Well it depends upon the particular situation.

Sometimes A sometimes B and sometimes C situations arise but sometimes two or more is really what is needed. So it`s not always OR sometimes it`s AND. Only you can decide.


I know I`ve mentioned this before but quite a few years back a couple had an old cottage three floors two staircase home they wanted rewiring. They wanted "steplights" like they`d seen at airports (Glass and steel stairways) built into their stairways (Traditional wooden stairways and plaster walls). The effects were not immediately comparable but they liked the idea.


LED lighting was pretty much in its infancy but they wanted say blue LED lighting sunk into the string of the stairs every two steps.

So I had a word with the joiner to cut some squrare holes in the strings prior to installing the stairways.

The finished result was actually very nice.

At each stairway they could switch two options 1/ Bog standard lightng above their heads or steplights lighting.

Either were adequate to enable them to safely navigate the stairwas and off course they could have both lights on and this was quite nice too.


They were not emergency lights of course but I did take the opportunity to put the different lighting for each stairway on two different lighting circuits because there were three lighting circuits - one each floor. This gave the added bonus that if any one lighting circuit was isolated then at least one method of lighting each staircase was still available if required.

Well it depends upon the particular situation.

Sometimes A sometimes B and sometimes C situations arise but sometimes two or more is really what is needed. So it`s not always OR sometimes it`s AND. Only you can decide.


I know I`ve mentioned this before but quite a few years back a couple had an old cottage three floors two staircase home they wanted rewiring. They wanted "steplights" like they`d seen at airports (Glass and steel stairways) built into their stairways (Traditional wooden stairways and plaster walls). The effects were not immediately comparable but they liked the idea.


LED lighting was pretty much in its infancy but they wanted say blue LED lighting sunk into the string of the stairs every two steps.

So I had a word with the joiner to cut some squrare holes in the strings prior to installing the stairways.

The finished result was actually very nice.

At each stairway they could switch two options 1/ Bog standard lightng above their heads or steplights lighting.

Either were adequate to enable them to safely navigate the stairwas and off course they could have both lights on and this was quite nice too.


They were not emergency lights of course but I did take the opportunity to put the different lighting for each stairway on two different lighting circuits because there were three lighting circuits - one each floor. This gave the added bonus that if any one lighting circuit was isolated then at least one method of lighting each staircase was still available if required.