Table Lighting Battle

[Island Drive]

Notice the wall shadows with 36'' bulb ht.
And with this 4 light fixture, there are no shadows under the cushions.

 

[8cree]

Since I had lots of time last year, I tried my hand at building one. I built a frame around a drop-in 2'X4' LED panel from SuperBrightLEDs. After a few iterations, it came out like this.

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The frame is made from crown molding with a shelf made out of quarter-round molding on the inside, so basically you surface-mount the frame then drop in the light (or feed it up through the bottom like I did). The light is both dimmable and color-adjustable from 3000K to 5000K. It looks more like furniture and less commercial, and 2'X4' is plenty to light the whole surface without shadows. Here are some more pictures.

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The last two images are 5000K and 3000K, respectively. My phone does some color adjustment to the photos and 3000K looks more like 5000K and vice-versa, but you can see the difference color temperature makes. The light cost me about $100 and the supplies for the frame cost me about $100 (but you can make a frame for less than half that, I just wanted the fancy pattern).

Nice! I have 2 of the 8500 lumen 2x4's from superbrightled that I will be hanging over my table. Looks like that one does a pretty good job! Since you can change the color of yours as well, I think you may have the same fixture. I got the remote where you can dim the light as well, and as much light as you have there, I will likely need it!

Good work on yours!