Filament bulbs are intended to be seen, not covered. In the situation where your venue’s shades and covers are the culprits, ditch them and turn the fixture into a statement while continuing to follow the nostalgic light bulb feel. You’ll find the answer by establishing your goals, which include interior design lighting style. But the goals also include: While all LED bulbs are practical, none can elevate a fixture like a striking, filament bulb. This makes it a fantastic choice for commercial venues that want to make the switch to LED lighting and capitalize on energy savings, but don’t want to retool all their lighting fixtures, and keep the vintage lighting.

TCP offers a solution for architects, designers and contractors with a program called TCP Pro – complete, start-to-finish consulting, purchasing and installation services that take your industrial lighting vision for commercial spaces and brings it to life. Regardless of style for the commercial installation, the big question remains: Replace with a newer, energy-efficient lighting system or retrofit? But even if your venue’s fixtures are perfect for the filament bulb, the value proposition of LEDs can’t be overstated. The now antiquated 60-watt incandescent light bulb produced nearly 800 lumens. Now a 6.5-watt LED filament can produce the same amount of lumens at nearly 1/10th of the power, and look great doing it.