I've always been a stickler about light high quality. It's just one of many (many) issues I'll happily blame on my decorator mom, who solely used pale pink incandescent bulbs in my bedroom as a kid. Naturally, that meant that the eventual transition to LEDs wasn't straightforward for me. After a period of hoarding incandescents (I do know, I know! I lastly decided to get on the energy-environment friendly prepare, and started testing out totally different kinds of LEDs. Inevitably, I'd be dissatisfied by the not-quite-proper mild they gave off-too cold, or vibrant, or dim, or just bizarre-and go in search of something higher. Then, few years in the past (and possibly in the midst of a way-too-deep dive into gentle bulb evaluations on Wirecutter or Shopper Studies), I ordered a pack of GE's Calm down LED bulbs on Amazon. I swapped them in for the bulbs in my living room lamps and was pleasantly surprised.

While most of the opposite warm-hued LEDs I might tried were both nonetheless too blue or overcompensated with a barely yellowish cast, the Reveal bulbs were a close to-dupe for traditional tender white incandescents-heat, but in a flattering, non-yellowy manner. Since then, they've become the only type of bulb I am going to use in my apartment. While GE recommends using them particularly in bedrooms, family rooms and dining rooms and saving the extra "energizing" Reveal bulbs for kitchens and baths, I use the Loosen up version actually everywhere. I imply, I need to be relaxed in the kitchen, too! So what makes the Reveal bulbs so good? To begin with, there's the shade temperature. The temperature of light is measured in kelvins