The best lamps: desk, reading, sunset and SAD

LED lights, generally speaking, offer more light and are more efficient than single bulbs. The downside can be that they often look harsher than a singular bulb. However, with ten different brightness levels, each scenario has a light setting. The swingarm is clampable to the desk, so it saves on desk space, and it’s adjustable in height and reaches to make the most of your room.

Available in a wide range of colours, this ANYDAY desk lamp by John Lewis is sure to be a hit. You’ll have to go manual with the shade of white, which comes from choosing a bulb to suit you, but its classic look and design, combined with colours, is timeless.

Mix the ANYDAY above with the LED desk lamp above, and you get the Elliot Desk Lamp. The Elliot has a classical style but is much bigger than the ANYDAY, with a small footprint taking up your desk space. Adjustable in height and reach, it will look very classy on the corner of your desk.

Keep everything organised and in one space for a tidy desk and tidy mind. This lamp will charge your phone, hold your pencils and pens and provide light. While it takes up a slightly larger footprint on your workspace, at least it will have things like your phone. The lamp is bendable and collapsible.

A portable slim, portable light therapy solution, meaning you can take it to the office or if you’re working away. Producing 10,000 lux at 16cm with a large face, 20 x 28 cm, 30 minutes is recommended to help combat ‘Winter Blues’ and SAD.

Simulating natural daylight of 10,000 lux at a distance of 10cm, this Beurer lamp is powerful and compact, easy to use with the press of a single button to turn it on and off. Great for use while working in your home office in the winter.

Looking more like a mirror than a light, it’s a feature to have on the table. Its design means it’ll be less of an eyesore and more of a feature to most tables around the home. It offers an excellent way to look at something functional and pleasant.

Just take out your old bulb; as long as it’s a bayonet fitting, this one goes in its place. Super easy to install, and as long as you have a smart device in your home, like a Google Home, Nest, or Alexa, you can control the lights just by talking to your smart device. The lights are also controllable from an app, meaning you can change their colour to any hue and brightness.

Perfect for a strip of light under your sofa, behind your TV, computer set up or under shelving. These light strips create an ideal addition to the ambience. Again you can control them with your smart speaker or an App. They will connect for up to 10m of strip lighting.

Take wall art to a whole new lit-up level. These slot into each other to create the perfect lighting set-up for any feature wall, kids’ playroom, dining room, well, any room really – these really brighten things up and can be changed by your smart speaker and even respond to music.

A simple solution to reading at night is dangling one of these around your neck; they clip more than dangle so that you can see what you’re reading. However, you can choose from three different colour options, yellow, warm white and cool bright, meaning they’re better for other times of the day.

Super simple double LED clip-on reading light. Just clip it to the hardback of your book for support. You can clip it to several pages if your book isn’t a hardback, but this doesn’t always provide vast amounts of support and can leave you with a floppy light.

More for your bed than your book, this will clip onto your bedframe or a bedside table to give you the reading light you desire. USB rechargeable with a flexible neck to get the light in the correct position; a simple touch of the lamp will turn it on and off.

Made with an optical glass lens, as opposed to an acrylic lens, with a sturdy aluminium alloy shell, this lamp claims to be brighter than its rivals, too, for those even brighter sunsets for your Instagram feed.

With a USB plug, you can take this lamp on the go to create sunsets anywhere and even power it with your laptop if you wanted to. A thickened aluminium base provides a sturdy stand, and a 360-degree adjustable stand leading up to the lamp means you can project anywhere.

Plot twist: This sunset lamp has four different lighting modes. Yes, you can make your sunset in different ways, the standard OG, a Rainbow, Sunset Red and Sunlight. The manufacturer claims this lamp has more power, with a steel steering head for durability and an optical crystal lens over a plastic or acrylic one.