The height for my new house family room at upstairs is about 20ft, with plaster ceiling completed by developer.
If placing the lighting at this height (20ft), I am worrying the lighting maintenance in the future .

Do you all have any idea to solve this problem?

wall light cannot put?

Definitely have maintenance problems such as cleaning and bulb replacement. Avoid it at all cost.

Most of wall lights are not bright enought.
And I not hope to put the flourescent light...

if you have in-built some cabinets in the living room upstairs maybe put those flourescent lights behing the cabinets.. hanging lights or fan on that tall ceiling is surely going to give headaches (like mine!!)..

what about those hanging lights where it hangs on the wire and drop down to your desired height (adjustable)?
That way, you can have easy maintenance. Only thing is the cleaning of the wire/cable which you can use a vacuum cleaner to reach as high as possible.

Why not try hanging lamps. That is quite a trend now. Also, they could be hang lower (easier to maintain) and changed to energy savings bulbs too. Add some wall lights at sides (change to energy savings bulbs as well) with white lights instead of yellow-ish. If this does not do the work, add a standing lamp by the corners of the room, change to energy savings bulbs again. Sure this will do the trick.

Yes, I am thinking the hanging lights too..
The normal height of a room is about 14ft. If using hanging lights, then about 6ft of cable will be exposed in between plaster ceiling and light.
Is it will look weird?

Some cables look quite nice. I dont think it will look weird. Besides, your light will hide the cables. The only thing is it might collect dust which you can use a vacuum cleaner to clean it.

Hmm... ok...
Let me find some hanging light from websites to refer to.
Hope can get some photos of them

Example pics would be as below:
http://www.furniturestoreblog.com/2009/10/...ert_studio.html

http://www.google.com.my/imgres?imgurl=htt...%26tbs%3Disch:1

Of course you could find better looking / brighter ones for your home.

install chandelier lights...

employed people to change the light for you in the future

This post has been edited by Tohsan: Sep 21 2010, 02:20 PM

Wah... it looks nice ... but sure it is expensive too...
Have to consider

That's the best solution. But is very prohibitory expensive for a small job.

think about looking at it everynight..