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What’s New With Kitchen Lighting Design?
If you want to dig around in the detail then pick an LED lighting savings calculator and figure out the implications for your own personal situation. But in broad terms, you can easily replace a typical 50 watt halogen lamp with something like this Edison gu10 LED that consumes a mere 6 watts by comparison.
Put in simple terms, the running cost is 12% that of a conventional lamp, or if you prefer, for every £100 you would otherwise spend annually on electric lighting, by switching to LED ... How To Fit Kitchen Down Lights
With the holes and cable runs in place, it's time to decide on the lamps themselves. The fittings themselves are usually agnostic on this score and you typically have a choice between different types of light bulb, namely mains versus low voltage (often characterized, incorrectly, as gu10 and MR16) and incandescent (typically halogen) versus LED spotlights.
If you're determined to go down the conventional incandescent lamp route then you may now proceed to the debate about low voltage compared to line ... Fed Up With Outrageous Energy Bills? Read On…
..) but statistically that assessment is going to be accurate more often than not.
But those two figures (£140 vs £16) are not plucked out of thin air - that's the genuine difference between a regular kitchen lit using a mere ten 50 watt halogen lamps and the same space lit just as brightly using ten gu10 LED bulbs. Astounding isn't it? Image how much you could save if you did the same for the whole house?
So to get even more bang for your buck then start switching over to LED light bulbs pronto. Yes, they're more expensive to buy and you do need to be careful about what exactly you do buy since there is a wide ... How To Use LED Lighting In Your Own Home
Where spotlighting is concerned though then LEDs are where it's at and in particular gu10 LED bulbs which can easily and very effectively be used in situations where down lights or track lighting would normally hold sway. The financial savings can also be quite staggering by simply targeting this type of lighting because it is so prevalent these days (a victim of its own success).
You can replace/install low voltage MR16 type LED ... Still Using Halogen Lamps? Are You Mad?
And the way fuel prices keep heading on up, it will just keep getting ever more expensive the longer you stick to your old ways.
These days an LED gu10 lamp equivalent to 50 watts brightness will cost somewhere around £14 while the regular halogen version is more like £2. But whereas you will doing well to get 2,000 hours out of the halogen lamp, the LED should sail past 20,000 hours with no trouble at all. So just on purchase costs alone, sticking with ... 
