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hey I'm seen that's right Crist the IKEA lad are a line of LEDs is growing in one of the newest additions is this 1000 lumen bulb you can get n ideas right now for 11 bucks now a thousand Newman's is kind of an odd number that's a lot brighter than most 60 watt replacements like these over here those are about 800 lumens but not quite as bright as the 75 watt replacement level where it's usually about 1,100 lumens that you're getting so this bulb is kind of in the middle it's brighter than these 60 watt replacements but not as affordable and not as efficient and it's cheaper than these 75 watt replacements but not quite as bright so it all comes down to whether or not you're comfortable in that middle ground if you are I think you'll enjoy the outstanding color quality that this bulb offers the CRI score the color rendering index measures how good a given light source is at making colors like vivid and true so a good CRI score when that's up in the 90s or close to 100 will make your reds look red your whites look white all of your colors just kind of pop a little better and see what I mean take a look at this bowl of M&Ms now this is a multicolored bowl of M&Ms a white bowl we kind of get a little bit of everything in this picture here we have the cree 75 watt replacement a very typical LED with a CRI score of 80 you can see the bowl looks a little yellow e some of the red and orange M&Ms are a little dull overall it's fine but not ideal now let's upgrade to the IKEA light you see the bowl instantly looks a lot more white the Reds pop a little better the oranges look good everything looks just a little more vivid and that's what you're getting with this light a subtle uptick and color quality now where might you want that well a kitchen makes a lot of sense if you're cooking food bright colored vegetables you want it to look good maybe a walk-in closet where you want your clothing to look accurate or maybe if you just painted your living room read all those scenarios make sense for a bulb like this now the bulb shines at 2700 K so it's a nice yellowy familiar incandescent light tone uses 13 watts to put out those 1,000 lumens for an efficiency rating of 74 lumens per watt now that's not great all of these bulbs are better than that most bulbs today are at least 75 lumens a lot if not closer to a hundred so if you are an efficiency hound it's probably not the bulb for you that said it's an omnidirectional bulb it works well on dimmer switches and it offers pretty good value at eleven dollars a lot better than most five watt replacements which cost fifteen or twenty still at eleven bucks it's maybe not quite as competitive as last year's 600 lumen Ladera LED that cost five bucks but I still think that it's an interesting bulb that merits a close look if you like bright colors in your home for more check out my full review at cnet.com for seen that appliances I'm Rui Chris