and this is how it looks here:
The chair was my mother's and now belongs to The Younger Son. The lamp serves well to read by. One lamp down!
Thursday, September 01, 2016
Floor lamps are ugly
and I'm in the midst of a decades-long attempt to choose the least ugly from among them. I've needed floor lamps -no, really, I've needed them- for decades, but I never could find any I didn't think were too ugly for words. The Husband and I finally decided to just do this, and buy the least offensive ones we could find. This is our first (from Pottery Barn):
and this is how it looks here:
The chair was my mother's and now belongs to The Younger Son. The lamp serves well to read by. One lamp down!
and this is how it looks here:
The chair was my mother's and now belongs to The Younger Son. The lamp serves well to read by. One lamp down!
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I agree that floor lamps are really ugly, but they use less real estate than an equivalent sized table lamp. One thing about it, the lamp shade and the chair go well together. Kudos to you.
ReplyDeleteYes, I like having decorative items and coasters on my side table. Floor lamps work better. The burlap seems to be the shade material that's most available right now. I've never had a burlap lamp shade before, but I'm getting used to it. Thanks! :)
DeleteI think all lamps are hard to work with but yours looks nice in the setting you have it in. I need good lighting to read or knit but find it difficult to get it just right. Recently "thrifted" two floor lamps for the River House, both brass and $10 each. Then I painted some shades to put on them. One is in each bedroom and basically used as an alternative to overhead lighting which I dislike. Still working on lights for the living room.
ReplyDeleteI like having a lamp next to any chair where folks are likely to read. I've looked at thrift stores, but most of what I see there are in poor shape. I do keep looking, though, and hoping to find one that'll work next to the rocker in my bedroom. I've been noticing your shade-painting project, and I've started looking at the shades I see in thrift stores. My mother painted and trimmed the shades on her end table lamps next to the couch in the living room. That worked great.
DeleteI've needed them for years, too. I like the one you chose. I spent a fortune on a brass one with a dimmer and everything many years ago and had nothing but trouble with it and it finally broke beyond repair so now I have been buying the cheap cone shaped ones I can aim right where I need them. They are ugly, to be sure, but they work. I like yours better. :)
ReplyDeleteI actually have my eye on one of those cone ones for behind a couch, so light can be directed for reading anywhere along the couch. Sometimes function trumps form :)
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