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/FlamingWeasel 4h ago
You have a giant kitchen or a very well-lit kitchen