Legrand Adorne has a nice looking under-cabinet modular power and lighting system for kitchens.
It took me a little thought a few months ago to realize this sort of thing could not work in bathroom (and why I got compact 8 outlet strip instead). Bathrooms don't have endless "under cabinet" space. The front is largely (and in my bathroom it's mostly) covered with a mirror, with a ceramic backsplash below that. Then there's the toilet and shower/bath. Then there's the blank wall in back where outlets are useless. Meanwhile, all of the bathroom gadgets are concentrated right next to the sink, and therefore you need a cluster of outlets right there, not spaced around the wall as in kitchen modular power systems. There's a limited amount of wallspace you can use for a decent number of outlets. Nowadays bathrooms (and especially mine) are defined by lots of electric gadgets: electric toothbrush, electric shaver, water pik, hair dryer.
But for a Kitchen, the modular system looks interesting.
I need a nicer looking sconce for next to the front door. It needs to provide lots of light, though nowadays that can be done with a single 100W equivalent LED bulb (if wet rated). Here's something that looks interesting from Maxim's Canterbury collection. I think the requirements are: should take a single medium base bulb, should have seedy or other irregular glass but not deeply tinted glass. Unlike the front of the garage, there is plenty of space to consider all sconce options.
It took me a little thought a few months ago to realize this sort of thing could not work in bathroom (and why I got compact 8 outlet strip instead). Bathrooms don't have endless "under cabinet" space. The front is largely (and in my bathroom it's mostly) covered with a mirror, with a ceramic backsplash below that. Then there's the toilet and shower/bath. Then there's the blank wall in back where outlets are useless. Meanwhile, all of the bathroom gadgets are concentrated right next to the sink, and therefore you need a cluster of outlets right there, not spaced around the wall as in kitchen modular power systems. There's a limited amount of wallspace you can use for a decent number of outlets. Nowadays bathrooms (and especially mine) are defined by lots of electric gadgets: electric toothbrush, electric shaver, water pik, hair dryer.
But for a Kitchen, the modular system looks interesting.
I need a nicer looking sconce for next to the front door. It needs to provide lots of light, though nowadays that can be done with a single 100W equivalent LED bulb (if wet rated). Here's something that looks interesting from Maxim's Canterbury collection. I think the requirements are: should take a single medium base bulb, should have seedy or other irregular glass but not deeply tinted glass. Unlike the front of the garage, there is plenty of space to consider all sconce options.
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