Are Tripod lamps really THAT great?

24 Sep

Tripod (or three-legged) lamps are popping up everywhere and I mean everywhere. It’s virtually impossible to flick though more than a few pages in a home decorating magazine these days without coming across an interior design scheme featuring a tripod lamp. It’s clearly a must have in the decorating world at the moment! Here are a just a couple of examples to show you what I mean:

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These three-legged little creatures have also managed to creep into a couple of posts here at Trendey, check out Mia’s posts Please Be Seated and Inspirational Rooms at Old School House. – Spooky how they get about!

So are the tripods really that great? Well, I am not completely convinced. I think they are nice enough – I particularly like the more industrial looking examples and those that look a bit like spotlights from some old Hollywood movie set – but I feel that they are just a bit OVERLY trendy just now and that makes me mulish. I’m not getting one until they go out of fashion. So there!

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  • Mia
    Hah, you are absolutely right! I've seen loads of them around without actually looking at them. When I think of it. And I agree, they *can* be nice..like the one on the upper pic, not bad at all! If it had looked a bit more like a birch tree I might have been interested =) But on the whole, nah, no burning feelings inside. The overexposure may have killed it for now, unless...hm, maybe one could twist it with an unexpected very pointed lampshade or so?
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