Lighting Matters

If you are working with a builder, make sure the "allowances" allow you to buy something more than something online and on sale.  For the purpose of building, banks allow certain amounts of money for each part of the construction.  If a $500,000 home is built they should've spent around $10,000 on lighting fixture or 2% of the cost to build the home.  I live in a area where they are trying to make so much profit for themsleves, that they are not putting into the home what you are paying for.  In other words, people are over paying for shotty workmanship.  

We are in the process of changing out every fan and every light in this house. We are about 3/4 of the way through.  The previous lighting had unrelated finishes to anything.  It's as if they went to home depot and bought out their sale rack.  In my previous post, you saw the master bathroom changes.  It makes an enormous difference when you can see. 

These are some of the examples.  On the left is the old foyer fixture.  It cast a funky green light.  I tried to sell it and ended up giving it away to the Habitat Restore.  

On the right is what we now have.  It takes 8 40 walt bulbs and is much larger so the spread of light is amazing.  It's hung just over 7' from the floor.