Raise your hand if you have a Lack shelf in your home. We thought so. Simple design that fits in anywhere, it's the basic white shirt of decorating. We think that these bookcase lights are destined to become just as ubiquitous as those shelves...
Lack Clamp Bookcase Lighting from Ikea
Not that they need to be used together. But a friend is considering just this Lack triple header in place of night tables in her very small and narrow bedroom. A Lack shelf above the bed to hold current reading, an alarm clock, a knick knack or two and these lights, one for her and one for her husband, to let them read in bed. SarahC, over at ATChicago, used a similar arrangement in the bedroom in her old apartment.
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it doesn't say, but...batteries or what? does light diodes mean some weird watch battery or something? :)
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It looks like it has a cord, it quotes a cord length and if you look at the picture on the Ikea site you can juuuuust barely make the cords out along the bottom. The light diodes are what they use in place of a common bulb - they're supposed to last longer.
Thanks for linking to SarahC's apartment, I am 100% going to knock off that idea because our bedroom is really a tad too small to have bedside tables and we've been forcing the issue because we aren't clever enough to think of something like this ;)
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I was thinking about purchasing these for my (future) expedit, but i hesitated when I saw them at my local ikea.
First, the cord is quite long and is a dirty white color, which I'm not sure how to hide against the black-brown unit.
Second, the plug (which I noticed was standard among many other of the lighting fixtures) was a dark translucent plastic which showed the (green) circuitry.
(btw, the cord and the plug are two separate parts).
Finally, from a safety stand point, I noticed that the plug was etl tested - which really made me pause - I'd feel a whole lot safer if the plug was tested by CSA or UL - which I did notice that some of the plugs were.
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