When purchasing a children’s light, it is necessary to remember that a child might spend the whole day in a room doing various activities therefore, lighting should be chosen accordingly.
A lamp mustn’t dazzle a child
In the middle of a children’s room it is suitable to place a ceiling light or a chandelier (you can read more in the article How to choose a children’s chandelier), but also equally important is to illuminate the space by a bed and mainly a desk. We don’t recommend buying floor lamps or other lights with long cables as a child might trip over them. Thus, wall lights can be used, but the most suitable are children’s lamps. You can move them freely on a desk and that way change a direction and intensity of the light. You will especially appreciate a flexibility of such lamps when writing. To avoid shading, a right-hander should have a lamp on the left side and on the contrary a left-hander on the right side of a desk. You also have to make sure that a lamp doesn’t dazzle a child. A lamp has to have an opaque lampshade and a light bulb mustn’t stick out of a lamp. As far as a height of a lamp is concerned, it is recommended that the light illuminates the desk from a height of about 30 cm (depending on how tall a child is) and an angle of incidence should be between 60 and 70 degrees. Here it is advisable when a child can adjust a beam angle as needed. Therefore, we recommend buying children’s lamps with a flexible arm.
At our online store, you can choose from various children’s lamps of different shapes and colors. You can pick a simple design of lamp only with a picture on a lampshade or a lamp, which imitates a shape of some animal. Moreover, motifs of some lamps are the same also for ceiling lights and chandeliers, so the whole children’s room will be nicely unified.
Along with a kids lamp, you will probably also buy a light source, which will be screwed in a lamp. The most suitable are LED light bulbs. The reason for that is that they are energy-efficient and provide different colors of light. Choose from those light bulbs, which have sufficient luminosity, recommended lighting intensity value for writing is 500 lx (you can read more about it in the article How powerful light bulb do I need?
And two more advice in the end: A lamp must stand on a firm and flat surface so that it doesn’t fall. What is also good is when there is another light shining along with a lamp. This prevents from sudden light transition, which leads to eye fatigue.
