>>In our kitchen we have recessed indoor floodlights in the ceiling - they are florescents that look identical (we use them).
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>I'm talking like the spots or halogens, in wee rings set into the ceiling. Imagine them with twisty fluorescents dangling from them :-)

They now make the CFLs (the twisty ones) encased in more standard packages. We have a lot of floodlight-style lights in our house and as they burn out, we're replacing them with floodlight-style CFLs.

Tamar