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Most floor lamps have a metal finish somewhere, so it’s important to consider them in the context of other metal finishes.
Also consider whether your space is in dire need of a statement piece or whether your lamp can function more in the background. You can also pick something like a tray-table lamp if you need a dual-purpose light and tabletop surface.
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Floor lamps can go anywhere, depending on what you’re using them for and the amount of space you have. Our designers use floor lamps to create three different types of light within a room:
Floor lamps can be great space savers in small bedrooms—no room for a night table? Place a floor lamp next to the bed. They can also be placed next to a decorative accent table that’s too small to support a table lamp.
One tip: When you place a floor lamp, leave some negative space around it rather that positioning it right against a wall or against your seating. This negative space helps you get the most from your floor lamp—ambient light isn’t absorbed by a wall, and task lighting isn’t right on top of you, creating glare and shadows while you’re trying to work.
We size our floor lamps between 55 and 60 inches in height, with some lamps that adjust to taller than 5 feet. Check the shade and base diameter to make sure they’ll fit within the allotted space—again, allowing for a foot or so of negative space around the lamp.
For more tips on selecting light fixtures, check out our read our lighting buying guide.
All of our floor lamps can utilize energy-efficient LED bulbs. We think about floor lamp bulbs in two terms: brightness and color temperature. A bulb’s brightness is measured in lumens; a bulb’s color temperature, or how cool or warm the light appears to be, is measured in Kelvin (K).
When using floor lamps for ambient light in living rooms, dining rooms, or bedrooms, we estimate your total ambient light needs to be between 10 and 20 lumens per square foot; in a 100-square-foot room, that’s between 1,000 and 2,000 lumens, depending on your personal preference. If you have additional ambient light sources contributing toward that total, your floor lamp bulb won’t need to be as bright. If your floor lamp is one of your only ambient light sources, you’ll need a brighter bulb. People also tend to prefer warm light in living rooms, dining rooms, and bedrooms, so choose a bulb between 2,700 K and 3,500 K.
For area lighting, such as when you’re illuminating a piece of artwork, stick with warmer light. If you’re placing a club lamp near your artwork to bathe it in diffuse light, shoot for about 800 lumens. For a floor lamp that you’re using for task light, opt for a 450-lumen bulb.
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