Hello, I live in Alaska where it gets dark for a long time during winter. On top of that, my living room has no ceiling lighting and cannot really afford right now to have any wired in. My living room is roughly 15’x15’ with a dining room right next to it that does heave ceiling lighting already.
Currently we use the following lamps:
2xfloor lamps with upward facing lighting in a opaque glass shade, 2 bulbs each, daylight, 1100 lumens each
1xfloor lamp with 3 separate lighting fixtures that we can direct each inside an opaque glass shade, each bulb is 800 lumens
1xtable lamp with a traditional fabric-like shade with a single bulb, 1100 lumen
It does not seem like its enough. It does not seem like I am getting the room filled enough but rather just having light hot spots.
What may be posing a challenge is my walls are textured with depth to them (not very deep but deep enough to change lighting a bit).
Any thoughts on a different floor lamp style that would do a better job? Would a downward facing shade style (more traditional) fill the room better?
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big fan of torchiere floor lamps – best for general ambient lighting in the evenings… also gives light to most of the room its placed in, especially high ceiling spots (like here in NYC)
What’s going on in the room, fixtures/furnishings-wise? Do you have lots of dark woods/stone and dark color upholstery? Do you have any window treatments, or are they looking like black squares? Putting light on the ceiling/walls is the right approach, but having lots of light color surfaces (and eliminating dark ones) for light to bounce off of could help, too.
I had a consulting job in Nome and spent about a week there a month for year, the darkness was quite an experience.
@Abi
The floor is a pho wood that is a medium color (not dark or bright specifically, I don’t know my woods to tell you what type lol). Couch is dark gray, entertainment center black. So furniture is darker. But we have a brightly colored rug in the middle. The window gets good sunlight in day time but otherwise is useless for light lol. We usually have it covered with a lighter blue
Gray curtain.
