Every time I walked into the showroom and the lamps were on, my eyes hurt. Without wasting a moment (and without a penny to spend), we took the energy-slurping halogen lights out of the old showroom and put them in the new one, which, incidentally, is not completely finished yet. But with the low number of lights, the new showroom being much larger than the old one, there are numerous areas that are insufficiently – but interestingly – illuminated. The result is economical, I’ll admit. But the energy loss is far from sufficient to help heat up the showroom and all that waste starts to get under your skin, especially in the winter.
Thanks to a miraculous trade, we now have quite a few LED lights, for which I’ve designed an utterly simple fitting, so the showroom will soon be fitted with low-energy lighting which, of course, will make it even colder. So I recommend keeping your jacket on – which I assume everyone will be wearing in the winter. To eliminate a sense of shoddy hospitality and misplaced frugality, we can hold out the prospect of a warmer showroom in the future. Next year, we’ll have a huge wood-burning stove in which we can burn our wood waste, the perfect recycling solution, so we can heat up and chill out in an environmentally friendly way.
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