Getting 6 Lotus Gimbals in our living room’s vaulted ceiling. Already bought LRG4-32K-HO-WH-DTW. Can’t return. 

\--> Yesh, removing jerry-rigged ceiling fan off the beam (why I blotted it out). (No, we can't put anything in its place.)

# Placement Challenges:

* 12 ft vaulted ceiling.
* Middle of the vaulted ceiling is NOT center of the living room. (Ceiling is shared by split level foyer).
* Middle of the ceiling in the other direction is ALSO not the center of the room because of a footpath.
* Only ONE real, solid wall. 
* One wall: almost entirely windows. 
* Other “wall area” has tons of openings: wide one into dining room, “window’ into kitchen, doorway into kitchen. 
* Final “wall area” is all split up, not 1 seamless wall (split level stairs into foyer, so foyer wall “zigs” out and “zags” to form walls of coat closet over stairs) 

# My GOAL:

Gorgeous, luxurious ambient & accent lighting that gives us good light where we need it and makes what we love even prettier. The kind where you step into the room and it lifts your heart.

# The Question: EC just wants to throw 4 up on one half, two on the other half, evenly apart. But this doesn’t take into account function and seating?

**Wanting help with precise placement: distance from wall, beam angle, how to achieve ambience and not weird glare on seating areas.**

MY Current thoughts (TLDR: see floor plan):  

**2 Lotuses washing the solid wall:** 1 could wash our future bookcase. 1 to wash above the 5x5 L-shape desk, highlighting (someday) floating shelves or artwork. **QUESTION:** **Is this sound?** Or foolish and bad glare for hubby working? If it’s sound, where EXACTLY to put them to accomplish this (distance from wall, especially) & how to direct beam angle?

\--> **1 Lotus to wash the small 3’3” section of full wall, washing our gorgeous parlor palm** lifted up on a console table. **QUESTION:** Is this legit? How far from the wall should the light be placed? 

\--> **1 Lotus to wash the wall above the window into our kitchen**??? (see floor plan) There’s certainly a large, empty section of wall right there, but I don’t know that we will ever do anything with it…  **QUESTION:** Is this sound or idiotic to wash an empty wall? Should the light just go straight downward and light the walkway? –Or will that create glare by the couch?

**--> 2 Lotuses left… What on earth do we do for them?** 

I do a LOT of reading and journaling on that sofa, and I sit facing the windows, legs up on the couch. I want to avoid any harsh glare or harsh light. Currently, we do have a lamp hanging over the couch and light from the foyer pendant.



Could this even get better as a light layout? Worried my electrician is just trying to throw a grid up in our weird layout.