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Dial DOWN the light!

Make your living room more romantic, increase the wattage of the light bulbs to 100 or 150. (It’s essential that your lamps are labeled to accept this wattage; if not, they’ll need rewiring, which may cost about $30.) Then install dimmer switches and dial the brightness down. You’ll get a golden-yellow light that encourages intimate conversations.
Why not just start with less wattage? Because a 100-wattbulb dimmed to 60 watts casts a yellower light - more like candlelight - than a plain 60-watt bulb. So simple but it works! Try it.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 at 8:33 am and is filed under Living Room. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “Dial DOWN the light!”

  1. mango Says:
    December 17th, 2008 at 9:28 am

    Really simple and really cool idea.
    But if the bulb will not operate at full wattage, I guess there is no need to be so paranoid about rewiring…

  2. PoloG Says:
    December 17th, 2008 at 9:32 am

    Yep, you can buy inexpensive fire extinguisher :)