This is something I'd wanted to do for many years before I came up with the idea for the goals list. I'd planned on having a room in the house filled with beautiful lights.

Most of this goal was filled with trying to find suitable lights. It was surprisingly difficult to find anything I liked - which was mainly along the lines of intricate patterns. The first light I found turned out to be very cheap and nasty (even cheaper and nastier than I thought possible), to the point where I had to assemble it by hand and found it impossible due to the poor quality of materials, instructions, and parts. Even if I'd assembled it, it would have continued to look cheap and nasty wherever I placed it.

The rest of what I found was either fairy lights, which weren't practical, or expensive heavy stage rigs where each light only did one specific (usually boring) thing, or tacky-looking cheap disco lights, which looked terrible. Eventually, however, when I wasn't specifically looking for lights (and thus wasn't drowned out by the miles of terrible-quality goods) I found a link to an LED lightbulb called Ilumi, which was perfect. The downside was that these bulbs were horribly expensive.

However, I bought six. They were app-controlled via Bluetooth, worked like a charm, were very user-friendly, and essentially everything I'd hoped for. Unfortunately, four of them broke a month after purchase due to some incompatibility with one particular lighting circuit in our house, so we had to go back to using the old bulbs. Luckily, Ilumi's customer service was great and sent out four replacement bulbs free of charge. They're still installed in our house but sadly can't be placed in the living room due to the faulty circuit. I'm waiting for us to move before we can use their full effect. At any rate, goal completed.This is something I'd wanted to do for many years before I came up with the idea for the goals list. I'd planned on having a room in the house filled with beautiful lights. Most of this goal was filled with trying to find suitable lights. It was surprisingly difficult to find anything I liked - which was mainly along the lines of intricate patterns. The first light I found turned out to be very cheap and nasty (even cheaper and nastier than I thought possible), to the point where I had to assemble it by hand and found it impossible due to the poor quality of materials, instructions, and parts. Even if I'd assembled it, it would have continued to look cheap and nasty wherever I placed it. The rest of what I found was either fairy lights, which weren't practical, or expensive heavy stage rigs where each light only did one specific (usually boring) thing, or tacky-looking cheap disco lights, which looked terrible. Eventually, however, when I wasn't specifically looking for lights (and thus wasn't drowned out by the miles of terrible-quality goods) I found a link to an LED lightbulb called Ilumi, which was perfect. The downside was that these bulbs were horribly expensive. However, I bought six. They were app-controlled via Bluetooth, worked like a charm, were very user-friendly, and essentially everything I'd hoped for. Unfortunately, four of them broke a month after purchase due to some incompatibility with one particular lighting circuit in our house, so we had to go back to using the old bulbs. Luckily, Ilumi's customer service was great and sent out four replacement bulbs free of charge. They're still installed in our house but sadly can't be placed in the living room due to the faulty circuit. I'm waiting for us to move before we can use their full effect. At any rate, goal completed.

Posted 8 years ago