Boden wrote:

Pete C. wrote:
RBM wrote:

"Aaron Fude" wrote in message
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Hi,

I have a slight contradiction of goals which I am hoping to resolve.

I would like to have recessed lights that are as inconspicuous as
possible yet fill the room with nice soft light.

Do there exist recessed lights that are small (3" or 4"), yet do what
I want them to do?

Many thanks in advance,

Aaron

I would consider incandescent light as "soft", and in a four inch fixture,
the largest lamp you'll get is 65 watt BR30. IMO, you'd need an impractical
number of these to "fill" the room, and still be inconspicuous, unless it's
a pretty small room


Consider tubular fluorescent cove lighting around the room perimeter
reflecting off the white ceiling.

One of the biggest mistakes that I made was putting recessed lights in
my home. I have over 100, 4 or 5 inch recessed incandescent lights
through out our house and find that they are useless unless we're
directly under them. They don't fill the room with light.

Boden

I would recommend checking their adjustments. Recessed lights have an
adjustment for the lamp socket position, which if it's set too far back
greatly reduces the beam width of the light emitted. Move the socket
position lower and you can get a much better beam spread while still
keeping the lamp out of regular view.