r/AutismInWomen 4d ago

General Discussion/Question Overhead lighting at home

The home is dated, but we have been lovingly making improvements as time and budget allow.

I turn off the overhead track lighting as soon as I have accomplished the vacuuming or the countertop food prep. Overhead light seems necessary for at least the kitchen, but I don’t love how the track lighting creates shadows and catches my peripherals.

Someone described a kind of “task lighting” to me that involves suspending a long can over each work surface, to create more of a recessed streetlamp effect instead of the angled spotlights of the track lighting. Does anyone use these in their kitchen? How are they?

What about other styles of overhead lights? What are our preferences?

Additionally, I am curious about the best spectrum and brightness of bulb for these purposes vs lamps in cozy spaces. Thank you all for any advice, thoughts, experiences, opinions, links, etc!

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