Replacing ceiling lights & adding more light
As usual, the incandescent bulbs in my ceiling lights put out way too much heat, use way too much electricity, and don't put out enough light. Also the fixture covers are somewhat dingy. I'm look...
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In my case, most of the ceiling lights were thin lite dual 18" fluorescent. These are ok when new but after many years flicker and fail, and burn though new bulbs fairly quickly. I finally decided to remove the ballasts and sockets and lay down a strip of led lights. nice thing is you can not only choose the light temp but the lumen output. I went with 3500K is is a nice color, for the living room and hallways, in the dinning kitchen area I went a tad bit warmer and used 3000K. what few incandescent were also upgraded to leds (1141 series) with 2700 K 300 lumen , I got the leds from superbrightleds.com and the 1141 drop in off amazon. All told a bit spendy but much better to just have lights that don't flicker and need to be managed all the time to get them to work.
