Your living room lighting plan should be flexible enough for multiple functions. Living room lighting plan to change when they decide to change the arrangement of furniture in their room.
You could install recessed or track lighting to provide light throughout the room or on a specific area in your room light. If you are using recessed lighting anywhere in your room, you want a bulb that will give you all use relief.
Depending on the fixture you are using, there will be different specifications regarding how far from the wall and the corner where you can. Wall lamps give more of an indirect lighting effect which is not lit area just cleared.