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Those high bay LEDs look great, Even, but I agree they would be expensive. Anyway I was wandering through my local Bunnings on Friday evening - it's sad I know, but it's the best time to go there. I checlked out the flood lights just for the heck of it. Thgere was some sort of flood that...

No, it's not a house, but it's the top floor of a building attached to my house. I'm not a fan of cheap chandeliers - too many globes. So I can get gutsy i.e. bright, screw in halogens?

Those lights would be 50 years old. The dead globes that came out of them look like museum pieces - they're beautiful things. I've still got them, but they're dead - had them tested. And I don't have the ballast/controller for those lights - bought them years ago from a second hand joint. So...

HID? Good grief, not another variant to add into the mix. Bet you can't buy them at Bunnings or Woollies. The fittings originally had a huge globe. Beautiful incandescent thing - about 300mm long. Big screw in base. They needed a controller, apparently. And they were $80 per...

I liked it when there were fewer options Okay you lighting technicians, I've got a challenge for you. I need to light the space in the pic. The 'reno I should never have started' is up to the lighting stage. See that chain? It's now got a light fitting attached. And in the space beyond...

Part of the problem is that there are now so many different globe options out there and several different bases. Still, I'm set now with my candy stash.

Here's a solution: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/i-saw-the-light--barely-20100518-vc5m.html?comments=12#comments I saw the light - barely May 19, 2010 Comments 12 I HAD a light bulb moment the other day. One of those flashes of inspiration. It was while I was...