Noddy or any lighting experts?

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My new entrance hall is very dark. We're having a door with some glazing panels but even so it's gloomy even today.
The ceiling is a standard height so I can't have anything too low.
I need a big bright ceiling light. I've heard talk of daylight bulbs but no idea what they are or if they're a good idea.
The floors are a neutral limestone & the walls will probably be Ammonite or Strong White. Any ideas?

If you want bright diverse lighting you could get LED spotlights put in.

We have them in our kitchen. They are not spotlights in the old fashioned sense. They don't come down in a beam but just give a diverse white light.

Other than that a flat round ceiling light with two bulbs in.

You need to get the right LED bulb though. It needs to be a bright white not yellow light.

Probably go to a specialist lighting shop. Get advice on the right sort of LED bulb.

if you have a roomy hall, or a spare corner, you can have a table or standard lamp or uplighter, which is less troublesome than altering your ceiling fittings. As they run off plugs you can more easily have them switch from Daylight in the morning to Warm White when evening comes, which feels more natural and helps the body clock. For some reason SAD lights are set to illuminate ceilings and you can't usually see the lamp directly.

I don't like spots or downlighters, unless you want puddles of light in a dark room.

Warm White lamps are marked 2700k and daylight lamps at about 5000k I think, but I only ever get 2700k

You can still get long fluorescent tubes, but in a house (or hotel) they would usually be concealed by a pelmet or something so you only see the light they cast on ceilings and walls.

Halogens are whiter and bluer, but cost much more to run, and give out a lot of heat. Try to use something cheaper.

CFLs and LEDs cost about the same to run for the same light output, but LEDs are currently more expensive to buy.

you might find some info from Osram who are considered a very good lighting company. I can't get their website to open applications/home today though.

try this

I would go for one with multiple arms that lights in various directions and also put a mirror up (if possible opposite a light source like the door). My friend has this problem in a utility room that she didn't want to change because it was fully tiled and she got a light from John Lewis called Nembus I think its chrome and has 3 or 4 arms and is very bright. So something like that

Thanks so much.
I've noted the bulbs & have identified a space for a table, lamp & mirror.
Massive help, thsnjs

Lighting problems can be pretty tough to deal with