Two matching lamps in the bedroom? Fuggedaboutit! For a lamp lover, the bedroom's a great place to mix it up. Combining table lamps, office lamps, sconces, standing lamps — even chandeliers — together can show off your style, shave a little off your bedroom budget and keep it modern. Our favorite new trend: mixing a standing lamp with a task or table lamp.
- A utilitarian task lamp on one side, an ornate standing lamp on the other is just the finishing touch that makes this eclectic bedroom work.
- My favorite standing lamp from IKEA is the focal point in this bedroom. A table lamp adds an additional lighting option.
- A chrome standing lamp and a square tailored modern lamp underline contemporary bachelor style.
- The exuberant standing lamp makes this room sing.
- A chandelier, a task lamp and a bedside lamp play well together in this bedroom.
Images: Skona Hem; Bethany Nauert from Bernice & Eugene's DTLA Loft on a Budget; Mat Sanders from Paul's Perfectly Suited Studio; Mark Fugarino from Mark's Eclectic Evolution; Kyle Freeman from Maureen & Lui's Pondside Lily Pad
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Comments (23)
Love the way these look! In our master the nightstands don't match, but the lamps do.
This is such an interesting photo. I've wondered about using a floor lamp next to a bed. I think it most cases it would look odd, but this pic proves that it can work in the right space.
I think these mismatched examples go too far, although I can understand that two people may have their own lighting preferences. The effect is so random, though! We have two different lamp bases, each made by Marshall Studios, with identical shades:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/visualingual/2544389767/in/set-72157594505190197/
I think the result avoids a matchy-matchy look but still seems balanced and cohesive.
I like it!
Our bedside tables match but our lamps don't. I have a large curvy teal wooden lamp with a velvet shade on my husband's side and a smaller glass art deco lamp with a organza shade on mine. I like to think of them as male and female lamps...
We used to have mismatched lamps - both frosted glass but his square and simple, mine round and flowery. Until I dropped my mobile phone on mine and smashed it!
You're giving me a feng shui heart attack! ;-D
But I do love the susani on the first pic's bed...
I notice many times that the photo looks beautiful, but a floor lamp that high is silly. I am an avid reader and need a good size night stand for books and a great reading light. My lighting is a beautiful Haeger Pottery Egg design in yellow.
nope, not for me.
Looking at the photo's I just want to throw out one of the lamps in each one... there always seems to be one that really goes with the space and the other is completely out of place.
I'm ok with them not being matchy-matchy, but I'd want them to be the same style. That mid-century floor lamp in the corner is killing me for a bedroom. I think they need to blend together at least -- same finish, color, etc. Our nightstands don't match, but the lamps do, like others have said. We had mismatching ones for awhile and it just felt messy/cluttery.
Those big floor lamps as bedside lamps is kind of selfish unless there's only one person sleeping in the room.
Different lamps for different needs! Great ideas that look great.
... you know, I think I saw at least 3 floor lamps just like the one in the first photo (the base, anyway; bunch of different/no shades) when I was in the poconos a couple of weeks ago. Supposedly, I was there to ski, but yet again I went to flea markets and antique malls instead. :p
Our bedside tables match as well, but the lamps don't. In the end, being able to read in bed trumps aesthetics.
@VisualLingualLtd: I love your bedroom, and your idea for bedside lamps! That's some mismatching I could live with!
The other rooms are nice, and I like the idea of mismatched lamps, but for me they'd have to be more similar in scale and style. But this post definitely made me want to run out and replace my bedside lamps immediately!
Loving this idea! We only have one bedside table and I need more light for reading in bed....I toyed with the idea of a floor lamp on my side and after seeing how it works, I'm going for it!
i'm all about mismatching, but that one big overhead one is a bit too much for gearing down at the end of the day. like the other examples
I think this works best in a bedroom that isn't symmetrical to begin with. I think that's why the first photo (IMO) works the best.
@VisuaLingualLtd - I like your bedroom, and your lamps, but you might as well have purchased the same lamp for both sides of the bed - everything else is so symmetrical that your eye is fooled into thinking the lamps are identical. I had to look twice to even realize they were different.
Were people really anxious about having mismatched lamps?
Have to say, I love all these interiors more than the ones featuring matched bedside tables (and usually lamps).
where is the one from the second photo from??????
My husband and I have mismatched lamps in our bedroom too. I like it. Hey, he has his style I have mine. I'm thinking our mismatching then again because we are moving to another house.