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Light Up Your Dark Space with a Torchiere Floor Lamp

When shopping for lighting, it's important to consider the needs of your space. Do you need more light in general? Focused light? Soft light? By deciding what kind of lighting you need, it becomes much easier to furnish your space appropriately with lamps or fixtures. When it comes to illuminating a large, dark room, there's one type of lamp that could work incredibly well to set the mood and tone of the space while giving practical illumination. That type of lamp is the torchiere floor lamp.

What exactly is a torchiere?

Unlike traditional floor lamps that cast a shallow pool of light, torchieres allow for you to light up a dark room by throwing light toward the ceiling, which bounces off to illuminate the rest of your space. The key is in the overall design.

Torchiere floor lamps feature a design that offers an open fixture toward the top. Instead of the shade facing downward toward the floor, torchiere floor lamps have shades that face upward toward the ceiling. Sometimes, in different models of torchiere, you may also find a few downward facing shades that can be used like a swing arm lamp for additional light.

But basically, your torchiere is designed to furnish a larger, darker space with enough light so that you can work, relax, watch movies, dine, or just enjoy your time comfortably. Torchiere floor lamps also work particularly well in rooms without ceiling fixtures.

Choosing a Torchiere

When you're shopping for a torchiere floor lamp, it's best to consider these three things:

1. Where will it be used?
2. What is the decor of that space?
3. What budget are you working with?

By answering these three questions, it'll be easy to find the torchiere that best fits your needs. Not to mention, it should take all of the hassle and frustration out of shopping for the right torchiere to fit your space. Luckily, at Lighting Concepts, we have a huge selection of torchiere floor lamps to satisfy these three questions, and any more you might have. Shop our selection today and save.