You Asked: Alternative to the Dreaded “Boob Light”

A pox on all our houses- the dreaded boob light is a contractor favorite, especially during the late 90’s/ early aughts and it’s time to get rid of them! Cheap and efficient but ugly and unnecessary today as there are so many alternatives. A slew of you asked me for alternatives to these as it can be overwhelming when needing to replace a bunch of them in a single residence. A few rules of thumb:

• smaller sizes ones in a hallway or closet can be replaced with schoohouse type fixtures or smaller semi-flush lights.
• If there is a single light in the center of a bedroom, look at wider style flushmounts or perhaps a semi-flush mount if the light will fall over a bed and you can maintain head clearance.
• In a larger room, look even further away from a flushmount and try a wide hanging fixture on a short stem like the two below. We also have hung wide armed chandeliers on a single chain ring close tot he ceiling to make a bigger statement.

Click images below for links to all these alternatives- ranging price greatly, but all better looking than the $25 boob (no shade to boobs themselves, they are great).

• last fixture is not hyperlinked, click here.

• Photos Jessica Delaney and Michael J. Lee