DIY Lighting Design: Perfect Canless Recessed Light Placement and Wiring!

This video will show you how to plan the positions of the recessed lighting in your unfinished basement. You will see how to use MATH to do this, as well as an online calculator if you wanna skip the math. You'll also see your options if joists are in your way, and how to connect and install the waffle lights to the junctions boxes after drywall.
I’m finishing the basement in our 40-year old home, and videoing each step along the way in a future bedroom. I am NOT a pro - just a self-sufficient DIYer finishing my basement on a budget. I've leveled the concrete and converted an old garage door threshold into an exterior door and window, and now I’m running electrical. I could totally hire a pro to come in and wire this thing for me, but why hire it out when I can build it on a budget myself???
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[@NathanHarrison7]

Excellent video. Great, fun, style. Subscribed.

[@mancyclediy]

Thank you!

[@marsBWR]

I was hoping you'd cover how you chose the number of lights in the first place. Considering ceiling height, angle of flood light, lumens, etc. Placement is somewhat trivial, especially with the wafer lights (don't have to worry about joists). Also, that's just general downlighting. What about task lighting? For a kitchen, you don't want to just take the number of lights, distance between them and divide by 2. You'd want it a certain distance off the face of cabinets as a function of the height of the ceiling or flood angle.

[@mancyclediy]

@marsBWR Those are GREAT questions. I'm a DIYer, learning as I go along and sharing what I'm learning from my current project. Having said that, take a look at different rooms in different houses, and you'll will notice a high level of variability in distance between lights. How many you choose will depend upon how much light you would like in a space. The room I built this video about is going to be a Maker Space, so you are correct, something like a kitchen would have different needs and therefore potentially a different design. I'd suggest checking a few kitchens out and modeling what you see that you like in your own project.

[@valtor5833]

actually very helpful thank you

[@mancyclediy]

My pleasure!

[@jeffsawyer4449]

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[@latinhorse75]

What model dimmer switch did you use, please?

[@mancyclediy]

Hi! I'm not wiring them up to a dimmer - sorry!

[@latinhorse75]

Thanks