Swap a ceiling fixture for two lamps and a room stops feeling like an office. Seldens' lamps collection gathers table and floor lamps from Uttermost, Mercana, Tommy Bahama Home, Stickley and Flexsteel, on ceramic, metal, wood, glass and stone bases.

Getting Lamp Height Right for the Table It Sits On

Measure from the floor, not from the tabletop. Beside a seated chair or sofa, the bottom of the shade should land near eye level when you are sitting, which usually means the table and lamp together total about 58 to 64 inches. Too tall and the bulb glares at you. Too short and you light your knees. On a nightstand, aim for the bottom of the shade around chin height when you are sitting up in bed. And the shade should never overhang the edge of the table underneath it.

Placing Lamps Around a Room

Think in corners. Two lamps set diagonally across a room beat four lined up along one wall, and a floor lamp is the answer wherever there is no surface to set one on. An entry console takes one lamp, left on. A home office needs light beside the screen, not behind it. Matching pairs either side of a bed look tidy. Two different lamps that share a finish look considered.

Shop Lamps in Tacoma, Bellevue and Olympia

Lamp scale is genuinely hard to judge online, and a lamp two inches too tall registers as a mistake every time you walk past it. Our Tacoma, Bellevue and Olympia showrooms keep them lit and staged on real tables, an easy stop from the Eastside. Bring the height of your nightstand or end table and our design team will match a lamp to it. See more in lighting and Uttermost table lamps.