Let there be light Lighting for your home is quite possibly the
most important task, at least if you expect to use your home at
night. Good lighting makes your home look a lot better and of
course brighter. The type of lighting that we use has changed
over the past few years. Lights have become more and more
efficient and powerful. The movement towards the conservation of
energy has resulted in the improvement in the quality of
lighting products. Back in the old days a 25 watt incandescent
lamp would light up a tiny stairway or a small storeroom. A 75
watt incandescent lamp would give you about enough light to
light up a small study room or a table lamp. If that’s not
bright enough a 100 watt bulb would definitely do the trick.
While incandescent bulbs may have been the discovery that put us
out of darkness, it sure isn’t very efficient. When it comes to
measuring efficiency we usually see how many lumens a source
will produce per watt. Incandescent lamps produced a max of 17
lumens per watt while compact flu