Hi, May I know what type of lighting you use for small bedrooms? downlight? fluorescent? ceiling/wall lamp?
How many light and how much wattage is enough to brighten up the whole room?

what the small bedroom will use for? Reading room, mate bedroom, covert to store room???
Base on that you could define what you need to in place for.

It will be bedroom, not study room or store room.

You have not give enough detail for people to comment. A bedroom can be 100 sqft up to 10,000 sqft.

My take

Mini room-flourescent light (wall or ceiling mounted)

Small Room-downlight with or without flourescent light (wall or ceiling mounted)

Medium Room-cove light with or without downlight, flourescent light (wall or ceiling mounted)

Big room-decorative ceiling light with or without cove light, downlight, flourescent light (wall or ceiling mounted)

Huge room-chandelier with or without decorative ceiling light, cove light, downlight, flourescent light (wall or ceiling mounted)

The above can apply to any room

Agree ?!?

This post has been edited by phoenix69: Apr 4 2012, 07:41 PM

Size without measurement is subject to person interpretation.

just use this.....

The room is about 200 sqft. I have only 1 lighting point so I need advise on which type of light to use.
Thanks

200 sqft is not consider small. Some house this is already a Master bedroom. Ah well, my Master bedroom 15% more than your small room.

For me, I have 6 downlight, with 2 x 18 watts per bulb, with 2 switches. Each switch turn 3 downlight.

If you want bright, and don't mind the no fashion look, use 2 unit of T5 (4ft), sure bright. If downlight, you need 6 to achieve the same brightness of 2 x T5.

For medium, you need 2 unit of T5 (3ft). or 4x downlight with twin bulbs.

Since you only have one switch, you can't play around with 1/2 or 1/3 lights switch on. So you really need to decide if you want

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Added on April 4, 2012, 10:05 pmBed room normally temperature of warm white. If you like real white, than go for cool white.

This post has been edited by weikee: Apr 4 2012, 10:05 PM

Take into consideration, the height of your room too.

For normal 200sqft room, I think 4x down lights with twin bulbs will do.


If there's a fan hook in the centre of the ceiling, u may cut it away and install another light.

That's what I do to all my bedrooms. No ceiling fans, but decorative, less glaring light instead.

In that way, u can play around with switch.

Oh please, people. Facepalm.

Get a contemporary hanging frosted glass light, preferably sperical. Them get a 30w light bulb for maximum brightness.

Never get downlight for bedrooms. They're the worst.

Worse as in?