think ours are normal.. soft white. it's like 'POW' really bright though!

we have two 3 bulb fixtures.

almost everywhere else in the house we have energy saver ones.

Definitely depends on the bathroom, the available natural light and color scheme. Try a few different types and you'll see what I mean. HUGE difference between the various types of bulbs and wattages, and one will be better than the others for your space.

Always daylight, always. No windows in my upstairs bath and any other type bulb casts a creepy hue on things, including my skin! ;)

I have a 5-light fixture in my master bath. I recently replaced the soft white reg bulbs w/ the mini spiral CFLs I picked up at Lowes on sale. Wow, I can see again in there! Hopefully I am saving a little electricity, too.

I do have a window in there, too.

My DH switched the bulbs in the master bath from incandescent to CFL because he stays hot anyway and the incandescents really heated up the room. Some of the flourescents take a while to reach full brightness, but they give plenty of good light once they make it.

Thanks for the opinions guys! I'm going to post another thread with update pics of the bathroom so far with the new light fixture!

We just installed a new light fixture in our windowless bathroom and used CFL bulbs. I noticed it turned our honey brown candles to a wierd shade of olive green. I don't use that bathroom for makeup but my teenage DD does. We may have to go back to incandescents. So I am wondering the same thing as you. Is there an environmentally "green" light bulb that doesn't cast a green glow?

My light fixture is only 100w max. So that means I can put 100 watt reveals in there or use mini spiral cfls which they have 100w and 150w similiar versions of but its only 23-30 watts which would be brighter. I know the diff bulbs make the room paint look diff color, I want it to be pleasing, and able to see for when my wife puts on makeup since its our only light fixture in there. Maybe I should buy them all and try it out and pick one I like best and return the rest to lowes or homedepot. By the way, do you guys try to put the max in there or just what you need? Like would you just put 100 watt in all of them or just put 75 w in all? To be honest, I have no idea how you know what you need, but I was told that I should look for light with most lumens which will bright the room more. But again I'm confused cause I've seen some softwhite bulbs put out more lumens than some bright white in same wattage so I'm confused again. lol

My main bathroom has Philips CFL globes, which are very warm in color.

I have 2 four bulb vanity lights over a double sink with CFL Globes by N.Vision (Home Depot.)The light is great for make up.

When researching lighting for our bathroom, I read 150 watts total was recommended. I think that was a minimum. In my case, with a 3-light fixture, each had to accommodate at least 50.

Well, I decided to go with GE reveal 100 watts. It looks really good, wished the energy spirals had mini for 100 watt versions because the bulb showed way too much coming out of the shade and I didn't like the look. If they can make mini ones like the 40 watts, then I'll use those. But in the meantime the reveals will have to do till they come out with new ones.

I used 4 of those spirally bulbs that are supposed to save energy. They are 75 watts each (which burns about 60 watts total) and they are bright. the cool thing is I had to take the globes off and the lights had been burning about an hour or two and I took the bulbs out and they were actually just warm (not hot) to the touch. that was pretty good. the light is pretty bright too BUT yesterday I noticed my skin had a yellowish tone and I was not sure if it was from the glow of the brown paint or what. I do not put my makeup on in the bathroom so they will stay. I have been in the process of replacing all the bulbs with the spirally ones since no one in my house seems to know how to turn out the lights. I have no idea if they are saving electricity yor not since I just replaced them all a few days ago. I got tired of replacing bulbs so often and once a year sounded a lot to me. Plus I was able to increase the wattage safely.

I am not a fan of energy saver bulbs in rooms which you need to have light on full when you walk in. Energy saver bulbs take too long to come on. I don't like walking into a dark bathroom and having to wait 5 minutes before the room is completely lit, only to be done in there already. They are only useful in rooms where I plan to leave the light on for hours. Plus, you cannot dim a fluorescent bulb, nor can you (well, are supposed to) dispose of them as they contain mercury so they are consider hazardous wastes. And they don't last as long as they claim, having had three go bad in months not years.

On the whole I think the idea is good but the product is lousy.

mqmoi - funny story about 150 watts total for the bathroom.

Our masterbath has TWO four bulb fixtures. One over each sink. A few bulbs burned out so DH went to get some at the depot. I told him to get the Reveal bulbs so the light will shine true. Well, I didn't tell him what wattage so that night after he put them I go to turn on the light and holy cow!! Envision the local power company having to go to auxillary nuclear power (a la National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation) when the lights came on!! He had put in 100 watt bulbs in EACH - so we are talking 800 watts of bright light!
I laughed so hard!! The next morning when I stumbled into the bathroom and yet again flipped the light I thought where are my sunglasses!!
I took 2 of the bulbs out on my side and he left his in. This weekend it was back to the depot and this time he got 75 watts.... I still had to take 2 bulbs out on my side.
LOL