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Lighting
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A bedroom needs two kinds of light and usually has one. The overhead fitting is for finding things; the light you actually live with is at the bedside, at shoulder height, warm enough to read by without waking the person next to you.
This range covers both layers. For the bedside and dressing table there are gesso table lamps in bamboo, ribbed, round and rectangular forms; for the walls, LED sets of two in spiral, starry and geometric mesh designs, which mount without needing a bedside surface at all. Overhead there are crystal semi-flush fittings and a glass droplet chandelier. Prices run £42 to £290.
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Starry LED Wall Lights, Set of 2, Gold | Kaiku
From £42
Spiral LED Wall Lights, Set of 2, Silver | Kaiku
From £43
Three-Light Crystal Semi-Flush Ceiling Light | Kaiku
From £52
Spiral LED Wall Lights, Set of 2, Gold | Kaiku
From £53
Crystal Semi-Flush Chandelier, Silver | Kaiku
From £56
Glass Droplet Pendant Chandelier, Chrome | Kaiku
From £59
Geometric Mesh LED Wall Lights, Set of 2, Gold | Kaiku
From £69
Bamboo Gesso Table Lamp | Kaiku
From £219
Small Rectangular Gesso Table Lamp | Kaiku
From £219
Large Ribbed Gesso Table Lamp | Kaiku
From £238
Large Round Gesso Table Lamp | Kaiku
From £290
How to choose
Get the height right before the style. A bedside lamp reads well when the bottom of the shade sits at roughly seated shoulder height — around 55 to 65cm of total lamp height on a typical 55cm bedside table. Taller than that and the bulb is in your eyeline in bed.
If the bedside table is small, put the light on the wall. A pair of wall lights frees the whole surface for a book, a glass and a phone, and the sets of two here are designed exactly for that pair-either-side arrangement.
Choose semi-flush over a pendant where the ceiling is under about 2.4m. A hanging fitting in a low room is something you walk into; a semi-flush gives the same decorative effect with your head clear of it.
Warm and dim beats bright and neutral in this room. Aim for 2700K bulbs, and put the overhead fitting on a dimmer if you can — the same room needs full light to find a suitcase and almost none at bedtime.
Common questions
- How tall should a bedside lamp be?
- Total height around 55 to 65cm on a standard bedside table, so the bottom of the shade sits near shoulder height when you are sitting up. Any taller and you see the bulb from the pillow.
- Wall lights or table lamps beside the bed?
- Wall lights if the bedside table is small or already full — they free the entire surface. Table lamps if you want to move the light, or if fitting wall lights would mean chasing cables into plaster.
- Can I hang a chandelier in a bedroom with low ceilings?
- Under about 2.4m, choose a semi-flush fitting instead. It gives the same decorative effect at the ceiling without hanging into the space people walk through.
- What bulb colour is best for a bedroom?
- 2700K warm white. Cooler bulbs suppress the wind-down a bedroom is for, and 4000K in particular reads like an office at eleven at night.