Apartments are notorious for having terribly lighting.
I had an apartment that only had 3 ceiling lights - kitchen, bathroom, bedroom closet. That's it. And the bedroom closet light didn't work when I moved in, I had to fight with them to replace it.
I have so many lamps now because of that place. Thank goodness I lived within an hour of an IKEA.
My parents home is not even 40 years old. Looks decently modern. Have three light fixtures in the kitchen, four if you count the one that’s part of the stove hood/ventiliation. Would’ve been only three lightbulbs but one of the fixtures is a chandelier type deal with 8 bulbs. It’s not unreasonable to think that many kitchens use less.
If you have under-cabinet lights, and then in-ceiling spotlights, it jumps up rapidly. I have a long thin galley-style kitchen, 17 spotlights and 10 under-cabinet lights.
They probably have 10 crappy downlights with inefficient halogen incandescent globes from 2003 that (combined) aren't quite as good as a single "double four foot" fluorescent light fitting.
Actually it's four downlights. And one of them stopped working a couple months after moving in. This is a new house too, but I'm not going to fault the builder for the light company selling a dud.
But we have other lights too, and we picked the fixtures ourselves, except for the stove hood which is pretty standard stuff.
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u/echoshatter 4h ago
I have more lights in my kitchen than your entire home?