Lighting Question
Howdy y'all ☺
We are getting ready to move, hopefully by the end of this month! We will be moving into my husband's parent's house, which has been sitting empty for a couple of years now. The house has an attached garage, but my father-in-law had another one-car garage built in the back yard to use as a storage shed. As a reward for not grumbling too much about moving (I HATE moving!), I get to turn the backyard garage into my sewing room!!! The first step in this will be to seal off the roll-up garage door and have a regular walk-in door and 3 windows put in. The next step will be to put in whatever type of lighting I decide to use before I call an electrician to run electricity to the shed and install the outlets.
Since I first joined this board, opinions on lighting a sewing room have ranged from fluorescent lighting to daylight bulbs to LED lighting. I'm pretty sure that the fluorescent lights are outdated now, but I'm not 100% sure which of the other two choices are the best. Would LED lights be TOO bright to light the entire room with, or not? Should I go with the daylight equivalent bulbs for general lighting, then use LED lighting for lamps and direct lighting, or should I go with LED for all lighting? No matter which lighting I go with, should I go with bulbs overhead, or would some type of fixtures (longer perhaps?) be better?
If it helps with the answers, I plan to put in a door with windows in it at the front left corner of the garage, then one window in each of the other three walls. My main sewing machine (in a cabinet) will be in the back left corner, and a countertop will be put at the front, running from the door to the right front corner to hold my other (portable) machines. So if y'all were in my position, what type of lighting would you use? Thanks in advance for any and all advice! 😃
Donna