How to deal with halogen lights hurting your eyes

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I have gable roof and there are 4 halogen lights on ceilings. If I am sitting upright, it's good but due to the angle of the ceiling, if I move slightly to any direction the light goes directly to my eyes.

Even if I look at my tablet or phone the light reflection hits my eyes. It's very annoying and I searched to find some sort of diffuser but they are only used for light bulbs and halogen lights are flat and screwed inside the wall/ceiling. Any solution that helps is appreciated.

I am looking for something that is also good looking. I don't want to have something like a patch on the ceiling.

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Best Answer

If you are happy with some DIY work - grating type diffusers which have an array of holes each maybe 15mm square, with the array mounted "some distance" below the light surface will provide full illumination downwards with a quite sharp cutoff at an angle.

Adjusting "some distance" and tilting the array will allow you to customise vision lines

Can be known as egg crate louvres - several examples here

One example - many styles exist.

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