id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body”> Light bulbs have an enormous, jual kursi tamu di pekanbaru everyday impact on the way our homes look and feel, and with a flood of new energy efficient LED bulbs filling the lighting aisle, you’ve got more options than ever. Plus, they can help you save on your electricity and energy bills. But how do you pick the right lights for the job? The trick is to think for a long time about how you typically put light to use in the different rooms in your home. That, more than anything, will dictate your lighting needs.
For instance, you might benefit from a super bright bulb in your favorite reading lamp, but prefer a gentler, more candlelike glow from the lamp at your bedside.
To that end, here are some room-specific tips to help you zero in on the right lights — from energy-saving light bulbs to CFL bulbs to LED smart bulbs to regular light bulbs — for your living space. Where appropriate, I’ve also included links to buy light bulbs from our tests.
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If you have high ceilings, you’ll want floodlights that shine nice and bright in a single direction.
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If you have rooms with high ceilings or recessed lighting — an entryway, for instance, or maybe a staircase with overhead lights up above — you’ll want to prioritize brightness over softness in your light bulbs. After all, the higher up your light bulbs are, the brighter they’ll need to be in order to light up the room.
The most common products for overhead lighting are BR30-shaped floodlights. The “BR” stands for “bulging reflector,” and it means that the light inside the bulb sits above a reflective bowl, sort of like a little satellite dish. Screw a bulb like that up into your ceiling, and that bowl will catch all of the upward cast light, then reflect it back down and out the bottom, which bulges outward to produce the widest possible pool of bright light across the room. It’s the same trick your car’s headlights use to produce as much light output as possible out in front of you as you drive.
