5 Popular Lamp Shade Designs for Your Home Office

Lamp shades are stylish and beautiful elements of your home office furniture. In order to create a compelling décor statement with your lamp shades, you must take care to coordinate these with your furniture and upholstery. A new lamp shade lets you add a personal touch to your color scheme and fabric design. While choosing lamp shades for your home office interiors, there are a few things to be kept in mind.

Drum Shaped Lamp Shades: A very popular lamp shade design for your home office furniture that you would find in almost every stylish home design magazine, not to mention most households, is the barrel or drum shaped lamp shades. These lamp shades not only give out ample light but are also the central focus of a room due to their generous size and distinctive style.

Floor Lamps: When it comes to setting the right mood in a room, floor lamps add a touch of style and class to your home office furniture. When choosing a floor lamp, you should take into consideration the overall décor of the room. For modern décor, you should look for contemporary floor lamps like Japanese paper lamps and for a more traditional setting, you should select an antique style lamp like a Tiffany-style floor lamp.

Contemporary Lamp Shades: Contemporary lamp shades come in a wide range of styles and can be used as décor elements too. These lamp shades have added safety and portability features making them easier to use and place around your home office.

Bell Shaped Lamp Shades: Bell lamp shades have an antique appeal which makes for timeless elegant decor. Bell lamp shades are the most popular and the most versatile; their dramatic lighting creates ideal décor accessories. These lamp shades are available in a range of colors to blend with your interiors. Use a scallop-bottom bell lamp shade when pairing with antique home office furniture. A square bell lamp would be perfect in a more contemporary setting.
Chandelier Lamp Shades: The chandelier lamp shade can add opulent charm to your home office furniture and bring soft luminosity to the room. You have two options – ‘clip on’ type shade or ‘Gimbel’ style shades with rings that fit into the chandelier’s lamp holder. Both types are usually available in 7-inch shades.