On Feb 24, 4:51*pm, blackhead wrote:
I have a 40W fluorescent ring type for an 18x9 foot kitchen which is
nice and bright but perhaps a little OTT since I have an 11W energy
efficient bulb lighting a similar sized room, the down side being it's
very dim to start with.

So what do you use to power your kitchen?

20 x 35W Decostar 51 Halogens (50W equivalent)
4 x 20W Halogens (in the cooker hood)
3 x 35W Halogens (in an uplighter)
3M + 4M length of cold cathode (above the soffit)
All run of a Lutron 4 channel lighting controller

About 1.2KW in total although we never, ever have any of it on at full
brightness.

It looks stunning and is shadow free... I know a lot of people who
post here prefer frugality over design - but in my case, I would have
rather eaten a bag of rusty nails than put CFL's in...

http://gallery.mac.com/loopylup#100003

Excuse the clothes and tools... Must take some better pictures at some
point.

Steve