I guess I'm used to thinking 4000k is a little yellow, but that's possibly being too literal. Having now actually checked, my Hue's at 4000k (ish) are perfect for the look of my house.
Thanks!
Now you've mapped it all out, what you're saying makes a lot of sense. My worktops will come out 650mm from the wall, but having lights in the positions you have placed them works nicely. Only thing that bugs me is the off-line fitting near the fridge/freezer. Hmmm.
Yeah, I can see how it bugs people, but if you pull all of the others out to match this, you'll get shadows on the worktop area where you're working form your body and the light won't be in the right place, then if you bring that single fitting in, then you'll just mainly light the top of the unit.
Honestly don't worry about it, with the white bezels you'll hardly notice. I have various steps all over the kitchen ceiling for the spots and it hasn't bothered me once...... And I'm quite OCD.
I have a myriad of options, but the Flos Glo Ball are currently winning. Or I might get a spider pendant made up, depending on how it all looks.
Oooohhhh I like those, will go take a look at some more pictures to see how they'd look in ours.
NB. Every room in my house (apart from the kitchen) will have 40cm light cubes dotted around, throwing nicely diffused light from Philips Hue bulbs, so ambient lighting is pretty sorted. Just ceilings, really.
Awesome, it's good to have a selection of lights for different moods and you've planned it out well.
Would you go spots in lounge (etc) or hang pendants?
Well....... I have spots in the lounge, but it's purely around the perimeter to light up the wall art with a 2nd line of them going infront of the curtains (still not installed these yet). These are the ZEP6 darklights, so the shadows around the wall work perfectly as it highlights the art.
Our lounge is also a cinema room so I wanted a clean look and nothing to obscure the project that's on the ceiling at the back of the room. Although with all the rip out and install of the new kitchen, we're also redoing the lounge and will be mounting one of these on the back wall to give a nice warm glow when we don't want teh spots on.
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With the lounge area, definitely get warm 2700k lights, it'll give a more cosy relaxing feeling.
Ooooo... I can use one of those PSUs and have the strips mains-dimmable from a normal dimmer unit?!
Yes should work perfectly for that!
I really want to get rid of ceiling spots, but I don't have cabinets all around the perimeter, so I don't think the wash will totally work. Might be able to do away with the two down the dining room end though.
Exactly the same for me, but I might have enough to do the full wash. In the end, I'm leaving all the spot wiring in place with the PSUs removed and cables just joined with quick release Wago connectors. I'll mark down where the joists are and measurements in my notebook and spots can just be cut out and added if needed in the future.
That's very good of you, thanks!
Okay... explain the darklights to me. The inside is painted black so you don't get stray light bouncing around? That simple or more to it?
Pretty much that, but as the light engine itself is mounted further back into the fitting, you don't see it, so you've eliminated any chance of glare unless you get close to it.
The darklight ZEP1 work well in my parents kitchen and we have normal ZEP1 in ours. Essentially the normal ones are excellent, but they are more disperse than the darklights and I do prefer the look of those in my parents kitchen. Either way though they'll work perfect well and you can always have the spots off and just use the undercounter, hood and above unit strips to give a different effect. Call it party mode 
