That £2 lamp from IKEA not doing it for you any more? Here's some lights you can totally afford which'll make your place look ace.
*****This cute little guy
You’re too old for a nightlight (right?) but you’re deffos not too old for a spot of the old ‘mood lighting’ as the kids are calling it these days. This squirrel here is the perfect pal to take the atmosphere in your room from stark and clinical to hushed and sexy, just with a flick of the switch. In the non-sexy periods of your life, he’ll just look like a kitsch ornament. Clever squirrel.
This little guy might not look like much. In fact, he looks like he belongs in a crappy kids’ spaceship model project but it’ll be the best purchase you make in a long time. Stick him in cupboards (it’s got it’s own adhesive so you don’t even have to buy tape) to put an end to scrabbling frantically through all 24 items of black clothing you have in your wardrobe to find one stupid t-shirt.
YESSSS we’ve wanted a neon light since Adam Sandler lit his kid’s bedroom with a trashy ‘Live Nudes’ number all the way back in Big Daddy. This one is thankfully more contemporary and classy. TBH though you can probably can’t afford a whole bunch so if you were planning on spelling anything out you’d probably better stick to two letter words. Ax? Yo? Hm? The possibilities are (definitely not) endless.
As much as we pretend that the whole New York Loft vibe is totally lame ‘I just like clutter too much!’ secretly we’re lying and it’s everything we’ve ever wanted and more. In fact we’d sell our grandma for a piece of that sweet, sweet loft action. This lightbulb sure as hell isn’t going to transform your disaster of a living room into New York chic but it at least means if you lie down flat on your back and stare at the ceiling you’ll get the tiniest sencs of what it’s like to live somewhere like here.
Outside lighting turned out not to be such a stupid idea ever since you slipped in the fox poo and landed face down in the ashes from your last barbecue, but there’s no way you’re going to get one of those fixed-to-the wall light jobbies, who’s got the first idea how to put that up? Instead, channel Glastonbury Festival (on the first day, before it goes wrong) and turn your garden into a crude knock-off of this
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.