I’ve seen your table lamps in the Design Center, and they’re pretty big. If you’re placing your table lamp on a sofa table, check the height of the bottom of its shade relative to the height of people in your home-no one wants to tap their head on a lamp shade while they’re trying to watch TV!.Height is less of an issue but check the depth of the table: The widest part of your lamp shade should be no wider than the table’s depth.

As a general rule, we recommend against placing our table lamps on our smaller accent tables.A heavy ceramic or alabaster table lamp on a lightweight table could be a recipe for tipover-and sadness-but a slender lamp that doesn’t weigh as much could give you the visual scale you need without the heft. A shade that lands higher than eye level tends to give you too much glare when you’re trying to read or watch TV. Check it against the “footprint to base of shade” measurement located in Additional Details on our product pages. Sit on your sofa or bed and measure from the seating surface to your eye level that’s about where the bottom of your lamp shade should land.

The widest part of your lamp’s shade should be no wider than your tabletop.

Choose a table lamp that, from base to finial, is no more than 1.5 times taller than your table.

How big should a lamp be on a table?įor lamps placed on end tables and night tables:

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