5 Tips to Match a Table Lamp with Your Room

A table lamp can be a great source of ambient light in a room as opposed to a ceiling light, but choosing the right one to match your aesthetic can be challenging. With the help of this guide, you will choose the best possible light for your environment.

1: Consider your space

The first step to choosing any piece of lighting or furniture is to consider the space you plan to put it. If you want to place your lamp in a large empty space, you'll want something big, bold and eye-catching to make the room feel less bare.

Whereas, if you plan to place the lamp somewhere like a shelf or busy area you will want to go for a smaller, more discrete lamp allowing it to almost disappear in amongst the rest, something like a desk lamp, providing light subtly without affecting the rest of the area's aesthetic.

2: Match the material and colours

Now that you've decided where you will place the lamp and the ideal size it's time to choose the material and colour you want. Try to view the room as a whole, is it dark with a lot of brown, black and grey or light with colours popping in every direction you look?

As you can imagine, placing a bright plastic/metal lamp with a flamboyant shade in an otherwise dark room would look rather odd!

3: Compliment your style

This goes hand in hand with matching your colour, materials and space. If your space is centred around a specific period or style, stick with it. Whether you're adding a side table in a living room, a bedside table lamp or any other range of table lamps it's important to keep with the theme so as to not alienate the lamp in the space.

4: Choose the right bulb

The choice of bulb matters more than you may think, whilst LED bulbs offer the best efficiency, they provide a very bright white light which isn't ideal for all situations. If you want to create some nice mood light then old filament bulbs may be the way to glow.

Filament bulbs give off a warm, orange glow which no other bulb can match. They are however the least efficient and thus waste a lot of energy.

5: Trust your gut!

The last step is perhaps the simplest, just trust your gut! Only you know best what will suit your aesthetic goals best and if you see a light and think "That'd be perfect for my living room" just get it!