![]() And Dan never even turned his light on because he couldn’t reach the switch on the cord. I always felt like our nightstands were cluttered and we didn’t have room for anything. With our new sconces, we had to drill holes into the wall, and if we ever want to get different ones, the holes may not match up the same.īelow is a recent photo of our bedroom when we had lamps. If you want to change out your lighting, it’s much easier to do when you have lamps. Even though you can get plug in sconces, a lot of people don’t like the look of visible cords. Obviously if you’re using table lamps you wouldn’t need to have your lighting hard wired into the wall. This should be considered more closely when your sconce has a swing arm. Just be careful not to place the light too close to where your face is or you’ll feel like you’re under a spot light. With the light coming closer to your head, you’re going to have much better lighting when reading. Or you can measure from the floor to between 50″-60″ to the top of the fixture. That is where the bottom of the shade should go. If you’ve ever wondered how high to place your bedroom wall sconces – the general rule of thumb is to sit up straight in your bed and measure from the floor to about 3″-4″above your shoulder. I don’t have to struggle every night to find it and it’s one of those little things that makes such a big difference. With our new sconces, the switch is still on the cord, but because it’s hanging on the wall, it’s so much easier to reach. I did love our table lamps but they were SO hard to turn on and off! The switch was on the cord and it always got stuck behind my nightstand and I could never reach it. ![]() Now this might not be true for every single wall sconce, but it was for ours. With your lighting attached to the wall, it opens up a lot more space on your nightstand for larger decor items and places to put things like a glass of water or other night time essentials you use. This is probably the most obvious advantage to having wall sconces. I definitely think we could have gone larger, but our nightstands aren’t super big so I wanted to keep things proportionate there. ![]() Our master bedroom is quite large and there is a lot of white space behind our bed so that gave us plenty of room to bring in some sconces. Those curves are so sexy aren’t they?! They’re modern but the shape softens them up a bit and creates the perfect aesthetic. My favorite part about these is their side profile. And I really don’t mind having the black cord showing. ![]() But as soon as I saw these, I fell in love. Since we didn’t want to pay an electrician to hardwire new lighting, we went with plug ins which limited our selection a bit. We recently got these gorgeous Mitzi Lindsay Wall Sconces and I’m obsessed. Now that we’ve had both sconces and table lamps, I want to talk through some of the pros and cons of each! I love the look of wall sconces in the bedroom and since we have so much wall space behind our bed, I thought they would work perfectly. I’ve been thinking about changing up the bedside lighting in our master for a while now and I finally jumped in and did it. This post is sponsored by Mitzi by Hudson Valley Lighting ![]()
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