LEDs. I’m sold. Being a manager of an apt complex, I convinced the owner to switch all of the outside lighting to LEDs. This relieved my bulb changing chores considerably- as in its non-existant.
LEDs for us, too. The local energy conservation agency came to the house after we bought it and replaced all of the incandescent can lighting with CFLs (for free). We never like them because of warm-up time and color, so rarely used them. I decided to replace them all with LED lamps, but didn’t want to pay $20 per replacement module. As luck would have it, the local True Value struck a deal with the same energy agency to sell the lights for $5 each in order to persuade people to buy them. $75 instead of $300? Oh, hell yes.
If anyone is thinking of buying LEDs for table lamps, I highly recommend Cree bulbs. They’re not cheap, but they’re made in the USA and are of far higher quality than the crap coming out of China.
Incandescent in dimmable fixtures, CFL in all others. I understand that some LED dimmable bulbs have come a long way but not all dim smoothly, quietly and without flicker. When I find one that does, I’ll start putting them in the dimmer fixtures.
Gradually replacing all the incandescents with LEDs. I refuse to let the evil CFLs into my home.
And I am NOT switching to LEDs because they are more efficient. They probably are, but so what? The portion of my electricity bill that fueled my light bulbs was trivial already. I’m switching because the few incandescents that they are still making are crap and don’t last as long as they used to. I mean, like two months of service! I don’t have time for that.
Roughly 47% LED, 26% CFL, 22% Halogen and 4% incandescent.
For the most part the rooms we spend a lot of time in are LED lit, the rooms that we don’t spend so much time in are CFL. I actually went through and replaced the CFLs in most of those rooms with LED bulbs, because I freaking hate the warm-up time when the light is dim, and even “instant on” CFLs are glacially slow in that regard compared with LED bulbs.
The halogen bulbs are either external security lighting that hasn’t yet burned out since we bought the house, or is what the contractor put in our recent bathroom renovation- we didn’t think of specifying LED bulbs when we were specifying everything else. I figure as they burn out, I’ll replace them with LED bulbs.
One decorative fixture in a less frequently used bathroom has clear incandescent bulbs. As they burn out, I’ll replace them with decorative LED or CFL bulbs as well. (prob CFL, if there’s still a significant price difference by then)
LED’s. The majority of the lighting in our house is canned lights with BR30 bulbs. Prior to switching to LED’s I was changing the incandescents about every 3 months. Since switching to the LED’s about 18 months ago, I have only had to change one bulb, that was defective.
Every single bulb I can find has been changed to LED. That includes the refrigerator bulbs!
We’ve been all CFL for a while now. When a porch fixture needed upgraded, I went to LED.
Mostly incandescent. Unfortunately, most of our lights are in overhead fixtures that I am afraid will fry LEDs or in small lamps that do not take the LEDs I’ve seen. Would love to switch, but I am not about to change all those fixtures.
I’m all LED lighting, and I love it. They produce no real heat, they’re instant, they last a long time and they’ve gotten more affordable, lately.
I had one light go out the other day, but knowing I wasn’t anywhere near the number of service hours, it was very easy to get a free replacement.
If you can make it work, I’d switch, or if it works better, gradually phase them in as the old ones go.
100% incandescent other than limited fluorescent for work lights. We seem to have quite a stockpile and they seem to burn out infrequently, so I don’t see changing anytime soon.
I’m the idiot who will have the entire house dark except for the one light I need, so the electricity used is way less than the cost/hassle of converting.
We are mostly LED, including a number of purposed-specific LED fixtures, with a few CFLs that I’m waiting to burn out to replace.
We do have a chandelier that is still using incandescents, since my wife didn’t like the dimmability of the CFLs we tried in it years ago. We almost never use it, so it can stay as-is forever.
You should do the maths. I switched to LEDs and they pay for themselves in about 6 months. I also took the opportunity to standardise my light bulbs. I now have just one type which makes replacing failures much easier - not that I’ve had any.
The Cree bulbs I linked to above dim just fine.
Hari Seldon: Those same bulbs are the same size as incandescent bulbs.
Incandescent. We’re not switching, either.
Oh yeah - there’s one fluorescent in the garage.
One thing I need to stop doing is picking up LED bulbs I don’t need that are on clearance. I have like 5 4 bulb packs of Cree 40Watt LEDS. But I don’t want 40 watts(well equivalent, but you know what I mean) in many places. But when they are $1.50 or less for Cree LEDs it’s hard to pass up.
All CFL other than a couple of LED night lights, four incandescents (two per bathroom), and the incandescent in the fridge.
Those bathroom lights are nearly 20 years old.
Oh, and there’s a light in oven but I’ve never bothered to look at it. Likely another incandescent.
I don’t know what sort of overhead fixtures you’re referring to, but I replaced the incandescent bulbs in the recessed ceiling lights in my parents’ kitchen with LED bulbs that are OK for use in overhead fixtures (so they won’t get fried) and are dimmable. I like the light much better.
I can easily afford what I currently pay for electricity. I have extremely little interest in going through the effort to decide what bulbs are available where that emit the spectrum of light I prefer and look good in the fixtures I have throughout my home. Meanwhile, I’ll save the world another way - maybe forgo a plane trip somewhere…
Just saying, as I figure out how to live responsibly in an increasingly complex world, this is darned low on my list of priorities.