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Ask the builder: Interior lights that wow

It’ s very hard to keep up with all of the improvements in building materials and products. Thousands of new things hit the ...
TESS, a Taiwanese manufacturing company, recently introduced a 7W LED bulb that, at 560 lumens, can serve as a replacement for a typical 500-lumen, 40W incandescent bulb (Figure 1). TESS has received ...
Generally you see a light bulb and you think “yep, a light bulb.” But when you see an LED bulb, you might pause and say “wait, isn’t there more to an LED than there is to incandescents?” And you’d be ...
The typical household LED light bulb is advertised with a 25,000 hour lifespan, which would be more than 20 years at 3 or so hours of use per day. That sounds great, but it seems that a good number of ...
Working as an interior designer means you will invariably be the one who sweats the small stuff—the one who deliberates over two nearly indistinguishable shades of white. I’ve been a professional ...
Now that incandescent bulbs are on the way out, LED bulbs are a clear choice, but there are things to keep in mind when buying them. Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a ...