Decor Therapy Sennen Traditional Swing-Arm Floor Lamp, Black

I am giving this 5 stars for what it is. It is an inexpensive nice looking floor lamp. It is well enough made and sturdy enough. It is all I expect when purchasing an inexpensive floor lamp. What I was looking for was an inexpensive lamp to replace a 15+ year old lamp that was in our basement. I wanted something that I could control light brightness and dimness. I wanted something that offered a soft light to give a warm homey comfortable feel to our basement as well doing yoga without bright lights glaring down on me. I did not want to spend a lot of money because the lamp it was replacing was new to our basement in the last 9 months or so. We had it originally in our living room. When we replaced the living room lamp, it was still in working order so instead of donating or throwing it away, we brought it down to the basement. What we learned was that we really liked having a floor lamp in the basement so we can control the brightness. Weight wise, this is a light lamp. When I picked up the box when it arrived, I was amazed how light it was and how small the package was. The weighted base is about 10.5 inches in diameter. Where we have it placed- out of the way of foot traffic and animals- it works. My concern if it was not out of the way or if we had little ones running around is that it bumped or grabbed it can easily fall over. To put it together, it was extremely easy. Twist a few poles. Uncollapse the lampshade. Put in a bulb. Plug it in. It is working. It took me longer to find a 3 way lightbulb in our house. I was skeptical about the lampshade. It arrives collapsed and flat. Stretching out the few rods/brackets that are assembled on the lampshade makes the lampshade a lampshade. I was concerned it would look really cheap fully assembled. It looks good. The lampshade is not the best made. In a couple spots, The hem at the bottom seems to buckle a tiny bit from the shade itself. Overall, the lampshade works very well with it and put all together, I don't see the imperfections in it. Again, I am reviewing this as an inexpensive floor lamp. The swivel arm works easily and well. There are no defects in the lamp itself. No scratches. No dings. It is a decent quality inexpensive floor lamp. It is exactly what I would expect for what I paid for. There are no frills to it. It is basic. It Offers a beautiful soft light and tucks easily into a corner.

The lamp is straight and symmetrical when assembled and looks quite good. Its coat of paint is even and overall presents well. The base could be a little larger and heavier, but it does its job. Could be slightly wobbly on a plush carpet. Personally, I was not terribly impressed with the shade and replaced it, but it too is acceptable and better than others I have seen with comparable lamps. The socket is, as others have pointed out, only rated to 100, not 150, watts. An LED 50/100/150 three-way replacement bulb generally maxes out at 19 or so watts, so this shouldn't be an issue if one needs plenty of lumens.

This review is for the bronze swing arm floor lamp. My current swing arm floor lamp died. I did not want to spend a lot of money to replace it because I expect to move within the next year or 2 and my lamps always take a hit when I move. I settled on this one and got a good price buying it from the warehouse in "Like New" condition. Someone had barely opened the box and returned it, probably because they saw that the shade arrives flat. Up till now I have refused to buy “erect it yourself” lampshades, but I had the shade from my dead lamp, in fact that’s what I’m using because I like the color better. The shade to this lamp is a champagne color and has a slight sheen. I was impressed how nice-looking it turned out when I flipped the 3 supports into place. Be careful, you can pinch your fingers doing it. My styrofoam was a mess but I've had to deal with that before. The real problem is the little beads of foam are very staticky and cling to everything and jump around. They cling to the vacuum hose where you can't suck them up...sigh. Comparing the post of this lamp to my lamp that died, it's a much narrower diameter. I did find it difficult to screw in and seat the post sections perfectly and when I tried to undo one because I thought it was askew, the post took the bare metal threaded part from the lower section. I couldn't get the post tightened to where it had no wobble (very slight), but luckily where I've placed it, it won't matter. I couldn't get the top pole section completely seated to where you couldn't see bare metal, but it's only a tiny bit showing and it doesn't actually show where I have this lamp placed. The swing arm portion, harp, etc., are not perfectly straight and true but that's been the case with every swing arm lamp I've ever purchased. Oh Well. Don't buy this if a slight misalignment will drive you crazy. I don't think this lamp is worth the List Price but it's fine at a lower price point.

Very nice looking and sturdy product once assembled. Heavy base makes it really stable. Directions for assembly are straight forward. . . only takes a quick glance to know exactly what to do. One caution is the make sure the screw-together pieces are aligned properly before screwing together because it would be easy to cross-thread them. Do make sure that all pieces are screwed together tightly to assure a sturdy assembly. Entire assembly took me about 5 minutes. It took me longer to get all the pieces free of the packaging. This attests to how well & securely the lamp was packaged.

I read a lot of the reviews about this lamp before I bought it. I agree with those who said that it looks more black than bronze, but black works good for me. I disagree with those who said that it tilts when the arm is extended. It’s been perfectly straight for me. I had looked at multiple stores and couldn’t find a lamp like this. The few I found that might have been OK were way too expensive so I was thrilled to see how reasonable the price for this lamp was. My only concern was how sparse the assembling instructions were. Granted, assembly is pretty rudimentary, but there might be some people who need to know that they need to pull the cord through as they assemble the parts.

I purchased this lamp and then later decided to purchase another to place at the end of my sofa. It is nice looking and better quality than most floor lamps. It was easy to assemble and the shade is good quality. The only issue I had with this lamp is the styrofoam packing that is used in this box: best to assemble outside because you will have little white styrofoam beads everywhere in your house. These beads are difficult to vacuum because they fly everywhere. A month later and I find these white beads everywhere. Because of the dryness it is as if these beads are like fleas and laughed because my cat even had them on his fur.

I put this up in less than 5 minutes. It is perfect in adding a little light when reading in the evening. I like the swing lamp and the option of 3 way lighting as needed. The lamp shade was easy to snap into place for a quality looking pole lamp I put in the corner of my living room. It is not too high but just the right height to compliment my wall decor.

The swing out arm is kind of weird with this lampshade. I haven't quite found a good place to put it but it is a nice quality lamp and shade.