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Dear Alice | Interior Design

Lighting and Design | When to Use Cans

Dear Alice | Interior Design

Alice Lane

Arts, Design, Visual Arts

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

When do I use a can and what are cans good for? We get a lot of questions about cans and lighting so today we decided to dive into this topic to help you better understand the best tactics you can use for can lighting. If you’re in a home that has cans already, but need to replace them, you should be able to get a can kit and replace them fairly simply, and then you want your can lights to be close enough to where the light on the floor will overlap as they shine down. We go over mirror lighting and recommend making sure you can get lighting on both sides of your face. Situating your lamps in a place where you can hide the cords coming from them is crucial for keeping a clean look. RCP, reflected ceiling plan 1:29 Light temperature 5:03 Lighting and mirrors 12:49 Dimmers 20:57 “Your art heights, in general, you’re going to want to do those from the floor up. I like 60 inches off the ground, so that’s 5 feet off the ground. That’s right around your eye level–” “And that’s for the center of the piece of art.” “Yeah, so the subject of the art should sort of hover right there at your eye level.” 11:43 https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/ https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/ https://alicelanehome.com/ https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHome https://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/ https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecity News Letter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Dear Alice, a lifestyle approach to interior design.

0:22.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Dear Alice!

0:25.0

We are talking about lighting today.

0:27.0

It's a very complex situation out there folks.

0:31.0

And this all came about because I got a request, somebody DMed me actually,

0:36.0

and they wanted to know like when do I use a can?

0:39.0

What are cans good for in your opinion?

0:41.0

And I was like, you know what, this is a very good question

0:44.0

because we're constantly wrestling with it from house to house everywhere we go.

0:49.0

So we do have opinions.

0:50.0

As we sat down to really outline this podcast, I learned how passionate we are about it.

0:55.0

And we even actually weighed in with our favorite electrician Mark.

0:58.0

We called him up and we were like, Mark, let's talk about can lighting for a minute.

1:02.0

Let's get the four wise.

1:03.0

Mark had some ideas.

1:05.0

We were like 70% in agreeance with him.

1:07.0

And we're going to tell you why we disagree with him on the other 30%.

1:12.0

So lots to talk about.

1:14.0

Let's unpack it.

1:16.0

Let's unpack it.

1:18.0

You guys listen to those podcasts where they use the word unpack.

1:22.0

I'm just trying.

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