Switched live misidentified - Danger?

Getting back to the lighting problem, are the new kitchen lights low power LED and the lounge much higher powered or a conventional bulb?
Quite likely. The kitchen diner had 3 10w bulbs in each fitting E10 or something if i remeber correctly. The lounge is a chandelier with 4 or 5 larger more standard looking bulbs.
the lounge was on a dimmer originally but as soon as I noticed it was now controlling the kitchen lights i swapped the dimmer for a standard 1 gang switch. To avoid damaging the kitchen lights that were not compatible (buzzed when dimmer controlled them)
 
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Quite likely. The kitchen diner had 3 10w bulbs in each fitting E10 or something if i remeber correctly. The lounge is a chandelier with 4 or 5 larger more standard looking bulbs.
the lounge was on a dimmer originally but as soon as I noticed it was now controlling the kitchen lights i swapped the dimmer for a standard 1 gang switch. To avoid damaging the kitchen lights that were not compatible (buzzed when dimmer controlled them)
and do did the kitchen switches do anything?
 
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and do did the kitchen switches do anything?
They did work fine, they had those long halogen lights in originally, I changed them for the new fitting, then only one of them worked off the kitchen switch that time.
Took them down, painted. Re fitted and then neither work of the kitchen switch, but after that fitting the living room controls them.
The livng room also worked fine before the change of lights. Now nothing from light.
I will take the kitchen lights down and photo the wires this morning. Ill probably find one wire not sat in its block correctly or something too.
 

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