On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:24:16 -0800 (PST), stevelup
wrote:

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 agree it looks modern and designer (I guess the .mac bit in the
following link gave it away g) but (respectfully) with the dark
floors and work surfaces and units it doesn't look 'bright' as I
understand it? Maybe you don't have all the lights on and that's in
'mood' mode?

I know a lot of people who
post here prefer frugality over design -

Functionality (not necessarily the most frugal) over design here yes.
It's also a function of size / space. With a small kitchen like ours
we couldn't have any lighting above the units or we would lose
valuable storage space. We don't have a cooker hood because we have a
free standing gas stove with eye level grill (my eyes are 6' from the
ground, not in my pelvis) and with under-worktop dishwasher, fridge
and freezer in there isn't an awful lost of space for 'fancy'?

Plus if I had a kitchen like yours I would feel bad about
fiberglassing my motorcycle panels or our Daughter turning a school
design project in there! ;-)

but in my case, I would have
rather eaten a bag of rusty nails than put CFL's in...

CFL's maybe not, and I guess in *that* style of kitchen even FL's
might look out of place unless 'concealed' but then there goes a lot
of light again .. :-(

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

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

I can't see any tools or clothes, could you take some pictures with
the lights on please? I did expect to see a MacBook Air on the side
though? weg

All the best ..

T i m

It looks like nice work and equipment, do it all yourself Steve?