While your kitchen might have been the hippest on the block when it was first installed, it’s fluorescent lighting is no longer having the same impact. Instead the response it creates is probably all too reminiscent of standing inline inside a fast food restaurant, or worse of the ambience in a store dressing room. Neither is a good thing, and one can actually seem traumatic depending on how extreme it is.

If you are still living with the trendy fluorescent lighting in your kitchen from the seventies get rid of it. Once you do, I guarantee you will see things in a much better light…pun intended for once. And what are you going to put up in its place, aside from energy efficient bulbs in new fixtures? Spend a few extra bucks on dimmer switches. Those controls are no longer limited to use in the other rooms of a house, the kitchen can really benefit from it too. Plus, it is another environmentally friendly options you should embrace now that you have the chance.