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"Good looking" bulbs with "good light".

Well... I have been rat holing on "good light" for a bit over a year.

I replaced some leaky recessed light halogens with this cheapo amazon led things. Was amazing how much warmer the room became but the light color made me ill. Sort of a greenish blah. Even though the light was bright and the lights were actually 2700k the stuff in room looked horrid.

Turns out CRI is a weighted average of how a small number of color patches render. The manufacturers tuned their led so those patches looked great - essentially hacked the test so high scoring bulbs can still look awful.

Is seriously distressing to fill a room with crappy LED, makes a dark winter so depressing.

https://www.waveformlighting.com/tech/what-is-cri-color-rendering-index

Long story short I've been ordering light samples from different makers and pretty much the best I've found are SORAA vivid. I've got a bunch ordered for the kitchen in 3000k and the light is lovely to our eyes. You've got to see them to believe it though.

https://www.soraa.com/assets/cloud/product_specs/par30s/00837/lm79.pdf

Rest of house we stick with 2700 and love the warmth, especially winter afternoons when sun sets at 4:30pm.

LED make sense for areas where your lights are mostly on.

For fixtures with odd shaped bulbs you'll look at I think its better to just go with incandescent - you probably aren't using those lights all the time?
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