Honest opinions about how to buy Appliances and Lighting.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

The Illumination of Cape Cod Lumber

About 7 months ago, I ventured into Cape Cod Lumber. When I think of lumberyards, my thoughts revert to Somerville Lumber, Grossmans' and Builder Square. These companies could not adapt to the changing times and went bankrupt.

Cape Cod is different. Their kitchen department is probably about 5,000 square feet, which is huge by industry standards. They have very solid people and decent price points. I like the company.

Their lighting was a problem. As I have described in previous posts, lighting should accentuate the space. Somehow their warehouse high pressure sodium lights detracted from their display.....So we sent our modern lighting specialist Nick to change the paradigm. For displays, good lighting should be clean and unobtrusive, whereas decorative lighting can be more pronounced.

Lets see how he did:

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