Club Floor Lamp
This traditional floor lamp style includes a pole extending from a base casts light down from the bulb
Good lighting is key to illuminating your beautiful home. It’s also crucial to your family’s day-to-day comfort – after all, without quality light, it’s harder to complete tasks, navigate your space, and enjoy your home
Our homes are full of different types of lights, serving different purposes. Once the basic functional lighting is sorted, you can add a pop of brightness with individual floor and table lamps
With these accent lamps, you can add a touch of elegance and flair to the space.
Before you start browsing, knowing what the lamp will be used for will help you know what sort of lighting to choose.
● General / ambient lighting: Used to illuminate a room neutrally and uniformly
● Task Lighting: Higher level of illumination for a particular activity such as reading, preparing food, working etc.
● Accent Lighting: Used to highlight a particular area of a room or a piece of furniture
● Mood Lighting: Provides a decorative compliment to general lighting to create an atmosphere in a room
Types of Lamps
Torchier Floor lamp
Similar to console lamps, but they have inverted shades that direct light toward the ceiling, where it reflects and provides ambient light
Torchiere lamps generally resemble torches (hence the name), although the shade may take on a variety of shapes
Because their light is indirect, torchiere floor lamps are not particularly good for reading. They’re often placed at the edges or corners of the room, instead of to the side of chairs or sofas
On the plus side, they don’t have the glare that can occur with some downward shades
Tripod Lamp
A tripod-style floor lamp emulates this well-known piece of equipment through its base, which is similarly reinforced and distributed with not one, but three legs
These legs then come together to form the stem of the floor lamp, ending in a gorgeous shade
Modern, cool and super stable, the tripod floor lamp is a practical and popular pick for any home, and looks especially great amongst contemporary or mid-century styling
Tree Floor Lamp
The tree floor lamp brings an air of new luxe with multiple bulbs in a branch-like formation
Eccentric yet elegant, this style suits a number of interior aesthetics to suit almost any home
As tree lamps have more than one bulb, they provide a great source of light that’s distributed well in terms of height, making them perfect for brightening up the space overall or illuminating a specific part of your room
Size of Shade and Height of Lamps
Accent Table Lamps
Bring light to dark spots in the home or simply draw attention to something you’re proud of with this kind of lamp. Perhaps it’s a family photo, a sculpture or even a trophy
While accent lamps aren’t bright enough to us as task lighting, they are an important piece of your interior design scheme and they can bring life to a room
Place one of these lamps in your living room to fill in the gaps and show off your art or family photos
Lamps by Room
Study Lamps
Study lamps function as task lights. Task lights are bright, downward and direct so that you can see clearly
When selecting a Study lamp, look for a relatively focused beam and minimal glare
Getting a study lamp with adjustable arms and necks is beneficial, so that you can rotate or extend the arm / neck to cover surface areas all over the desktop
Shelf Floor Lamps
Shelf Floor lamp features a platform or shelf around the mid-section of the lamp pole, so that you can use it as a utility tray. For example, you can put lightweight objects there such as magazines, keys, glasses, etc.
If the lamp is placed next to a chair or a sofa, it can serve as a furniture piece and help in organizing small objects, while also providing illumination
Sometimes there are referred to as a floor lamp with table
Floor Lamps
Most floor lamps are designed to be a good height to use by desks or seats. Ideally, they should be between 145 cm to 160 cm in overall height. If you have one which you can adjust, you can experiment to obtain the perfect fit for your room
You will also need to consider your ceiling heights. If you have a high ceiling, then a shorter floor lamp will look lost, and for low ceilings, it will the low height ceiling if there’s a small gap between the lamp and the ceiling
For the shade, ensure that the shade covers the lamp holder and your chosen bulb.
As a rule of thumb, choose a shade that is between 30-40% of the height of the base
Table Lamps
The top of a floor lamp used with a sofa or side chair should be between 58 and 64 inches tall, with the bottom of the shade being at or above the eye level of a seated person
The lamp should be no more than 1½ times the height of whatever it sits on
Overall scale is another huge consideration. A lamp should fit the space, relative to the room it’s in. A tall and large shaded table lamp on a delicate and small table will look awkward. Keep room size and scale in mind. Also, if your furniture is large and bold, pick a lamp that fits that profile. A small, thin lamp would get lost among the rest of the bold accessories
Living Room
Living rooms can be best to showcase all types of lamps
As mood lighting, you can use Floor Lamps (Club, Torchiere or Tripod Lamp)
If you want the floor lamp to also provide some task lighting, go for Tree floor lamp.
Floor lamps are best placed next to seating -sofas, chairs etc. or in corners to brighten up dull spaces
Shelf Floor Lamp is another great option to be used in Living rooms
Table lamps used in the living room can immediately brighten a room.
Again, for mood lighting, use table lamps (Column, Torchiere or Accent lamps)
Place them on mantles, consoles, sideboards, or end tables for best effect
Hallway
A simple table lamp on the entry console or a club floor lamp in a corner can enhance the look of the hallway in a jiffy
Choose compact profiles and lamps which provide ambient lights for hallways
Bedroom
Night lamps are perfect fit for bedrooms
Choose matching nightlamps to be placed on bedside tables
You can also use table lamps on Sideboards, Dressers, or Chest of Drawers to brighten up the overall space
Choose study lamps for the study tables you may have in the bedroom
Home Office
Task lighting is important in the home office, so choose a good study lamp for your desk
For ambient lighting, you can go for a tripod floor lamp or club floor lamp for a simple yet formal look