What is our love of desk lamps all about? Aren’t they just used for lighting paper on a desk? Definitely not! Desk lamps are versatile lights that have become something to adore for their design as well as their light.

Lamps have a major role to play in the illumination of every home, and not just for lighting our way. Intelligently designed and placed lights can create just the right mood, illumine that special painting, and throw those less than beautiful pieces into shadow.

A good desk lamp will give you the option to be very flexible with your lighting scheme. Some styles of contemporary desk lamps are designed to be small affairs making moving them a simple task. Another advantage of a desk lamp is the installation, simply plug and play as long as you have a local electrical socket!

Up to date desk lamps still feature design parts from those original desk lamp styles. They still all seem to feature the flexibility of the old style desk lamps it is just taken to another level to enable the light to be directed in an almost endless amount of directions.

The old method of turning your desk lamp on and off was the toggle switch in the power cable but things have moved on with desk lamps that can be dimmed just by touching the base. The choices of light bulbs have also been expanded with halogen, fluorescent and now LED light bulbs giving a huge amount of choice.

Children love a good desk lamp and are ideal for use in a den or bedside light, the touch sensitive desk lamps also make a great party piece to impress their friends. With many vibrant styles and designs available they are spoilt for choice.

There is something for the young adults in the house particularly those who have left that school homework until the last minute. A desk lamp is great for giving the light needed in the early hours of the morning and allowing the rest of the house to sleep undisturbed.

I don’t think there is a house out there that doesn’t have a desk lamp of some shape or form. They are extremely flexible allowing you to move them around the house easily. Desk lamps never seem to get put out for rubbish as there is always a use for that tatty old desk lamp in the garage or shed!

Duncan Munday has invested a lot of years in the lighting design business and has seen lighting fads come and go. He has collected together some of the most contemporary fads with his website desk lamp UK.