Knowing how many lamps you need to adequately illuminate a room or space can be tricky.
Lumens per square foot laundry room.
When lighting a room you light it by suggested lumens per square foot.
Multiply your room square footage by your foot candle requirement.
Living room 15 lumenskitchen general 35 lumenskitchen task 75 lumensdining room 35 lumensbedroom 15 lumenshallway 10 lumensbathroom 75 lumens notice the task orientated spaces will have a higher lumen requirement like in the kitchen and bathroom.
For the average space of 250 square feet you ll need roughly 5 000 lumens as your primary light source 20 lumens x 250 square feet.
In your dining room you ll want about 30 lumens per.
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X 10 20 foot candles 1 000 to 2 000 lumens.
Once you ve measured the room and calculated the required foot candles it s time to determine how many lumens a space needs.
List of the required lumens per sq foot based on the room type.
Watts are no longer used as the standard measure of light bulb brightness because watts actually indicate electricity usage not light.
So using the figure above as an example you would be lighting for 120 feet based on 12x10 room.
To figure out the lumens needed based on this figure you would take the total lumens of the lamp you are considering using and divide it by the total square foot.