This is not a design blog, and I’m not plugging products for profit, but I just have to tell you about these 365+ Lunta lamps I got last week at IKEA. I am so in love with them!
These are incredibly solid, functional and most importantly for those of us with New York City apartments, they fit into narrow spaces. In my case, that’s next to the den sofa where my previous lamps’ shade dimensions precluded opening the closet door all the way. (Guess I’ll have to come up with another reason now for why that closet is such a mess…)
These lamps give great light, can officially handle up to a 100 W bulb (as opposed to me using the 100W even though they say don’t use anything higher than 75W and feeling nervous that I am going to blow it up or start a fire) and the switch (which is easily reached about halfway up the lamp) is also a dimmer! With a price tag of $99 apiece, they out-function, out-style and outshine every other lamp I have ever bought, some which came at a much higher price tag.
Of course, all of this could just be me over-reacting to the fact that I no longer have to crawl next to the sofa to pull or put the plug out of or into the surge protector, which was how we were turning our previous lamp on and off since the switch broke over a year ago …
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UPDATE- We have had to replace each lamp once since I posted this, due to spontaneous shorting out of the bulb. We had the electrical outlet changed, use a surge protector and it still happened again. Our building insists it is a lamp issue and not an outlet problem. I have no idea which it is. If anyone else has had similar issues with these lamps, let me know. To Ikea’s credit, they replaced the first one free of charge, but we were on our own the second time.
Oh my! I barely recognized my guest room! Do I have a new pullout sofa for visits? The den looks beautiful! And the lamps are gorgeous.
XO, OBS Housekeeper
It’s wonderful to solve a nagging problem; life gets so much better. I just rearranged my living room and can’t believe the difference in space and function we now have…I just wish I’d done it sooner!
These are really great lamps; I especially like how they draw the eye upward. I may have to give IKEA another look!
^^weirdness!
The room looks so inviting! I especially like the rug 🙂
the rug is a “Dösemealti” from turkey. It is made by nomads (or at least, former nomads – 20 years ago you could still find nomads there, by now I do not know) in the mountains closed to Antalya.
Ursula –
Youe ar right on! My husband brought that rug back form Turkey, where he bought it in a bazaar in Istanbul after having tea with the merchant there.
Good eye!
Peggy
they look great! and dimmers, too!
one of these days, i’ve got to do something about the lighting in my home office…
Thanks to all the tiny apartments with tiny rooms over here….
Hey – they’re nice! I’m surprised they’re from IKEA… they look much more upmarket!
🙂
I just purchased a Lunta lamp in Feb 2014 in Dubai. Within a month I started having similar problems with this lamp operating. I took it back to Ikea and the lamp worked fine in the store. I got the lamp back home, made some suggested adjustments, and things were fine for a bit….only a bit. To date, I continue to have problems, but I have been able to get the lamp to work when needed. Dubai is a1.5 hour drive away so somewhat of a hassle. I am glad I found your posting. I am not imagining things!