Rob has two glass-door cabinets in his living room. A very nice way display things that are precious or are linked to good memories.
Apart from that in the evening, when the light in cabinets are turned on, it gives a very nice atmosphere to the room.
Somewhere last week one of the lamps stopped working. Rob had a look at it and he already made quickly the conclusion that it was not the lamp itself that was broken.
It was an halogen lamp and the power supply that belong to it was given the problem. So it had to be replaced, simple as that.
Asking about this lamp, it turned out that this kind of lamps are not sold as halogen any more. They are replaced by LED-lamps. Okay fine. But this simple meant that both lights in the cabinets had to be replaced. So yesterday Rob bought two complete set of the LED-lamps and today he placed those in the two cabinets. While he did the technical work, I cleaned al the glass of the cabinets.
The advantage of LED above halogen is that LED used less electricity and it produces a lot less heat. But LED used to be very cold and bright light, something you don’t want in your living room. But that has changed. LED light can now also be soft and warm of colour.
So now in the evening we can enjoy the view of the two cabinets again. Luckily the lights are not as bright as it shows on the photo, it much more softer and warmer. Maybe even better as it was before….
(Credit photo: Marion)
I always liked those cabinets in Rob’s living room. Still want something like that in my own apartment!
I am very happy with the result, but you forget to mention that it was quite some work to get all good in place. The shop may say a hundred times that these LED-lamp were specially made for these cabinets, I don’t believe that. They didn’t fit at all. It needs some tricks to get it all done in a good way.