Lighting: Search and Destroy

Thanks for reminding me that I have to look for floor-lamps after work. Yes, it is a miserable chore because I don't know where to go. Maybe I should shop online but I'm sick of having a dark livingroom. The store I was relying on has closed down.

I am very fussy about lamps. I don't especially like mainstream American (European?) lamps, the kind with the cloth lamp-shades.

Some of these looks nice. I guess I should read the thread.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 2 June 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

a steal at only $750-

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

oooh thanks for the mathmos link!

http://www.lamf.com/images/group/Shirt_Lamp_big.jpg

I have one of these in blue.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.homeportfolio.com/1790/15664/90.jpg

I have one of theses.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 2 June 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.universalgrilleband.com/Official_Calendar/Cheri_Arms_Up_Lava_Lamp.jpg

― chrisco (chrisco), Thursday, 3 June 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I am seriously in love with the perfect quality of light from the halogen lamp in my office. The lamp itself has a lamentable lack of style, but after working under incandescents, and way worse, flourescents, it is beautiful. Much less eyestrain.

Also, dimmers, people. I have put dimmers on many of the wall switches in my living space. Ambience.

― Hunter (Hunter), Thursday, 3 June 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

nine years pass...

I want to start experimenting with low-pressure sodium lamps but I don't know where to begin. I know I need a bulb. What sort of fixture do I get? Do I need a ballast? What do I do with it?

― crüt, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 02:39 (eleven years ago)

not for normal lighting purposes obviously. it's just a project.

― crüt, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 02:40 (eleven years ago)

further research indicates i will probably cause a fire if i don't do this right so maybe i should start smaller

― crüt, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 03:11 (eleven years ago)

still obsessed with luxo task lamps

http://www.trishhunterfinds.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/vintage-yellow-luxo-lamp-planet-style-1.jpg

― the late great, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 03:15 (eleven years ago)

six years pass...

I appreciate LED lighting is a good option for your house because it takes a lot of strain off the grid in in KWH and lasts for years. But I hate LED street lamps and miss the old fashioned sodium ones with the yellow glow that used to have a pink colour whilst they warm up in the evening dusk. And also in converting to LED they seem to have done it as cheap as possible in my area where there seems to be just one bolt holding the new LED bulkhead onto the top of the old lamppost.

I once saw a driver skid into a lamppost after a hail stone storm and the LED bulkhead fell off the post and luckily glanced off the driver side of the windscreen just cracking it, which would have certainly killed the driver if it had shattered.

just waving a stick at clouds, I know!

― calzino, Sunday, 7 June 2020 23:31 (five years ago)

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