Thanx! Heh, I'm most proud of ventilated-heated floor...not the lights
I pounded the lightning issue a lot. Being photography-nerd, I'm not impressed by current CFL and LED lights due to bad colour response. So I still fancy dimmable 12V halogen. I opted for LED where lights are to be used a lot.
Incandescent bulbs are basically "black body emitters" so spectral composition is spot-on and corresponding to their 2800K "color temperature". LED bulb claiming to be "warm white" are a uneven mix of couple of primaries trying to look like white. I bought a 40$ dimmable Philips LED lamp (which was supposed to be best) and found out that a child toy painted in something that could be described as "cold white" became purple under LED lights. So incandescent it is for now.
Emission spectra for different lamps, blue is LED, pink is halogen (yes, majority ends up as heat and infra-red
), green is CFL and yellow is sun:
Lights used in kitchen are 18 pieces of Hide-A-Lite 12V 10W downlights:
1201 | Hide-a-lite
Those downlights need almost no additional height despite being 12V halogen, so the ceiling doesn't need to be lowered a lot. They emit pleasant "warm glow" when dimmed down (which LED cannot mimic). When ceiling is painted (and some grain is mixed into colour), these downlights are flush with ceiling and non-intrusive when switched off.
mreid, sorry for spamming your thread