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Terrible Estate Agent Photos

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Terrible photos listed by estate agents/realtors that are so bad they’re funny.

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One of my design hang-ups is sunken ceiling spots. Personally, I would never fit them, although I can understand having them in a kitchen or bathroom. But this is just... something. No options for anything but searing white light. I can't even see any lamps in the bedroom.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

So, in the US, switching to dimmable lights is literally just changing the switch and making sure you have dimmable bulbs in the sockets. With LED lights, it's a little worse because different brands have different resistances and if all of the LED lights on a circuit aren't the same brand & model, they tend to flicker.

In that house, even as cheap as LED lights have become, changing all those out for dimmables (assuming they aren't already) would be expensive. There must be close to 100 in-ceiling lights in there; dimmable LEDs are around $4 here, so that's a budget of $500 just for the bulbs. The switches can be inexpensive, but say if you're going to do it, might as well get nice ones - that's $30 per switch, although you want only one dimmer per circuit, so you're looking at maybe 6? Another couple hundred, so maybe a napkin budget of $700. Maybe more if you need to replace other switches to match style and color, but toggle switches are dirt cheap.

Replacing the switches is easy; it'd take longer to swap out all of the ceiling bulbs.

Jesus, that's a lot of bulbs.