Using Table Lamps To Enhance Your Home Decor

Indoor lighting can be used to great effect not only to create different moods in your surroundings, but also to highlight key features in a room. We spend a lot of time and effort getting colors, soft furnishings and themes for a room right that it is often easy to overlook the vital component that is more like the cherry on the cake: your indoor lighting.

Table lamps are versatile. They are portable (not fixed to the ceiling like hanging pendants or chandelier lighting) or attached to a wall (like wall sconces) hence they can be moved and placed at will. Table lamps can also have a double function in that as well as providing more light in a room, they can also work as an ornamental object. Tiffany style table lamps are a great example of this because they truly are beautiful pieces of craftmanship and their dazzling colors and creative motifs make them especially eye-catching.

By using lamps and lighting fixtures effectively you can transform your room easily and effectively. Not only can lighting be used to provide the general light for the room, you can use picture lights, table lamps,spotlights, recessed lighting, track lighting all carefully and strategically placed to show different objects in your home to their best advantage:

• collectibles
• photos
• pictures
• ornaments
• plants and flowers

All of these items can be placed under the light and highlighted. You can even bring more attention to a fireplace by the lighting you use around it, wall sconces, for example.

Using different colored bulbs in your lights and lamps does wonders to change the ambience dramatically. Soft, pastel shades can add warmth whilst bright colors such as red or blue are more arty and need to be used in context with the theme of the room.

So, next time you think one of your rooms needs a makeover, instead of getting out the paints or looking for new wallpaper, think about buying a few lamps - portable lamps such as floor lamps or table lamps are a good start as you won't need to worry about wiring.

A beautiful floor lamp placed in a corner of your room, overlooking an armchair perhaps is enough to transform that corner. And with so many varied designs, materials and styles to choose from, you will be able to find a floor lamp to match your room quite easily.

Similarly, using occasional tables and table lamps with large lampshades, is a good way of highlighting objects - you might want to put treasure photos, keepsakes, ornaments under the lamp so that they are illuminated by the light from the table lamp.