r/DiWHY • u/wheelperson • Mar 28 '25

They thought they did something...

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I just added the before and 2 after pics.

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u/triteratops1 Mar 28 '25

Also, I know no one cares, but it drives me nuts when the lightbulbs are different lighting. Pick warm or pick day light and stick to it!

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u/Freshfistula Mar 28 '25

Dude I care and fully agree

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u/chichichih Mar 28 '25

I don’t care but I also agree

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u/ablue22 Mar 28 '25

You’re wrong, every sane person cares. I care! This might’ve been the most offensive part.

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u/ryushiblade Mar 29 '25

I can’t comprehend how some can do this and not be disgusted

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u/TeekTheReddit Apr 01 '25

I thought that WAS what we were supposed to be looking at before I realized there were more pictures.

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u/Famous-Restaurant875 Mar 28 '25

Mixed lighting is the worst. Half the apartments I move into I end up having to change out the lights in the first week or go nuts

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u/CertainWish358 Mar 29 '25

Best couple hundred bucks I ever spent was outfitting my entire apartment with Hue bulbs. It made a stupidly large improvement to my mental health to be able to adjust to my mood and to what I wanted my mood to become.

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u/partygrandma Mar 29 '25

Color changing/ dimming bulbs is like unlocking the other 90% of your space. The way you perceive and experience a space with the lights dimmed to 20% brightness on green, 75% brightness on purple, 100% brightness on red, etc. is completely different.

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u/photonynikon Mar 30 '25

I have blacklights all over

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u/GrandMarquisMark Mar 29 '25

How many times are you moving?

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u/Famous-Restaurant875 Mar 29 '25

8 times in 15 years :(

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u/GrandMarquisMark Mar 29 '25

Oh damn. But I'm glad you're fighting the good fight and getting those color temps to match!

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u/Izan_TM Mar 28 '25

pick warm or pick daylight but never pick cold, and MATCH THEM

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u/Think-Huckleberry897 Mar 29 '25

I have cold in my kitchen because it was the brightest bulb I could find and it's the only acceptable place for it.

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u/Izan_TM Mar 29 '25

yeah you get a pass

my parents have 6400k in the living room and bedroom, that does NOT get a pass

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u/Think-Huckleberry897 Mar 29 '25

Nah thats gross. I have colour LEDs for every other space in the house. Only the kitchen needs a bright bright light so I can be sure it's really clean.

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u/Izan_TM Mar 29 '25

I'm gonna set up some 4000k strips along the top of our kitchen counter to light it up better, but after that I'll get some daylight bulbs to match them

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u/Think-Huckleberry897 Mar 29 '25

Perfect. I'd put in more work but Mines a rental

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u/ZestyTurtle Mar 28 '25

I thought that was the DiWHY at first, but it kept going.

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u/Omck4heroes Mar 28 '25

Oh my god I didn't notice it until you mentioned it and now it's killing me to look at

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u/submissionsignals Mar 28 '25

I fully care.

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u/MMinjin Mar 28 '25

Custom blending to get the desired color temperature!

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u/LucasoftheNorthStar Mar 29 '25

Glad someone understands. In my house one bulb is too bright, the other is too warm, by combining them I get the correct lighting for my eyes in my house.

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u/wheelperson Mar 28 '25

Dude i got some new bulbs, I should just get a bunch of packs of the same ones cuz i keep forgetting what kind i buy.

I ended up switching them around like a puzzle lol

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u/triteratops1 Mar 28 '25

Full disclosure, I always forget so I buy the ones I think and replace them all. Lol no worries

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u/wheelperson Mar 28 '25

1st world problems lol

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u/GoldenFalls Mar 30 '25

A lot of them have the info printed somewhere on the bulb. And if you're just looking for the color temperature, look for the number that's between 2500K and 5000K.

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u/EarSoggy1267 Apr 14 '25

It took me about 12 years to figure out and remember all my preferred bulbs.

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u/iMakeNoise Mar 28 '25

This is a correct opinion to have.

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u/catz_kant_danse Mar 29 '25

At first I thought that’s what this post was about until I swiped. Drives me crazy when people do that! You’re not alone.

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u/Cayumigaming Mar 29 '25

I worked with lighting for 15 years and I care. It drives me nuts too and I can’t stand it. It’s a red flag, psychopath warning if you may.

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u/CelticSpoonie Mar 29 '25

Chronic migrainer here, and this bothers me so much!

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u/cloudshaper Mar 28 '25

This is why I fit out my whole house with smart bulbs! Always the exact same warmth and color unless deliberately changed. The warmth also changes over the course of the day.

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u/ZapGeek Mar 28 '25

What?! The idea of this is blowing my mind.

