Quick update for folks in NYC on where to find good quality CFL and LED lighting products for your home in a retail store. Great staff who are hugely helpful.
Gracious Home, now open in Chelsea, has a great new selection of Green Lighting bulbs (or "lamps" as I am told they are technically called). What I liked was that the LAMPS were organized by the color temperature of the light. How tired are you of getting a CFL or LED bulb home only to find that it's a weak white/blue when you wanted warm, soft white?
Remember for warm tones in the living room and bedroom, you want 2700K temperature lights. Don't be snookered by the "pure daylight" marketing materials; those bulbs put off a super-white-to-bluish light and are rated at 5000K. Ick. Here is the original post: Where to find quality LED and CFL Bulbs?
I was especially impressed that they were carrying the new LED under-cabinet lights from WAC. The WAC InvisiLED Tape Lights are far and away the best performing LED under-cabinet lights I've seen (and I've tried too many...). No heat. Very low energy use. Simple install. Easy to link together. Check 'em out!
[where: 10032][where: Harlem][where: Sugar Hill]
Jan 22, 2009
Update: Green Lighting LED and CFL Bulbs
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The WAC InvisiLED looks like a great solution for undercabinet lighting. I hadn't figured out what I was going to do for our new kitchen for that yet, just figuring I'd go with fluorescents for that.
Gene: thanks for the comment. There have simply not been many great solutions to date. I couldn't abide the fluorescents. Makes the veggies look weird...!
The only other one I've found that seems to put out decent light is: http://www.pegasusassociates.com/led-task-light-pddu28led.html
However, I haven't been able to see it live yet.
That looks interesting, but maybe almost too much for undercabinet lighting in a kitchen. A lab, sure, but 28 LEDs would be pretty darn bright I think.
have you seen these in real life? Kudos to Gracious Home for educating the consumer.
Ellen
Yes, they have a display in the store. 5ft minimum run is required. They even sell a "contractor kit" that has all of the connectors. Amazing to see them next to older technology bulbs to compare the quality.
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