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Inspiration: Packaging As Lightshade

The cool thing (pardon the pun) about CFLand fluorescent bulbs are their relative lower operating temperature. You can touch a CFL/bulbs without endangering yourself a burn, and the bulbs operate at a...

Look! What to Do With Old Light Bulbs

You've been making a conscious effort to replace your blown incandescent bulbs with their more efficient CFL cousins but find yourself with a collection of bulbs you'd rather reuse than just throw out...

Earthmate Recessed and Candle CFL Bulbs

I've got this funny quirk: whenever I see a blown out light bulb, I'm driven by a near obsessive desire to replace it with a new bulb...even when I'm at someone else's home. It works out in the end: I...

One More Bare Lightbulb Solution: Bulbcap

Looks like Laure found a happy ending for her bare light bulb challenge, updating and upscaling her ceiling with a Lunette Clip-On Shade from Relish. If you're looking for something less substantial, ...

LA Good Question: A Shade for this Bare Bulb?

Gregory's Post on Swag Lamps reminded us of the little situation we have in the kitchen. The above photo is the lighting in the kitchen. Yeah, pretty depressing. We were hoping that Gregory's other...

The Smallest CFL Bulb: Sylvania's 13-watt Micro Mini Twist

We've still got a few lights in our house that we haven't switched over to CFL bulbs yet because of size requirements. A couple lights in our apartment use candelabra sized bulbs, and even the smaller...