Floor Lamps

Floor Lamps

Tall Floor Lamps 

Tall floor lamps, or floor standing lamps, are a great decor addition to any room in your home. Whether you're searching for standing lamps for living rooms, bedrooms or dens, you'll find a tall lamp for every style and budget in our extensive collection. A floor lamp creates a cozy ambiance in any room, provide illumination for reading or work, and serve as a piece of functional art.

Looking for energy efficient standing lamps? We've got those too - many of the reading pole lamps we carry are fluorescent or LED, so they conserve energy and heat. Whether lighting your favorite corner or standing next to your favorite chair, tall lamps add visual interest while shining a gentle light on your favorite activities.

Standing Lamps Decor Tips

• Versatility - Don't be afraid to try out different locations for your standing lamps. A floor lamp is fairly lightweight, so it's easy to move them around a room to find the right spot. Even the extra tall floor lamps we carry are portable, so go ahead and experiment with changing up the look of your room.
• Quick and Easy - Tall floor lamps are a quick way to transform a room. Add a stand-up lamp and you can enjoy a whole new feel and look, without busting your budget. A new lamp draws attention to the space, so consider the placement and use when choosing your new lamp's location. 
• The Best Home Lighting Brands - LampsUSA offers the best lighting brands at great prices, including Signature Design by Ashley, Lite Source, Laura Ashley, Dimond, StyleCraft and many more.

How to Choose Standing Lamps

Are you going to be using a stick floor lamp for reading light? Looking for living room floor lamps to add height and visual interest to your existing decor? Want to balance out a bare corner in your room with an extra tall floor lamp? Height, style, and light output (wattage or lumens) are all elements you'll want to consider when shopping for standing lamps. View our Floor Lamps Buying Guide for additional tips.

Tall Floor Lamps & Other Styles

At LampsUSA, you'll find a range of beautiful standing lamps for every taste. Create a decor that matches your personality and taste, by choosing among our selection of portable floor standing lamps. Stylish choices include arc floor lamps, which look great next to a couch, or behind a reading chair. We also offer a wide collection of unique torchieres, mid-century modern arc designs, and statement pieces like tripod floor lamps. Our most popular collection is Modern Floor Lamps, to update your room quickly and add unmatched style.

Torchiere lamps project light to the ceiling and add height to your existing decor scheme. A torchier lamp can create a good ambience in a room. Wooden floor lamps - and even floor lamps with shelves - combine function and design beautifully. Among the large array of modern floor lamps and other lighting styles at Lamps USA, you'll find the right standing lamp to make your space come to life.

Tall floor lamp sizes

You'll find that a floor lamp tends to be fairly tall, ranging from around 5 to 7 feet. This places the main light fixture around eye level. The shade on the floor lamp will then help to shield your eyes from bulb glare. In the case of a floor torchiere lamp, the shade will direct light upwards away from your eyes.

Generally speaking most floor lamps are around the same height as a person, with a switch to operate them in the upper half the pole. Or alternatively they may be operated by a foot switch, where you simple step on the switch to change modes. Since the floor lamp is quite tall, it will tend to shed light onto the ceiling and diffuse it into the room, which means that a floor lamp is a way to add ambient lighting to a room.

Floor lamps vs Torchieres vs Reading lamps

While a torch style lamp directs almost all its light onto the ceiling, producing an ambient background reflected light, floor lamps with traditional lamp shades will emit light both upwards and downwards. The downward light can be useful near to or over a chair or seating area, such as for reading a book or sitting to perform crafts.

If what you want is to focus on downward light only, and perhaps to position the light for tasks, then a floor reading lamp may be better suited. Note that most reading lamps tend to be shorter since they position the light where you'd want it over a shoulder when you are sitting down. These include swing-arm pharmacy lamps.

• For complete ambient light, choose a torchiere lamp.
• For ambient and local area light choose a traditional floor lamp with a shade.
• For focused reading and maximum light below the lamp, choose a floor reading lamp.