vitanola
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Sure, unless they're CFL Christmas lights.
People can cite all of the facts, figures, and science they want to. In my experience, in our home, I've concluded CFL bulbs simply do not light the room(s) as well as their incandescent counterparts. The CFL bulbs might produce more light, but that light sure doesn't disperse the same as the light produced by incandescent bulbs.
In some fixtures. In well designed fixtures, however, CFL lights work splendidly. They work particularly well in IES semi indirect reflectors as commonly found on 1930's and 1940's quality table and floor lamps. They also work well in satin opal hanging bowl semi-indirect fixtures, and in opal "schoolhouse" fixtures. Basically any of the fixtures promoted in 'Twenties, 'Thirties and 'Forties by GE, Westinghouse and the NELA in their "Better Light for Better Sight" campaign will adapt to the more efficient bulbs vey well indeed. Remember that there have been a tremendous number of pretty poorly designed light fixtures installed in American homes, particularly in the 'Eighties and 'Nineties. It seems to me that in those years resifpdential lighting design retreated to a level of primitivism which we have not seen since days of the Taft.
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