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Here's a delightful selection of light fixtures from Lightcraft, my favorite lighting outlet in Singapore!

Aside from the beautiful and wide collection of designer fixtures, I like the store because it regularly updates its designs and prices them reasonably to meet all budgets.

Beautiful, dazzling, brilliant light!



More importantly, Lightcraft labels its light fixtures in an open and transparent manner, unlike some stores in Balestier or Jalan Besar where the price for a particular light fitting you fancy changes each time you visit the store, depending on who is attending to you!!

I had visited a lighting outlet at Jalan Besar a week before LNY, and saw a ceiling fixture that I liked very much. The fixture had multi-colored LED bulbs and halogen

bulbs operated by remote control. Using the RC, you could turn on all the halogen bulbs, or turn off half of them to reduce the brightness, or shut them down completely, leaving only the multi-colored LEDs on. You could also turn off the LEDs if you prefer, leaving the room lighted by the halogen bulbs.

Very convenient to change the mood and ambience of the room instantly!

When I enquired of the pricing, the guy who attended to me quoted a figure in the low $200s.

After LNY I returned to the store and asked the salesman there (the one who had attended to me was not in the store) the price of the same fixture, and was quoted S$490 for the light !! When I showed interest, he quickly lowered the price to $390. Sheeesh! What a rip-off !!

Naturally I left the store without buying anything!

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Beautiful awesome lights!

I love LED lights!

Stunning LED Wall Light @ S$151.50 each

LED lights are just coming into vogue and already LED bulbs for general room lighting have started to make an appearance, though they are by no means mainstream yet.

LED represents the future of lighting, as oil price remains high at over US$100 per barrel for the rest of the decade, and very likely beyond.

Running on very low power -- usually one-tenth of a 40W normal bulb -- the Ikea Dioder lights pay for themselves within a year of usage! Obviously as oil price shoots higher, the payback period becomes shorter.

And do you know LED lights have a lifespan of 100,000 hours? That is about 11 years of continuous lighting!!

Attractive Ikea Dioder Light: 4-pc set@S$79

Although strictly still not comparable in brightness or luminance to CFLs, I think

it will only be a matter of time before LEDs attain (and probably surpass, since they are based on electronics) the brightness of CFLs.

Beautiful LED wall light with interesting light pattern, up & down light, priced @S$105.50 nett

One use I can imagine for LED lights is "switch-on-and-forget-it" or "convenience" lighting. That is, I can switch on the LED lights in the kitchen, bathroom or toilet when dusk falls and leave them on without the need to turn off-on as family members enter/leave the kitchen. Or use them as night light for the kids.

Latest: Remote-controlled Dining Lamp

Home automation has been around for quite some time but only this year has remote-controlled lighting started to appear in retail outlets. The above-pictured

Lightcraft dining lamp was launched only in mid-Mar 08. It is equipped with 1 x GU10 50W halogen bulb and 6 x R7S 100W bulbs. The latter are specialized halogen bulbs with double ends and burn very brightly.

The included remote allows you to control the fixture in several ways: 1 - 50W halogen downlight, excellent for food presentation at the dining table, 2 - Three R7S bulbs light up, casting a wide circle of light over dining table, 3 - Three R7S bulbs light up to throw light on the ceiling, and 4 - All bulbs light up.

You can also combine the various lights e.g. halogen downlight with ceiling uplight, or wide dining table light with ceiling uplight, etc.

Though I vowed never to buy light fittings that require specialized bulbs (read = bad experience), I couldn't resist the technological allure, so placed an immediate order for a set.

And the price? S$253.50 per set.

This one will set you back quite a bit..

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