It’s still common in newer construction. My 2000s house doesn’t have ceiling lights in any bedroom but the master bedroom. They just wire half the wall plugs to the switch in the room.
Yeah, it’s a cheap construction “shortcut” and I hate it. Thankfully I’m handy enough to run conduit because I wouldn’t be able to deal with lamp lighting
Overhead lighting is just so much nicer. It doesn’t get in the way of cleaning or moving furniture, you don’t need an extension cord if it’s too far from an outlet, there isn’t the game of is it off on the lamp or wall switch, kids can’t grab it, and pets can’t knock it over.
There’s a housing project in my town that’s the most depressing place I could imagine living. It’s like a cross between Soviet block housing and a minimum security prison: concrete walls, little natural light, and steel doors. The only room in the apartments that have built in lighting is the bathroom since it’s required by code.
It’s entirely a cost thing: the goal was to make “housing” that requires the minimum in maintenance and repair. To that end they went with “durability is more important that livability” and offloading as much responsibility onto the tenants as possible.
I noticed this too, I assumed it was a style/trend thing as things tend to cycle in and out, but could also be about regulations and/or location. House I grew up built in the 50’s had built-in ceiling lights. House I moved to built in 1990 didn’t and I saw that as “this is the new way, ceiling lights are old fashioned”. Now I live in a house built in 2015 and it has built-in ceiling lights.
The fan thing was weird to me as usually we had to install these aftermarket just about everywhere I lived. I’m a florida man so fans are pretty much required here to keep the house cool. In turn now I feel like recessed lights are the new normal and bulbs are out.
I don’t know when this started but most bedrooms don’t even have a ceiling light anymore, so you still need these floor lamps.
Cheap construction. That was really prevalent in the 60s and 70s, I’m finding a lot of those in my current house hunt
It’s still common in newer construction. My 2000s house doesn’t have ceiling lights in any bedroom but the master bedroom. They just wire half the wall plugs to the switch in the room.
Yeah, it’s a cheap construction “shortcut” and I hate it. Thankfully I’m handy enough to run conduit because I wouldn’t be able to deal with lamp lighting
I understand your frustration, but you can’t deal with nice lamps in the corners of your rooms?
Overhead lighting is just so much nicer. It doesn’t get in the way of cleaning or moving furniture, you don’t need an extension cord if it’s too far from an outlet, there isn’t the game of is it off on the lamp or wall switch, kids can’t grab it, and pets can’t knock it over.
That is correct. My lights are automated and I use the overhead light in conjunction with my alarm in the morning
There’s a housing project in my town that’s the most depressing place I could imagine living. It’s like a cross between Soviet block housing and a minimum security prison: concrete walls, little natural light, and steel doors. The only room in the apartments that have built in lighting is the bathroom since it’s required by code.
It’s entirely a cost thing: the goal was to make “housing” that requires the minimum in maintenance and repair. To that end they went with “durability is more important that livability” and offloading as much responsibility onto the tenants as possible.
That’s weird i just bought a new construction house and every room has a fan and light
I noticed this too, I assumed it was a style/trend thing as things tend to cycle in and out, but could also be about regulations and/or location. House I grew up built in the 50’s had built-in ceiling lights. House I moved to built in 1990 didn’t and I saw that as “this is the new way, ceiling lights are old fashioned”. Now I live in a house built in 2015 and it has built-in ceiling lights.
The fan thing was weird to me as usually we had to install these aftermarket just about everywhere I lived. I’m a florida man so fans are pretty much required here to keep the house cool. In turn now I feel like recessed lights are the new normal and bulbs are out.
Ya my house has pretty much all recessed lights, instead of one light in the middle of the room there’s 2 rows of 3 recessed ones lol.