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While the cold season is synonymous with darker mornings and evenings, the fast approaching winter also means many of us will start to suffer from low mood and low energy. To combat this winter sadness, also known as Seasonal Affective Disorder, it’s often recommended to use lighting to boost your mood.

From a table lamp in the corner of your living room, to an overarching floor lamp in your bedroom, additional light adds a feeling of calm and warmth in autumn and winter months, when natural light isn’t particularly bright. But lamps don’t just have to be functional, they can be decorative too.

‘Lighting should evolve throughout the day. The nights are drawing in fast, but it can be pretty dull in the daytime too, so don’t be afraid to use your ceiling lights in the day to brighten the room and lift your mood,’ says Niki Wright, co-founder of lighting design studio, lights&lamps.

She advises: ‘As the day turns to evening start to add light with lamps on a side table or worktop or floor lamps to lighten a corner. When it’s finally time to sit back and relax, switch off the ceiling pendant or chandelier, dim the floor lamp and make your living area a cosy cave by layering two or three or several table lamps around the room at different heights; adding practical light without taking from the ambience.’

Wright suggests different lamps in different materials can be a key part of an interior scheme when most other accessories aren’t easily seen. ‘A solid shade can create a dramatic downlight, whilst a soft linen shade can allow a brighter ambient light whilst adding beautiful textures.’

She also adds that multiple table or bedside lamps don’t have to match. ‘Just two different styles and heights can make for a much interesting and effective lighting scheme’.

So let’s take a look at our favourite lamps…

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Feeling depressed by cold, dark weather? 11 table lamps that will boost your mood this winter