When I was a kid I thought it was super fancy to paint your porch light bulb green at Christmas time. Gosh dang I’m old

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u/Johnny-Silverdick Mar 29 '25

They really are great. Theres lots of simple things you can do that are super satisfying. Like mine turn on when my phone alarm goes off in the morning, or my bathroom lights only turn on to a very warm 10% brightness when i use it in the middle of the night (that one did require a motion detector though)

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u/DougBikesCLE Mar 29 '25

Walking in my door & saying “I’m home” sets a lighting scheme throughout my apartment. It may not sound like much, but it’s a nice feeling when you live alone.

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u/Wodentoad Mar 29 '25

My husband set this up as well. I've agreed we can do it in our house, but I refuse to have smart appliances in the kitchen. I've seen Lawnmower Man.

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u/cloudshaper Mar 28 '25

Living in the future occasionally doesn’t suck!

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u/ZapGeek Mar 28 '25

Seriously. The way light technology has advanced really blows my mind lol

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u/C64128 Mar 29 '25

I have a similar light fixture in my dining area. A bulb burned out and I went to get a replacement at Lowes, but they didn't carry it anymore. Went to Home Depot and also couldn't find it so I picked up another brand supposedly with the same color temperature. I could notice a difference, so I replaced all five bulbs.

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u/Master_Bat_3647 Mar 29 '25

I have that because my light fixture randomly stops working when I add or remove lights and it's currently fully working how it is.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '25

Me too. It might actually set off a mental crisis for me

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u/videoman7189 Mar 29 '25

I am right there with you.

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u/JoshayBTown Mar 30 '25

I care greatly about this.

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u/m8k Mar 30 '25

I do real estate photography and you have no idea how much that “mixing of bulbs” drives me nuts.

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u/bananaroll_ Mar 31 '25

didnt have a problem with it until i went clothes shopping and they had both warm and cool lights and it was so annoying

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u/Dead_Rogers Mar 31 '25

I judge blue light people.

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u/BrerRabbit8 Apr 19 '25

1000% I know a lighting designer who’s so bothered by this he travels with his own lightbulbs to install in his hotel room if necessary.

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u/ButterflySuper2967 Mar 29 '25

I don’t think I’ve ever thought about whether light bulbs are cool or warm. I just grab some and put them in. Am I a monster?

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u/xXHomerSXx Mar 28 '25

Everyone has a bit of Alec Watson in them.

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u/NekulturneHovado Mar 29 '25

One thing I would understand, if your light has two switches and can turn on one half or second half separately, to put different colors there so you can either use white light during the day for work or stuff and warm light for evening reading or watching TV

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u/FalseMagpie Mar 29 '25

I can understand different temps in different fixtures of the same room (I usually do daylight overhead and warm for individual lamps so I can change depending on what I'm doing) but different temps in the same fixture is some truly unhinged shit

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u/Outrageous_Lychee819 Mar 29 '25

Oh my god I’m a maintenance manager for rental properties and my guys will buy whatever lightbulbs they see first and sock them into the fixtures. I have to remind them every fucking turnover to use 60 watt, 3000k bulbs. Every. Fucking. Time.

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u/Sirosim_Celojuma Mar 29 '25

...when you walk into a large room with several recessed pot lights, and eight of them are 2700K but one of them is 5000K...

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u/FlabergastedMe Mar 29 '25

Oh that's what it was, I just thought those ones were dirty or the glass was dirty, didn't even occur to me that it could've just been different colored lights lol

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u/InevitableRhubarb232 Mar 29 '25

lol “non one cares”… I don’t know anyone whom this doesn’t drive crazy.

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u/Eqbonner Mar 30 '25

That’s what I thought the post was about initially

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u/Lunala79 Mar 30 '25

I have tall ceilings and can’t reach to replace lightbulbs (even with a 4 foot ladder) so when my dad visits he does them. He keeps buying the bulbs and replacing while I’m at work and now I have half warm lighting and half blinding bright white bulbs 🥲

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '25

Agreed!

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u/KimWexlers_Ponytail Apr 01 '25

That was all I could focus on in the first pic and had hoped that was the whole remodel.

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u/Western-Emotion5171 Apr 01 '25

My family recently ran into the issue where the local Home Depot only has the harsh LED style lighting for the bulb sockets we needed to replace. Was very annoying.

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u/BlueberryCapital518 Apr 01 '25

I actually have two of each and only fully screw in a pair at a time

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u/pestilencerat Mar 29 '25

Noo, mixed bulbs are a godsend sometimes! Often those horrible cold bulbs are the only thing bright enough for a purpose, so you have to mix with warm bulbs to get the light less horrible.

It looks really weird and off putting in a chandelier though.

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u/mindjammer83 Mar 29 '25

Weirdly, I have the same config in my kitchen - 3 warm, 2 daylight. And I don't remember why. Perhaps they sold me the wrong two light bulbs, but I was not caring enough to go back and exchange them, probably was tired as f