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Old 07-04-2017, 12:50 PM
 
Location: Northern Illinois
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Where can you purchase light bulbs that project a bluish color? I see a few houses with this style now, rather than white or amber-white colors. Who makes them? Are they available as LEDs?
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Old 07-04-2017, 12:58 PM
 
Location: Johns Creek, GA
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They probably are LED-
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Old 07-04-2017, 01:48 PM
 
Location: Home is Where You Park It
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White incandescents have a yellowish cast. LEDs are much closer to a true white, therefore an ordinary white LED looks bluer by comparison.
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Old 07-04-2017, 07:53 PM
 
Location: Floribama
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Why would you want bluish colored lighting? Exterior lighting is supposed to look warm and inviting, not cold and institutional.
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Old 07-04-2017, 08:01 PM
 
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Why would you want bluish colored lighting? Exterior lighting is supposed to look warm and inviting, not cold and institutional.
I don't like yellow lights either, they look wan and sickly not warm and inviting to me. Different strokes and all that.
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Old 07-05-2017, 08:18 AM
 
Location: Northern Illinois
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Why would you want bluish colored lighting? Exterior lighting is supposed to look warm and inviting, not cold and institutional.


Blue-white are more fitting to my house theme and neighborhood, modern Salt Box architecture with New England colors, plus the street lamps are white. Amber-white just gives too much of an old lady look imho, no offense to old ladies and their houses. I'm a younger man and would like something fitting with the theme of the neighborhood.
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Old 07-05-2017, 08:19 AM
 
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I don't like yellow lights either, they look wan and sickly not warm and inviting to me. Different strokes and all that.
Yep. Yellowish lights? Shudder.
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Old 07-06-2017, 12:25 PM
 
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Look for LEDs labeled "daylight" those will be more bluish, the yellower LEDs are usually "soft white."

Softwhite is recommended for bedrooms and reading lamps, and daylight for makeup mirrors/bathrooms and kitchens.
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Old 07-06-2017, 12:30 PM
 
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The big box home stores usually have excellent displays of outdoor lights, where you can compare the various hues.
We took in a board with a paint sample of our house trim when choosing ours.
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Old 07-06-2017, 05:13 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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It's the daylight LEDs or CFLs. It looks nice if you get your neighbors on board with the idea, so you don't have a row of houses with dingy yellow lights and then your house with the nice, crisp blue/white. Also, if your bulbs are the brightest, you get more bugs than everyone else.
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