Let's see if GF plaster board can proceed. Then we can use downlight designs for a brighter living room as draft below.
Keep the other rooms standard 1x cool white LED + 1x warm LED. Betting on developer's original layout should be sufficient despite what the reno contractor recommends as alternative overlapping LED placements on more points using weaker watt lights.
Below is shopping list for round 2 trip, hopefully last trip to the lighting shop.
A friend's hubby who is eletrical guy as his main job advises to go for 840 type LED, which is 4000 (K) warmth which is more gentler to our eyes. Try not to go for 830 LED , 3000 (K) as its more yellow.
830 = warm white, 840 = day light.
Quick googling for LED color temperature chart probably can help here.
LED light price scale with its Watt output. My take should be it's the intensity or how strong the light is. So if bigger space can opt for more lights or pick at least 18W to 25W LED. Those downlight type comes with it's driver part, so any damage happen to it we just replace the whole unit.
Another cheaper type is the downlight cone type. We screw normal E27 LED bulbs or incandescent bulbs if you feeling so old school to the holder. Bulb got blowed out, you buy new bulb any DIY replace yourself like a boss, easy as how kiddos replace caps of their coke bottle. The downside is it looks very old fashioned, else i would practically go for this type.
Oh right, the shopping list, below is the draft if everything goes according to plan.
6 pc from Car porch, gate lamp and staircase area.- need to snap photo for actual location of staircase again.
20 pcs from Balconies, bathrooms and bedrooms
11 pcs from kitchen area, living room, prayer table, store room and utility room.
Below are some idea for tiles grabbed from pinterest.
Balcony idea 1 - same size, different shade of colors
Kitchen /utility room idea 1 - 4 colors group into diamond shaped arrangnment. 2x white, 1x grey, 1x black.
Kitchen wall idea 2- mosaic effect.
Kitchen idea 3- abit tricky since already have existing lower part such as above and need match. If wrongly match, the atmosphere it projects is kind of uh...toiletry? Current lower portion of tiles is a 1x1 feet light orange/beige color. So am thinking to go with subway/brick style laying for tile of similar shade color but maybe larger pieces.
