How to Choose Light Bulbs for an Architectural Project

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Walking into an electrical store can be intimidating. At first glance all the lights are on, and the thousands of chandeliers and lamps are blinding. When you walk toward the lamps, you see shelves with dozens of options, shapes, colors, prices, and uses. In each package, informational tables with numbers that seem to make no sense at all. Lumens, color temperature, wattage. There are so many confusing terms. But before you give up on everything and rush back with the cheapest option, turning the lamp on only for it to make your house or the house you designed feel like a sinister back-country funeral home, some basic information can help you a lot. We know that good lighting design can greatly improve a building or even its occupant's productivity. And poorly designed lighting can ruin it or negatively affect its occupants. To help out, we've gathered some information that can help you the next time a light bulb burns out in your home.

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Cite: Souza, Eduardo. "How to Choose Light Bulbs for an Architectural Project" [Que lâmpadas escolher para um projeto de arquitetura?] 26 Nov 2019. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/928655/how-to-choose-light-bulbs-for-an-architectural-project> ISSN 0719-8884

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