Question to all the Electricians here...

Go for it.......

I'd suggest a track light there...you could put several heads on it and adjust/target both work space and artwork....

Don't go crazy with lamping but PAR lamps offer great control and 40W to 60W each is a lot of 'punch' on targets.....

 

You are meaning replacing incandescent with one of the spiral fluorescent?

You may not see much actual improvement in light output..........

 

There is nothing unsafe about it. Compact flo's are only about 14 watt's

 

Don't look at Watts, look at Lumens, that's how they gauge how much light actually is emitted. It's printed on every bulb package.

 

Look at watt's. The fixture can only dissapate the heat from a 60 watt or lower lamp (bulb). You can put anything you want in there as long as it does'nt total more than 60 watts. You can put as many as four 14 watters in there if you want. Put in 2 compacts and you double the light and still pay for half the power as a 60 watter. They are getting 10000 hours out of them now.

 

Then how do you explain a 14 watt fluorescent bulb putting out about as much light as a 60 watt incandescent bulb ?
Yes, you look at wattage so you don't overheat the fixture, but I thought we were also looking at the amount of actual light one gives off ?

 

Watts is the measurement of energy used by the light bulb. Lumens is the measured light output. A fluorescent bulb is more energy efficient than an incandescent bulb, it uses less energy to produce the same amount of lumens. So in the 14/60 case above, it takes 4 times the energy to produce the same amount of lumens in a incandescent bulb. Where's this extra energy going? Heat.

I believe most people don't look at the lumens. We are conditioned that 100 watts is brighter than 75, 75 is brighter than 60, et al.

OP, there should be no problems installing a CFL that is the equivalent of a 100 watt incandescent bulb, as long as the CFL itself uses 60 watts or less. Look at the packaging, it should tell you.

Or go a different route, get a flat screen tv to add more ambient lighting!

 

Flo's will always out perform incandescent in lumans watt for watt. 2 - 14's and the room will be lit up like a stadium.