You may order directly from the manufacturer to have them shipped to your door, or you may have a Lowe’s or Home Depot nearby where most models are now being sold. It appears that the current leader in the field is Phillips of Canada. They have bulbs that simulate any brightness offered by incandescents including 60 watt and 120 watt bulbs. Here is their link.
Tesla is becoming uniquely poised for success in 2017 and beyond, helping to build a new, sustainable world for all of us. They manufacture and install the entire system for converting any residence into a self sustaining home. Included now in that set of tools is a way to roof your entire house will photovoltaic shingles. Despite the naysayers, Elon Musk has vowed that these shingles do not cost more than any other shingles to purchase or install. That is a brilliant strategy. That would be a wonderful breakthrough for home design. The available textures for these shingles offer a designer some creative options. The roof does not have to look like a solar panel. It looks like a beautiful roof.
Tesla has invented the answer to the problem of solar energy storage in a home for an affordable price. Yes, you can heat your home with solar energy, and there is enough sunlight in Maine. It will amortize quite quickly to become free energy for you for many years to come. If you want to help prevent the worst, extreme, global, environmental conditions in recorded history, buy solar energy now. Or you could wait until there is a crisis in your neighborhood and wish you did.
Pretty soon, your windows, which lose most of the energy in your house, will be compensating by generating energy from sunlight. Another brilliant advance in the architecture of clean energy on the way to fruition.
Even the handicap bath only takes up 6 feet by 7.8 feet. The others average about 6.8 feet by 5.7 feet. My favorite is the Omega, topping out at 3.6 feet by 7.6 feet. Very tidy, and does not feel small inside. To clean them, you just need to hose them down inside. It all goes down the drain.
It is a French company. If you want one of these for your house, the shipping cost might be discouraging. But if you want 10 of them, I bet you would save many thousands of dollars by designing them into your project. PencilJazz plans to use them in future projects. Perhaps someone here in the USA also supply them. I will look into that. Here is the web address of the manufacturer. Bravo Altor!
http://www.altor-industrie.com/fr/catalogue-salle-de-bains
The categories of choices are Engineered, Domestic, Exotic, Handscraped, and Stained, and all are not the same price, but close. You may be able to afford something exotic such as bamboo. It is not solid wood. It is a composite wood simulation with the wear resistant plastic surface that is barely distinguishable from solid wood. The same floor in solid wood could cost 3 to 5 times more per square foot. These materials run from $3 to $9 per square foot of coverage, before installation labor. When installed expertly, these are tough and beautiful floors that install more quickly and can more easily be repaired when damaged. For those of you who wince at synthetics, swallow your pride, fewer trees were cut and recycled materials are often used, so it can be “greener”.