Lighting plan
One row per layer per room, with what it lights, the lamp or fixture, the lumens, the color, the control and who does the work, and a trial sheet for bulbs you buy to test. Seeded from your setup.
Essential on a first pass: the layers for the first room, from Layers, fixtures and glare, with the control from Switches, dimmers and evening light. The bulb trial is optional until you try bulbs in Your lighting plan; without it you lose the record of what you bought, what you returned and why, which is how a second room goes faster.
Layers
One row per layer per room. The lumens target is a range from the calculator or a note; your own reading after the change settles it. Who does it is the line between your work and an electrician's.
Bulb trial
One row per bulb or lamp bought to try. Try it in place at the hours the room is used, for about a week, and decide before the return date.
How to use these sheets
- One row per layer per room. General, task, accent or night. A room usually has two to four rows; a layer lit by two lamps can be one row or two.
- Lumens target is a range or a note. Copy the range from the lumen calculator, or write "800-lumen bulb in place of the 450". It is a starting point; the reading after the change settles it.
- Match kelvin within a room unless you have chosen otherwise on purpose (Bulbs, labels and color).
- Who does it is the line between your work (bulbs, lamps, plug-in and battery lights) and an electrician's (anything behind a plate or canopy). A renter's row that needs wiring goes to the landlord first. Working with an electrician sorts it.
- Trial before you commit. One row per bulb or lamp bought to try, with the return date from the receipt. Decide before that date.
The example rows come from Marisol's living room (invented figures). The general layer keeps her ceiling fixture with two matching 2700 K bulbs; its lumens target is the calculator's Defense Department range, under this manual's assumptions. The task layer is the floor lamp moved beside the sofa arm with a brighter bulb. The accent row is unresolved because she has not chosen a light yet. Her trial rows show one bulb kept and one returned, each with a reason.
The plan records what you intend and why. It is not a wiring plan, and a row marked electrician is a wish for the brief, not an instruction: the electrician and, where one applies, the inspector decide how and whether it is done. The lumens column is an estimate; your retest is the evidence.