When a light burns out, that's a good time to see what's in there and see if there's a better option. In the upstairs bathroom, there's a wall fixture that already has a compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) and two pendants - each with a 45-watt candelabra base incandescent light bulbs.
One of the 45-watt bulbs burned out, so I went to Front Range Lighting to see if the had a CFL that would fit. For $6 each, they gave me two 5-watt swirly CFLs that are small enough to fit in the pendants. There are slightly higher wattage candelabra base lights that put out more light but they are too big to hide in the pendants.
After the first 30 seconds or so, the lighting looks great. I'm not sure if I'm going to keep them in there though because when you walk in, one of the new pendant CFLs goes one, then about 3 seconds later the other new CFL goes on. Why is that...they're both brand new!
After the first 30 seconds it feels great in there and the vanity lighting dropped from a total of 90 watts down to 10 watts.
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