 4. That will be the measure from the corner to each light.

[annabodhi]

Appreciate the video and your reasoning behind even vs uneven spacing. Thanks so much for the upload.


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[tricia]

Great video, and your link was especially helpful too. Thank you!

[bigglock]

so to get the center light measurement you would measure from corner light to corner light and its the center of that measurement ?

[goodplacereviewer]

The way I do it is
A light plus a metre divided into the area
Say it ends up being 5 point Something
I'll add 5 lights plus the 4 meteres of spacing in between the lights
then you'll have the one metre spare plus the remainder value left I'll use that measurement for the first and last space
That's if you want to keep it a metre exactly between the lights

If your not too fussed about keeping it a metre but want it kept uniformal

With 5 lights you'll have 6 spaces
So you'll want the
first space to be half the value (1) 1 value
Second two half (3) 2 values
3rd two halfs (5) 2 values
4th two halfs (7) 2 values
5 two halfs (9) 2 values
6 a half (10) 1 value

If you have 5 lights add them up take them away from the measurement from wall to wall then divide by ten for your spaces

So you'll have
Half light /half half/ light half half light/ half half light/half half light/half

How ever many lights you have divide by double the amount if its 8 lights divide by sixteen so you'll have 1+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+1 ( the crosses are the lights and the values are your spacings
How ever many lights you have there is always one more space
3 lights had space light space light space light space .... so 4 spaces in total
But you want the sides to be half values for light spread so you divided by six
1 2 4 6
<○><○><○> ( the arrows is the space showing the how the light spans that's why you want a half value then two halfs , two halfs then a half value

Half a space light half a space half a space light half a space half a space light half a space



Hope you can make sense of this and helps with spacing out lights

[yagieperitam]

i have a 6 meter x 4 meter kitchen and i would like to install slim line resessed lights my light size is 145mm x 145mm
how many lights should i put in my kitchen and what distance should i have

[jeffabbott]

I have a peninsula very similar to what you’ve got there. One 4” slim led should do the job in the center of that shouldn’t it? 8ft ceiling.

[moonrunnerlife]

3 ft is standard for that reason alone. Looks very nice!

[mamag]

When putting in the kitchen lights, even though the spacing is not the same between all lights do you have them on the same grid line?

[bill.Latham]

Good video, I have a older home my living room is 280 sq./ft. ceiling is 8 feet high. How many recess 6" LED lights would you recommend for a living room that size? Thank You

[patrickarchuleta]

I have a electrical problem I have power coming spliced and going to switch what about white wire here it is spliced all neutrals can I use the white as ablack going to light I have outlets spliced for 🔋

[westTexasPine]

If I’m doing a square room with a fan in the center I use a 36”x 36” square cardboard and mark it off the corner and use wafer lights in case of studs

[tonycervantes]

I have a room 13x11 8 ft hight i try to add led lights on the corners can u help me with of measurements sr thanks

[patrickbesong]

what would you suggest for slanted ceilings? we have a gambrel roof house where the bedrooms upstairs have knee walls and slanted ceilings. there is a flat area at the top about 4 or 5' wide. should we just install a row of 3 maybe in the flat part in the middle or would it look better to install them on the sloped walls pointing more at an angle? ceiling is 8' high in the middle. we're renovating and don't have drywall up there yet.

[kevinhernandez]

How do you space 4 lights in a row would you divide the the distance between the corner lights center by 4 since its 4 lights ?