Overhead lighting does the bedroom no favours at the end of the day. The problem is not that people do not care, it is that the wrong lamp gets chosen in a hurry and then everyone just lives with it. A bedroom lamp needs to earn its place on two counts: the light it casts and the way it looks doing it. Too bright and the room never properly winds down. Too dim and you are squinting at a book. The base matters too. Something with weight and presence rather than the kind of thing that looks temporary, like it arrived from a student flat and never left.

We have been looking at lamps that get the warmth right, that sit well on a bedside table without dominating it, and that look considered rather than convenient. Ceramic bases, textured shades, proportions that actually work with a standard table height. These are the ones that change what evenings in a bedroom feel like.