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The Power of Lighting: Warm Vs Cool Light Bulbs

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$100 Room Challenge· DIY Projects· Room Makeovers

25 Jan
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It is week 4 of the $100 Room Challenge and I’m going to keep it super simple and talk about one of the craziest changes we’ve made in this room… changing the light bulbs. You heard me right. The power of a $6 pack of light bulbs is going to blow your mind. I never really knew how drastically different a room could look with warm vs cool light bulbs until this challenge.

power of Changing Light Bulbs: Warm Vs Cool

Let’s cut right to the chase and talk about light bulbs. It seems so simple, but it made a huge impact in this room. The whole reason for changing the light bulbs was because the ones that were currently in the light fixture were casting a very yellow glow in the room. In order to brighten up the room, I thought I’d try switching out the yellowish lighting for something cooler. Check out the difference of warm vs cool light bulbs below.

*Please Note: The images below have not been altered except to resize them to fit this page.

Warm Light Bulbs

Bathroom showing the yellow light cast by regular light bulbs

Cool Light Bulbs

Bathroom after replacing light bulbs with cooler color light bulbs

Home Depot has these light bulbs in “Daylight” which casts a much cooler light.

Side-by-Side: Warm Vs Cool Light Bulbs

Side by side image of warm vs cool light bulbs in bathroom space

Isn’t that crazy?!

Other Accomplishments

  • We hung the new towel bar, towel ring, and toilet paper holder.
  • We framed the mirror (as you can see in the images above). Then I looked at it and couldn’t handle the size. I knew if I bought a new mirror, it was going to put me over budget, but I had to do it. It was going to work so much better in this space. You’ll see the new mirror on reveal day 🙂
  • We worked on the cabinet makeover.
  • My cousin did some awesome free-hand script writing that we framed and hung on the wall (another surprise for the reveal).

Here’s a sneak peek at the cabinet makeover thus far.

Before

Outdated Inlaid Cubby

Where We Are Currently

Inlaid Cabinet Makeover progress.

We put a hexagon tile removable wallpaper on the back and two sides, and then we added L-brackets to hold the shelves. We still need to trim one of the shelves and stain them, but at least you can see where we’re going with this project.

That’s all for this week, but make sure to come back for next week’s reveal! And check out what other participants are up to.

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  1. Emma Wilson says

    September 1, 2020 at 12:07 PM

    Great post! Some rooms I would prefer warm lights, like in the bedroom and living. I keep cool white to bathroom and kitchen areas.

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  2. Nicki Parrish says

    January 28, 2020 at 10:25 PM

    I am usually partial to warm lightbulbs, but sometimes in bathrooms the daylight just works better, such a huge difference!

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  3. Pamela says

    January 28, 2020 at 9:24 PM

    I have all blue light in my studio, it works so much better for the videos I create. Except for the boob lights that I want to replace. Quite the comparison showing how the “day” light bulbs make it so much prettier already.

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