LED spotlights are a fantastic combination of form and function that really deliver great results when it comes to lighting your home.

Traditionally, spotlights have been associated with commercial settings such as theatre and stage lighting, but also for clubs, bars, restaurants or retail outlets.

Super LED Lights For Your Home

Nowadays, however, more and more purely domestic customers are beginning to realise that they’ll be able to achieve similar, equally stylish results in their homes.

It doesn’t take an interior designer to tell you why LED spotlight fittings are great for the home.

They’re incredibly versatile and available in a wide variety of styles and finishes, all of which will definitely complement either a traditional or modern form of decor.

A Huge Number Of Choices

Great for installing either on a wall or a ceiling, you’ll be able to achieve some excellent, effective feature or accent lighting that will create a really wonderful ambience in your room.

For relatively intimate features or spaces, perhaps in a small living or dining room, you’ll want to go for a spotlight fitting that has sufficient range to cover the area. Thus, there are single spotlights, 3-way and quad fittings that should provide a perfect spread of light.

For more expansive installations, the larger 6-way and 8-way spotlight fittings can be positioned in a way that will suffuse your feature in a wash of LED light, their adjustable heads being perfect to maximise the wide range of beam angles of the GU10 LED bulbs with which so many of them are compatible.

Bulb Compatibility

From the 45° of the 4 watt GU10 LED to the very wide 120° beam angle, there’ll be an option that’s perfect for your purposes.

GU10s, along with the MR16-based spotlight bulbs are available in many types that will enable you to choose different wattages, as well as two and very often three colour temperatures.

Tailor Your Ambience

The temperature of light you decide upon will largely depend on the character or type of space you wish to illuminate, however, you can also choose one that will emphasise and augment the nature of the area.

For example, a dimmable bulb such as the GU10 LED 7 Watt COB in a warm white (3000K) might be your best bet for living spaces like the lounge or the bedroom, as its light will be mellow and relaxing.

People have traditionally chosen the daylight white (4000K) for their office spaces, its light being very naturalistic and conducive to close work.

Functional rooms like the bathroom or kitchen, requiring a bright, sterile light quality, are best suited to a non-dimmable bulb such as the GU10 3.3 Watt LED 80 SMD in the cool white (6000K) colour, however, these are all just suggestions and you’re free to use your imagination!

Energy-Efficient & Eco-Friendly

When you realise that LED spotlight bulbs are incredibly energy-efficient and eco-friendly, you’ll definitely want to switch to them from your traditional, wasteful spotlight bulbs.

LED bulbs are, on average up to 90% more energy-efficient than their incandescent and CFL (Compact Fluorescent Light) counterparts, requiring only a tiny amount of electricity to produce a similar number of lumens.

If you were to replace just 10 of your traditional 50 watt incandescent light bulbs with the equivalent 3.3 watt GU10 bulb mentioned earlier, you’d spend £229.95 on electricity to power the incandescent as opposed to a mere £15.18 on the LEDS.

That’s a saving of £214.77 per year!

Traditional bulbs produce an incredible amount of heat as a by-product of their light, and this is simply lost, adversely affecting the longevity of the bulb in the process.

LED bulbs produce very little or no heat, and have an expected lifespan of 50,000 hours as a result. This means that LEDs will still be producing light in over 17 years, in comparison with the incandescent bulb which will need to be replaced several times every year.

Thus, there are considerable savings to be made simply by switching your light source to LED.

Add in the environmental factors, such as the fact that unlike some traditional bulbs, LEDs contain no toxic chemicals like Mercury, and that they’re manufactured using 100% recyclable materials, and it really becomes a no-brainer when you’re considering which type of bulb to go for!