We need to change our outdoor lighting fixtures
When we bought this house we knew that three of the outdoor wall-mounted lights were in bad repair and need to be replaced soon. Lately my wife has been on a huge “save energy” kick and wants to put in those socket adapters that are photo-sensitive and don’t turn on if it is light out. She’s been noticing that almost every day when she goes outside that at least one of the outdoor lights is turned on even if it is light out.
She bought some of those socket adapters, but once they are screwed into the socket and the light bulb is added, the globe to the light fixture is too small to go back on, so we can’t use the socket adapter. She has also been buying those CFL light bulbs for every light she can possibly put them in. She’s also very unhappy that some of the outdoor light fixtures won’t accommodate the larger CFL bulbs. She bought some CFL yellow bug lights to install in the outdoor light fixtures, and we can’t use them because they are too long for the globes. So, she wants to buy new outdoor lighting fixtures that will replace the lights that are in bad repair and will accommodate both the photo-sensitive adapters and the CFL bulbs.
I’ve been looking for new outdoor lighting fixtures at the local stores and just can’t find what we need. It doesn’t help that we live out in the boonies! Not a lot of local stores to choose from. I’ve found quite a few possibilities on the Internet that I am going to show my wife and see if any of them pique her interest. I know we are going to want something that is extra tall globe, and we are going to want the globe to be frosted because we don’t want to buy decorator bulbs, we want to use the CFL bulbs (which are ugly!)
Anyway, I’ve bookmarked these sites from the www.farreys.com website for her to look at lights from these outdoor lighting collections: Fine Art lamps, Forecast lighting, Maxim lighting, Kichler lighting, and Quoizel lighting. All of those have some outdoor lighting fixtures that I think would fit the bill!