Floor Lamps and Their Types – An Overview

by | May 31, 2014 | home decor

A home is not complete without the proper arrangement of lighting so while decorating your home; home lighting is on the top in the “to do list.” Floor lamps are lighting fixtures that you can even move all around the home for lighting purposes. The only thing to consider is a selection of different floor lamps. If you select them carefully according to the need of your home, they are multipurpose. You can improve the decoration of every room with floor lamps. Even people use them as a piece of art and craft. Did you get an antique piece of floor lamp? Voila! It is going to be the center of discussion between your family members or the visitors. It reflects your taste and flavor.

There are many different styles and types of floor lamps that you can use according to the demand of your place. You can blend them with different interiors and styles. Did you get two sofas in your living room sitting beside each other? You can put a beautiful floor lamp there for additional lighting and warm atmosphere. Besides reflecting your taste and dedication to the art, floor lamps are also being used for core purposes of additional lighting. In any corner of your home or place, it can be your bedroom, living room, guest room or even dining; you can use floor lamps for enlightening that space. Reading the books and watching the movies are other two primary purposes for which someone would need or use floor lamps. We often need extra lighting for reading books so there is much such type of floor lamps are available in which you can enhance the readability. On the other hand, for watching movies, we often need a little light in the room. For the purpose you can turn off all main lights and light up the floor lamp, it is going to create a theater atmosphere in your home.

Reading the books and watching the movies are other two primary purposes for which someone would need or use floor lamps. We often need extra lighting for reading books so there is much such type of floor lamps are available in which you can enhance the readability. On the other hand, for watching movies, we often need a little light in the room. For the purpose you can turn off all main lights and light up the floor lamp, it is going to create a theater atmosphere in your home.

Photo Credits Flickr

Photo Credits Flickr

Different types of Floor lamps

According to various situations and scenarios, you can select various types of floor lamps according to your needs. Available options are endless to choose a floor lamp. You want one-floor lamp in your bedroom; you got a large variety and options. Perhaps you can combine two of your requirement, and a one-floor lamp can fulfill both. Let’s have a look that what type of Floor Lamps is available.

Kids Floor Lamps

When we were kids, what attracted us the most? I am sure your answer is lights and sounds. The rule is same, and lights even fascinate us all our age. This lighting romance keeps alive all our life, and so we often like to have floor lamps in our kid’s room. It also reminds us of our own child’s age. For child’s room, you can go with a vast variety of floor lamps. Kids often are inspired by the lights and shades, so your option will be bringing in some floor lamps with lots of shades and lighting options.

This is not the era of only having on and off options in floor lamps; you can find such lights that offer the different intensity of light in the room. Your kids may be using them for reading and completing their homework on a highlight, or they may be having a nap or a cartoon movie in the little light. In other options, you can find table lamps with animal shaped fixtures or comic based models. Those are going to give a pretty good impression of the room, and I bet that your kids are going to love that look. They are going to spend most of their time in their rooms doing their work or fun things.

Reading Floor Lamp

In these days, the fundamental purpose of lamps is the extra lighting but do you remember the real cause of lamps for which they are popular? Just thing of table lamps, we have been using them for an extended time for reading purposes. There is a vast variety of table reading lamps available everywhere, but the right news is that we can use floor lamps for reading purposes as well. These reading floor lamps are made in a way that they look artistic, so they are a combination of art and readability. Think of reading your favorite book on the couch and the floor lamp next to the sofa is enlightened the atmosphere for you. Isn’t cool? It will be a piece of art as well as the comfort. Floor lamps with reading light come with various designs from plain colors to the artistic touch. Even you’ll be able to find the designer series for these lamps.

Designer Floor Lamps

The days are gone when designers and architects us ceiling lights to light up the rooms. Almost ten years ago, practically all developers started to use floor lamps as an essential part of the interior. When talking about interior design and specifically modern interior designs, Architect floor lamps have the importance. The contemporary house plan cannot be completed without modern lighting interior, and designer floor lamps are an essential part of it. I can easily declare them a whole generation of floor lamps because developers design them for all places in your home, in collaboration architects use them at appropriate places. If you are renovating your home or building one brand new, Designer floor lamps should be on the top for lighting purposes. Along with designer table lamps, I’d love to mention Tiffany style floor lamps. These lamps are very artistic, and they go well with the interior of any place in modern houses. When talking about different illumination in the home, nothing works better than Tiffany style floor lamps. So next time, when you’ll be thinking about adding some lighting to your house, consider these designer floor lamps especially Tiffany style.

Photo Credits Flickr

Photo Credits Flickr

Wooden Floor Lamps

We often arrange the art piece to decorate our home. It can be several pictures framed in costly frames or different vases with flowers. There are many other things which can be used for such purpose. Ever you think of a wooden floor lamp replacing that vase? There are multiple benefits of putting a wooden lamp instead of having any other art piece. A wood lamp ‘s hard to break apart. Have you kids in your home? Go with wooden floor lamps, these are durable than any other material, and they will light up the darker areas of your home. You can place them in kid’s room because they are hard to be broken. You can even go with different designs and shapes that attract your child. People often think that wooden lamps are made for tables, and they are being used in offices. That is an old thought. You can have them anywhere in your house with an artistic touch because they are good enough when you pair them with another wood furniture in your home.

Glass Floor Lamps

As you know glasses reflect the light, so we often use them at places where we need different effects of light. We need shades and strength of light in different areas of our rooms. Glass floor lamps are the solutions for all such needs. There is a different type of glass floor lamps available in the market that you even can find the artistic type of glass floor lamps, torchiere, and Tiffany lamps are kinds of glass lamps. Torchiere lamps are different in a way as they emit the light upward (remember that often all floor lamps emit the light downward from their top) so the light gives the upward to spread a sense of lighting. Tiffany floor lamps are used for different shadings of light.

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