The Secret to a Cosy Winter Home? This Clever Addition to Your Lighting Scheme

As the nights draw in, any shortfalls in how your rooms are illuminated become ever more apparent. Whether there are dark spots, a lack of task lighting, or it’s just a scheme that doesn’t quite hit that cosy, warm ambience you want for your home into autumn and winter, remedying these deficiencies isn’t always easy.

After all, when it comes to adding new lighting, you’re limited by the existing set-up of your home. New lamps, whether for the floor or a table, are tethered to where they can reach sockets, while additional wall lights can require some pretty major electrical work — not exactly a quick fix for your lacking lighting scheme. However, design-forward lighting brand Pooky has come up with a solution that makes fixing problematically un-cosy lighting easy to do in style.

Pooky’s range of rechargeable lights offers a way to add to your room’s lighting scheme with no strings - or wires - attached. Here’s how they work, how to best put them to work, and a few of our favourite designs.

What is a rechargeable lamp?

Pooky’s rechargeable lighting designs are a collection of cordless table lamps and wall lights that don’t need to be wired in, or connected directly to a socket for you to use them in your home. That means you’re free to position lamps even away from a mains-powered connection or add wall lights into your scheme on a DIY basis.

They’re charged through a USB-C cable, and have 16 hours of run time on a full charge. When it comes to charging them, you either simply plug your lamp in itself, or the rechargeable genesis cells which magnetically connect to the base, depending on what type you’ve plumped for.

What sets Pooky’s designs apart from other portable lamps and wall sconces? Well, they match the quality of the brand’s existing designs, pairing luxury materials with bold and characterful design. This all means that while it might be an easy way to improve your lighting, it doesn’t feel like a quick fix — rather a clever investment in the design of your home.

Many of the lamps benefit from Pooky’s mix-and-match design, allowing you to pair different bases with any one of its range of shades, so you’ve got an option to suit any kind of home and any kind of decor.

How should I use one in my home?

Rechargeable lamps can be used in all kinds of applications, just as you would with wired-in lighting, but it does have a few advantages that can transform how you light your home. For table lamps, it offers up new placement opportunities that help bring a new dimension to your scheme, by allowing it to not just cling to the perimeter of your room where the sockets are. Imagine this Doorstep Rechargeable Table Lamp on the middle of your coffee table, using the Katherine Rechargeable Table Lamp to bring ambience to a dining table, or the bold Aururo Rechargeable Lamp to task light a floating desk.

For wall lights, it’s a way to not only improve overall lighting in a room but also complement shifting design choices throughout your home. Consider the Seurat Rechargeable Picture Light to highlight recently hung wall art, accenting it beautifully during the evenings. Or how about using a wall lamp as part of a dynamic gallery wall? We can imagine a design such as the Twinky Rechargeable Wall Light working perfectly.

We’re undoubtedly going to see rechargeable lights become a new mainstay in home design — once you have one, you’ll wonder how you ever managed without one before. And, while we think they might be the secret to the cosiest ever home at this time of year, once summer rolls around, you can take your portable lamp out in the garden, weather permitting, too.

You can find Pooky’s full range of rechargeable lights at Pooky.com.