the LED DILEMMA
I had tried just about every LED bulb available online for my 1910 dining-room shower fixture—but none, not even the filament-style Edison bulbs, looked soft and inviting when dimmed. When fully illuminated, the bulbs produced glare. Bulbs with the same color temperature—the so-called “warm” 2700 Kelvin—looked blue or grey when lit. Worse, they weren’t the same color of blue or grey, something quite noticeable in a multi-lamp shower fixture with glass shades. Some bulbs buzzed when dimmed. Replacing the bulb that buzzed often meant that the new bulb flickered while the others didn’t.
Fed up, I headed to
