Ceiling island advice...

[davek0974]

Hi all,

looking to fit a ceiling island in dining/living rooms, both have 7'6" ceilings.

I was hoping to be able to fit L.E.D's around the edge for ambient light and spots in the island for more light when needed, all controlled with Philips Hue hub and Alexa etc.

Bit like this...


Would you feel 7'6" is too low to take an island?

Any tips appreciated
Thanks

 

[davek0974]

Anyone ?

 

[SammyInnit]

Would you feel 7'6" is too low to take an island?

Depending on the depth, no.

 

[davek0974]

I would the shallowest it could be made is around 5" maybe?

 

[Notch7]

it would be ok for a central cloud.

If it is going to be a large part of the room it might feel too low.

your ceilings are currently 2285mm and you want to lower to 2160mm? That is only 180mm above a standard door.

 

[davek0974]

Yeah, blasted modern houses with low ceilings Typical 1980's Barratt shoebox.

I was hoping to do a large island maybe out to around 900mm from the walls all round.

As you say, it will likely make it claustrophobic/oppressive so not worth doing.

I could do a Halo instead as we have that in the cinema room upstairs, but we have a chimney breast downstairs and a halo would make the recesses look a bit odd i think.

Oh well

 

[nigelknows]

What about coving with led?

 

[davek0974]

What about coving with led?

Yes, oddly i was just looking at that suff

We already have the arc cove at top so something lower like this...

Would it go just around the main room and NOT out/around the chimney breast OR should it go around the whole perimeter ??

 

[nigelknows]

Personal choice , I stopped mine at fireplace , I used standard lightweight coving fixed 30mm below ceiling to wall only , than ran led along top edge.

 

[Notch7]

try davuka

https://www.decorative-coving.co.uk/cornice-range/lighting-trough-profiles/

 

[davek0974]

View attachment 152755 Personal choice , I stopped mine at fireplace , I used standard lightweight coving fixed 30mm below ceiling to wall only , than ran led along top edge.

That looks very nice, do you find it good enough for main use lighting?

We have the regular arc coving fitted and wouldn't really want to rip that out so the LED uplight would need to go below by a small distance - the arc would help throw the light out too.

I'm thinking now of having the uplight coving plus my original idea of an island BUT making it smaller so maybe only 4' x 3' (proportioned to room) and having perimeter LEDS on that plus maybe 4 GU10 downlighter units in it. We have a ceiling light (ugly) that hangs down over 12" so a 6" lowered platform but not too big might be ok??

Yes, looks ok not going around the chimney breast too.