How to choose the best lighting for your home
Functional and decorative, good lighting can be the making of a room. Not only does it add light and ambience, but made from a range of materials including concrete, metal, ceramic and glass, it can help to set the tone of your décor too. Whether you’re searching for dining room, living room or bedroom lighting, this buying guide contains information to help you make the right choice for your space.
What are the different types of lighting?
1. Floor lamps
Floor lamps are often designed to be statement pieces in your space. Standing tall, floor lamps make a good, impermanent alternative to pendant lighting that needs to be wired in. They can be used to illuminate darker corners of a room or placed beside a cosy armchair or sofa to add a more directional ambient light.
3. Lamp shades
Our lamp shades are designed for use on table lamps and floor lamps and are ideal for adding to pendant lighting if you’re living in a rented home and can’t make any permanent electrical changes. Our lamp shades fit a standard size E27 bulb fitting and we include a plastic reducer ring with each shade, which converts the inner ring to fit sizes E14 and B22 bulb fittings too.
5. String lights and garlands
String lights and garlands are a portable, easy-to-change lighting option that add festive decoration to your walls by emitting a subtle glow that’s soft and atmospheric. They are often powered by batteries.
2. Table lamps
Table lamps and desk lamps are best added to a bedside table, office desk or side table in your living room. You can choose from a range of sizes – from small to statement – depending on how much light you need to add. They’re portable, so if you move house or your home décor changes, you can easily switch out the lamp base, lampshade or lightbulb for something else to better suit your style.
4. Neon signs
If you want to style your space with something more statement, choose neon signs with playful slogans in bright colours. The neon signs we stock are designed to be placed on a surface such as a mantlepiece or table and are backed with a mirror to help reflect more light.
What switches do the lamps have?
Our lamps carry two types of switches. Our table lamps and neon lights are mostly fitted with inline switches, which are placed high along the lamp’s power cord, usually near to the lamp base for easy access. Our floor lamps are mostly fitted with inline foot press switches, which sit on the floor where they can be turned on and off with your foot.
What type of light bulbs do we sell?
We design our own range of LED (Light Emitting Diode) light bulbs and stock bulbs by sustainable lighting brand Tala too, made from tinted and metallic glass and centred with interesting filaments.
There are two main styles of light bulb fitting cap on the market, Edison screw (E) and bayonet (B). The light bulbs we sell are LED Edison screw bulbs in both E27 and E14 bulb fitting sizes. All our wall, floor and table lamps require Edison screw light bulbs and we do not stock bayonet light bulbs.
Are LED lights better?
LED bulbs are not only beautiful, they make a more energy-efficient, long-lasting and eco-friendly alternative to traditional bulbs.
