Floor lamps make a versatile addition to homes and businesses, with the added luxury of being easy to manoeuvre around a room. Explore our range of modern and traditional floor lamps.
A floor lamp is the most forgiving light you can buy: no electrician, no drilling, just a pool of warm light wherever you put it, and the freedom to move it when the room changes. Every comfortable sitting room has at least one; most have a corner quietly asking for another.
Our floor lamps are made and restored in our Herefordshire workshop, as we have done since 1982, from made-to-order designs to genuine one-offs: an Art Deco floor lamp, a tri-footed brass floor lamp, a mid-20th century search lamp, a pair of Corinthian column floor lamps. Every piece is wired and tested to current standards before it leaves the workshop.
The two jobs a floor lamp does best: reading light beside a chair, with the shade’s bottom edge around shoulder height when seated, and filling the dead corner that makes a room feel unfinished. Tell us where the lamp is going and we will help you choose honestly.
The best living room floor lamp fills the room’s dead corner or arcs over a reading chair, putting warm light at sitting height where the ceiling light never reaches. Choose a design that matches the room’s character and a warm dimmable bulb. Fritz Fryer makes and restores floor lamps in Herefordshire.
A reading floor lamp wants a height that puts the shade’s bottom edge around your shoulder when seated, and ideally an adjustable arm or head to angle light onto the page. Pair it with a warm, bright-enough LED, around 400 to 800 lumens, dimmable for evenings. We will advise on the right piece for your chair.
For sitting rooms, a floor lamp of 1.4 to 1.7 metres puts light at a comfortable height beside a chair or sofa; reading lamps can sit lower where the shade directs light onto the page. The test is glare: seated, you should not see the bulb. Tell us your seating and we will advise.
Yes. Every vintage and one-off floor lamp we sell is stripped, rewired in line with current standards and safety-tested in our workshop before sale. Untested vintage lamps from markets and dealers should always be professionally rewired before use; ours arrive ready to plug in.
Yes. All our floor lamps take LED bulbs and dim normally with dimmable LEDs on a compatible dimmer, or with a plug-in dimmer where rewiring is not wanted, so the same lamp can be reading light and evening glow. We can recommend bulb and dimmer pairings for each piece.
The two best spots: beside the reading chair, angled onto the page, and in the corner that goes dead after dark, where a lamp adds depth to the whole room. Flanking a sofa or fireplace with a pair is the classic third. The rule is simple: put warm light where you sit, not where you walk.
Many of our floor lamps are made to order in our Herefordshire workshop, so finishes can be matched to your scheme. Our restored and one-off pieces are single items, sold as they are, and we are always clear which is which. Tell us what the room needs and we will point you honestly.
Made-to-order floor lamps are priced comparably with premium retail brands; restored one-offs are priced individually by rarity and condition. What you are buying is solid materials, handmaking or hand restoration in Herefordshire, and a lamp built to last decades rather than seasons.
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