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Puckdropper

Ed Pawlowski wrote in
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On 8/31/2020 3:01 PM, wrote:
On Monday, August 31, 2020 at 3:20:54 AM UTC-5, Puckdropper wrote:
Got some new lights wired up in the garage. I show them to my wife
as I'm thinking of buying more for the basement, and she says "you
can't have nicer lights in the garage than I have in my living
room."

Now she's encouraging me to buy more lights so I can brighten up the
living room. I sure didn't expect that. :-)

Puckdropper

I'm guessing your wife said "nicer lights in the garage" because they
are BRIGHTER than the ones in the living room. Not really because
they are fancier or more elegant or whatever. I bet if you put up 25
of those single bulb basement lights and had a 100 watt bulb in each,
she would still say they are nicer in your garage than your living
room because they are so bright. If you don't want to put new
lights, brighter lights, in the living room, you could put really dim
bad bulbs in the garage lights. Show her how unbright they are.
Then in a month or so she will forget about it and you can put the
good bright bulbs back in.

That is a possibility. Bright in the living room is not better
though. Reading lights or a warm light while watching TV makes more
sense. I'd find out for sure what she wants before changing things.

Good point. I wonder if I can temporarily mount a fixture somehow to see
how the lights will look when on. We desperately need more light in the
room, but I'm not sure how much. If I do two fixtures, I'll split the
room in half but if I do 4 fixtures I'll have to split it into 3rds.

Puckdropper