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What’s New With Kitchen Lighting Design?
However, while all these different types of lighting really do help create a stunning look that is both immensely practical and visually pleasing at the same time, there is a price to pay and that is the cost of running it all.
Up until quite recently it was common to use 50W halogen lamps for recessed down lighting. In even a fairly modest with say 10 lamps that's 500 watts just to provide the background light. You can easily see how a well appointed kitchen might be consuming thousands ... How To Fit Kitchen Down Lights
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 voltage. If however you don't have numerous screws loose and are instead ... Not All LED Light Bulbs Are Created Equal
Actually, why does anyone buy 1W and 2W LED bulbs anyway? To replace their kitchen down lights with night lights perhaps?
Still on the printed information, check also for color temperature (and for spot lights, the beam angle which you want to be about the same as for a regular halogen lamps). The color temperature is not something anyone ever mentioned with incandescent light bulbs, but with LED it is important since there is quite a wide range.
We're talking about white light "color" as in how warm or cool the effect is. As a rule, for most domestic applications ... Can You Mix ‘n Match Transformers With LED Lights?
Too much or too little and they cannot maintain a steady output voltage.
Thus the converse case is also true, when a transformer that is designed to drive, let's say, a maximum of 500 watts worth of halogen lamps is attached to 20 watts worth of LED spotlights. The expected resistance is not present, the output voltage increases and your expensive, long lasting LED bulbs burn out in short order. The trouble though is that often the damage being done isn't obvious - the lights do still appear to work (until it's too late of ... Fed Up With Outrageous Energy Bills? Read On…
You may very well not be like most people (in which case, apologies...) 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 ... 
