>>>>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 :-)
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>>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.
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>Aren't those going to be required in a year or two? No complaints from me based on what I have read about them and experienced personally so far.
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To be accurate, incandescent bulbs are going away. I sure hope they come up with replacements for all the chandelier-base bulbs by then; my house is full of them. Also, we need a solution for dimmers and for 3-way bulbs.

Tamar