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"Just buy Hue" is a massive initial expense! Due to the fact that the previous owners of my place were the least practical people on the planet, on the ground floor alone there are 33 light spots, most GU10.

The cheapest Hue option is a 4-pack of Hue Essential for £63. That would be 9 of those for £567 in light bulbs for the ground floor alone.

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Buy used! They were/are really popular so there's always a number of items selling for reasonable prices, and they don't really have perishable properties (besides power on time which is _long_).

> 33 light spots, most GU10

That's a sad situation, but even if a bit ugly - a GU10->E27 adapter cotst ~$1.

Yeah but most of them are embedded in the ceiling, so would require some sort of renovations for that. It's really baffling that they'd do this.

Thanks for the tip on second hand, I might have a look.

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