Saturday, February 21, 2015
How to Choose the Right Lamp
Choose the wrong size and it won’t matter how pretty the lamp is!
At House By The Shore, you’ve heard us
talk about scale before and basically that is what it boils down to again in
choosing the correct lamp for your space.
Too large or too small ant the proportions will all be off and as we
mentioned it just won’t matter how pretty the lamp is, it will just look
wrong. Your lamp has to be the right
size for the space. Here are some tips
to finding a lamp that is both stylish and the correct size.
Style – always important!
You want to choose a lamp that fits with the design elements
in
Scale and proportion
are critical!
A small lamp that is designed for a bookshelf will look
pretty odd on the end table next to the sofa in your family room. Keep scale in mind. If you have a large chest as a bedside table
you’re going to want a larger lamp.
Avoid looking up into
a light bulb!
There is nothing worse than sitting in your chair and looking
up into a glaring lightbulb. To know the
height you need, sit in the chair and measure from the table surface to your
eye level. Then you will want to choose
a lamp whose base to the bottom of the shade isn’t taller than this
number. For a bedside table you would do
the same thing from a sitting position.
Variety is the spice
of life!
You want a variety of light sources to not only provide
adequate lighting but also to increase interest. You don’t have to have a matching pair of
lamps, especially in the family room. In
the bedroom it is ok but they don’t have to be the same. However, if different they need to be the
same size and scale.
Change out lamps to
refresh your design!
It is true. Just
changing out your lamps can freshen up your whole design. People will wonder if you redid the whole
room! We tend to forget to update our
lamps and that is a mistake. Styles
change and there are some wonderful new designs, colors and patterns available
in lighting today.
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