LED Downlighters (Hello again, after many years)

Anna Kettle · 2020-02-19T09:16:22+00:00

Memory lane ...I first posted here before uk.d-i-y existed, when it was just a topic in uk.miscAnd then posted regularly on the newsgroup for several years as I was doing up my medieval farmhouse in Suffolk. I still recognise a few names from back then theskullster, R D S, Dave Plowman, John Rumm, The Natural Philsopher all look familiar. Others too. Hello!One of the things I always enjoyed about UK.d-i-y was the breadth of independent thought and that has brought me back (to google groups this time) with a question to punt in the airWhat do you think of LED downlighters? As a design featureI will nail my colours to the mast and say that I think they are useful over kitchen worktops and in places like corridors and cupboards. I totally dislike them in living rooms and bedrooms cos when I recline back in a chair or in bed they are staring me straight in the eyeNow this may just be me. I don't like looking at those filament bulbs either and I always make my own lights obscure. Other people don't seem to have an issue with them.Or could it be that splattering a property with downlights is an easy design option and no-one ever thinks about the aesthetics (what is beautiful about rows of dots on a ceiling. Nothing) or the glareI am looking at the wiring diagram of a barn conversion which we are doing for sale and downlights are specified everywhere. I am trying to decide whether I should scrub them, which would be cheaper and which I think would be better. Or whether the fact that the property is for sale makes a difference. Why stand out from the crowd?What do you think?Anna

Feb 19, 2020 Last reply: 6 years ago 24 Replies

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John Rumm 6 years ago

I suggest working on automated filtering for the group, just in case I have to take a day off :-)

In fact if you filter the one or two key spewers of drivel, and their devoted stalker, its not that different from the past.

Older and grumpier though, and some very good contributors have departed (and sadly not only the group but life as well, in some cases).

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ARW 6 years ago

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If you have seen it before then enjoy the repeat.

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ARW 6 years ago

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might be better

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tabbypurr 6 years ago

OK Rodney.

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Dave Plowman (News) 6 years ago

Not able to read headers either, then?

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