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June 16th, 2010
Country Living House of the Year lit with Cree LED lights
If you think a two-story house with shutters and a wrap-around-porch looks a little out-of-place nestled between the skyscrapers and marina in New York City’s World Financial Center, you’re not crazy. The Country Living 2010 House of the Year was airlifted in to show Manhattan what a high-end, well-built green home could look like.
The Country Living House of the Year as it's being set up in Manhattan.
The historically-inspired green modular home is on display through Thursday, so you can see for yourself how a home can consume 50 percent less energy and save thousands of gallons of water a year compared to a standard code-built house, according to Country Living.
Among the ways this home is saving energy is through the use of energy-efficient Cree LED lighting. Cree provided our LR6™LED downlights for this year’s Country Living House of the Year to demonstrate the beautiful light quality and major energy savings that can be achieved through the use of LED lighting.
We constantly hear from skeptics that LED lighting isn’t ready to light your home. But that’s simply not the case, and we’re glad that the Country Living home in Manhattan (of all places) will be yet another public demonstration of LED lighting.
The LR6 downlights that are in the house consume only 10.5 Watts of energy and are designed to last 50,000 hours. That means the lights in this house could stay on for 8 hours a day and run more than 17 years. Could you imagine not changing a light bulb for 17 years? What’s more is at the 50,000 hour mark, these LED lights shouldn’t just burn out. Instead Cree’s LED lights are designed to provide at least 70 percent of their initial light output at the 50,000 hour mark. So, depending on your lighting needs, you could still be using them 50,000 hours later.
If you would like some LR6 LED recessed lights of your own, you can try to win our monthly photo contest. Each month we giveaway five Cree LR6 downlights to one lucky winner. Just submit a photo of bad lighting in your home or office to qualify for the June contest.
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