Summary: Calculating Total Lumens Needed for a Room Let’s recap how to gauge how much light you need for a space. Multiply your room square footage by the footcandle requirement. For example, a 100-square foot living room, which needs 20 foot candles, will need 2,000 lumen...
When illuminating your kitchen, there are three types of lighting about which you need to know. The first is ambient lighting. Ambient lighting serves as the base lighting for the room and is the general lighting that illuminates the overall kitchen space. According toLumens, ambient lighting ill...
9-watt Compact Fluorescent Lamp = 450 lumens So to clarify, generally, total light output from a light source, regardless of the direction the light travels, is specified inlumens(lm). So can I just find a handy lumen comparison chart to see how many lamps I need for my studio space?