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ASVInteriors Absolutely not! Nowadays you can find LED strips in most places and they offer both cool light (very white) and warm light (more like regular lights) - you can even get them in colour strips (or changing colours!). If in doubt, find a showroom or electrician that can showcase a few for you. You need to see for yourself to decide.

lowprofile If your designer does not know led comes in warm white, then is my question, is he realy a designer???

aspeed6 Yes, before I started such an expensive project, I found a qualified designer. He knows about LEDs in warm white, he just does not think the color is comparable to xenon. I was hoping for helpful, positive - even specific recommendations by posting my dilema.

ASVInteriors Sorry but that information wasn't clear in your posting. I would ask yourself then if you can view both types of lighting. I believe in the Pareto principle - are you willing to pay a lot more for a subtle difference. That is only a question you can answer once you can compare the two yourself.

Deborah Butler, Brickwood Builders I personally have not yet become a fan of LED lights. They will probably get to the point they are comparable some time in the future, but they're not there yet, imo. We did a whole house in CREE LED lights for a client. Hundreds of them and we had to space the lights so close together as they have very little spread and the rooms still looked dim. We couldn't get a decent picture of the place, even a professional could not get the lighting to work to get reasonable pictures.

Back to undercabinet, we use the Xenon and they do get warm, but we have not had any problems with them. We get them from one of our local lighting stores and I don't know the brand.

You can probably go to a local electrical/lighting supply store and they will have displays of both.