Sunny Delight
Compact flourescents get a much needed warm-up.
(Photograph by Joel Benjamin; styling by Maureen Dahill)
The problem with many of the super-efficient light bulbs on the market? You install a bulb, flip a switch, and the cold blue light flooding your formerly comfortable room makes you feel as though you’ve been transported inside a freezer. Not the new Sylvania Soft White A-Line compact fluorescent (CFL). Lucy Dearborn, a co-owner of Lucia Lighting & Design in Lynn, switched the three incandescent bulbs in a fixture over her kitchen table at home for the new CFLs ($8.99 each). "It was a week before my husband noticed,"she says, because of the warm, yellow glow. But the difference will show up on their electric bills. That really is a bright spot.
Lucia Lighting & Design 311 Western Avenue, Lynn, 781-595-0026, lucialighting.com
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