Green is having a proper moment in interiors and floor lamps are where it lands best. A green floor lamp does something a neutral one simply cannot. It reads as a colour choice, a considered one, which means the whole room feels more intentional around it. Bottle green, sage, forest, olive. Each sits differently in a space and the shade you choose will do more work than you might expect.

What we have looked for here goes beyond colour. The base needs weight and presence. The shade needs to diffuse light in a way that feels warm rather than clinical. And the proportions have to work in a real room, next to a real sofa, not just in a styled photograph. A floor lamp earns its spot when it looks right switched off as well as on.

These are the green floor lamps we would actually buy. Each one has been chosen because it adds something and holds its own.