Comments on: Modern, Minimalist and Cheap Ceiling Fans

By: joan

joan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:15:33 +0000

i’m interested to find out if you bought any of these fans and how they’re working. i’m looking for industrial-strength/cheap fans too. do you have a variable speed switch or remote to control it? we’re finishing our renovation and trying to finalize LEED certification (also using MaGrann). we have a SIPs ceiling in the great room area. we will solve the overhead lighting issue by installing lights on a cable system.

By: Scoats

Scoats — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:24:10 +0000

I’m not a fan of ceiling fans. They get very dusty. Many are noisy and most seem to have a very finite lifespan, requiring replacement. Though the models you are considering seem to have few of the issues that plague the ones sold at Home Depot and Lowes.

http://www.lakewoodconferences.com/direct/dbimage/50325340/Tower_Fan.jpg

When I renovated my house, I bought tower fans the local big box pharmacy. Tower fans provide the same type of whole room air circulation but at a lower cost. They easily plug into a wall outlet and are unobtrusive.

By: chad

chad — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:36:54 +0000

Colin, Thanks for the link. We all know and love modernfan.com but unfortunately their offererings are just too far out of our budget reqs. Also, I don’t feel that high-end modern fixtures like these fit the overall design theme of the project. We need to use a lot of innovative and affordable items, and then splurge on one or two items that make a statement. Since we will have 3-4 fans in the house, I did not think it was an item we could splurge on…

By: Lighting Layout for 100K | 100khouse.com

Lighting Layout for 100K | 100khouse.com — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:32:23 +0000

[...] over a rough sketch of the lighting layout for the 100K House that they came up with. Given the discussion that was sparked the other day on the ceiling fans and where to put the lighting, I thought I would get this up ASAP for the interested parties. The [...]

By: colin

colin — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:24:42 +0000

Maybe not the least expensive, but …

http://modernfan.com/

By: chad

chad — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:32:42 +0000

Sorry about the delay. I’ve been swamped today. I updated the post with links to the fans at CSN Lighting which seemed to have the best pics, description and pricing.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:05:25 +0000

http://www.westinghouseceilingfans.com/locate.asp
http://www.emersonfans.com/authorized.jsp

Or you could just Google the make/model # and I’m sure you’ll get hundreds of results.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:04:57 +0000

Chad–do you have a link to where to buy the fans online?

By: chad

chad — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:57:57 +0000

Very nice work Shawn. I think that would turn out very nice.

Brandon, we will probably be writing about lighting more tomorrow, but currently are looking at all exposed CFL’s using $2 fixtures from Home Depot.

By: Shawn Busse

Shawn Busse — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:10:13 +0000

Hey Gang,

Faster than you can say “Sketchup” I’ve posted a rendering of our solution to this challenge: http://www.shawnbusse.com/private/houseblog/the-great-lighting-debate