The light is given as a warm-white, but not everyone plays fairly into beige / yellow, thus perhaps taste. The pear achieved, unlike other products on the market within a few seconds their full light output. No long waits in the shadows. The brightness corresponds, as far as I can tell, the specified 60 Watt bulb, but did as I said another light color. Rather something for the living room as the kitchen. I can say nothing about the life after such a short time of course.