What should I look for when choosing a table lamp?

Situation # 1 - Fixture for the schoolchild

For the child to be able to do lessons at night, and his vision did not deteriorate, you need in addition to the main lighting in the children's room to put on the desk local lighting in the form of a table lamp.

There are several important points that you should consider when choosing:

• Table lamps can be with a plastic, metal or glass lampshade. In your case, it is best to choose a structure of high-quality plastic. This is due to the fact that the metal quickly heats up and can burn the child, and the glass is fragile and can also endanger the first-grader.
• Do not choose a bright lamp, becauseshe will distract the child from school. It is believed that it does not load the interior and at the same time, the green color is not too obvious, which we recommend to you.
• The lamp itself can be equipped with incandescent lamps, LED or fluorescent light sources. Ilyich's lamp is better not to choose, becausethey radiate not very bright light and at the same time have a short service life. Energy-saving lamps are very dangerous if they break up, so do not choose a table lamp, if this option is installed bulbs. The last option - LEDs, the most rational and also economical, so we recommend for the student to choose a desktop LED lamp, which will provide high-quality coverage of the table and not spoil the learning process.
• The base of the luminaire can be represented by an ordinary stand on the table or a kind of clamp( fixed on the side of the table top, as shown in the photo below).We advise you to choose a luminaire with the second variant of execution, tk.in this case the table will not be so cluttered, and besides the risk to push the product off the table will be reduced to a minimum.

• Well, the last important advice - for a student, better buy a model with a built-in dimmer( dimmer), which will allow the child to independently choose the intensity of lighting and make it comfortable for study.

That's all the recommendations that will allow you to choose the right table lamp for your child's education! Next, we'll talk about simpler situations - choosing a lamp for reading in the bedroom and working in the office.

Situation # 2 - Night light in the bedroom

If you decide to choose a table lamp to make it a bedside night lamp, then there is no need to take care of good quality lighting. The main task of the lamp in this case is to make soft lighting in a small radius from itself, which will allow reading the book in the evening. Do not forget about another important point - bedside night light should be combined with the interior of the bedroom and visually complement it. In this case, we recommend readers of the site Sam Electric to select a lamp with a beautiful lampshade, dimmer and a matte lamp that will not "hit the eyes."

Another important point - if you do not need a night light for reading, and only will be used in reality as a night lamp, you can choose a model with an original design, for example, in the form of a magic ball.

Situation # 3 - Office Assistant

Well, the last option is in the office for lighting the desk, in particular the area near the computer. In this case, there can be no designer lampshades, the main thing is that the lamp should be well-lit and not inconvenient.

We recommend that when choosing a table lamp for work, consider these tips:

1. The ceiling should create a diffusing bright light.
2. If the lamp will decorate the desk of your office, it is better to choose such manufacturing options as stone, glass, metal and even brass.
3. Again, it is better to abandon fluorescent light bulbs, which, if damaged, can become a source of evaporation of mercury hazardous for humans.
4. Does not prevent the presence of a dimmer. By the way, in this case you need to use special dimmable LED light bulbs.

A very interesting model of a desk lamp for an office is considered on video:

That's all I wanted to tell you about how to choose a table lamp for schoolboy reading and office work. By the way, in the first and last case it is recommended to select light bulbs with the "LTB" index, which means - a warm white glow that is as close as possible to daylight!

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