IKEA 101.398.79 Floor Uplight Lamp - Add Ambience to Any Room!

Arthur SeniorArthur Senior: I wanted to buy a tower lamp for my room, but didn't want to spend huge amounts of money for a decorative model. I just needed something that worked and did the job, and that is what this lamp does. Assembly is super simple, you don't really even need the manual that comes with it. Place the bottom base on the floor, then screw on all the pipes. Then attach the bulb socket, then unscrew the threaded ring, place the shade on top, then screw the threaded ring back on. Place your bulb of choice into the socket, plug the cord in, and flip the switch on, simple.

The quality of the lamp is actually pretty good. It has a solid weight in the bottom base, aluminum pipes, and a good switch on the cord. The top shade is made of plastic however and is a bit flimsy. It works just fine, but just know that if somebody were running in the house and knocked this lamp over, more then likely the shade is going to break on it. I bought one of those remote controlled RGB multi-colored bulbs to run in this lamp. The bulbs can be remotely turned on/off, change brightness, color, they are really nice. I highly recommend them.

For the cheap cost of this lamp, and how well that it works, I do...

United States on Dec 14, 2019

Clothes Monkey: This lamp has good functionality but an ugly appearance. It has good features and bad features:

GOOD FEATURES:

(1) Easy and quick to assemble. You just screw the pieces together with no tools, and it takes 5 minutes.
(2) You can use an ordinary lightbulb. I Googled the E26 lightbulb and it just means a standard American lightbulb. (Wow, I never knew there was a special name for ordinary light bulbs.) Anyway, I put in a 13-watt full-spectrum spiral bulb and it is EXTREMELY bright. There is a sticker on the lamp that says 100 watt maximum to avoid fire, but that means 100 watts in the old incandescent bulbs, and it looked it up on the web and apparently a 23-watt CFL spiral bulb is the same as a 100 watt old-fashioned bulb, so the maximum for this lamp would be 23 watts to avoid fire. Anyway, a 13-watt spiral bulb is plenty.
(3) The base is heavily weighted with metal so it won't tip over easily. Some of these cheap lamps have a base that is weighted with a plaster-type substance, and if the plaster breaks, it's a problem.
(4) Cheap price (compared to other lamps you can get delivered from Amazon).
(5) I owned lamps very similar to this in the past and they...

United States on Dec 09, 2018

bookreader12: This is a great floor lamp. It was extremely easy to put this together. There were basically 4-5 main parts of this thing to assemble, and most everything was easy to screw together securely. The lamp works very well. The white bowl like shade offers plenty of light without being too bright, or hard to look at. It took maybe 10 minutes to get the whole thing put together. It looks great in my living room, and is a good size. It is narrow and can easily be put out of the way in the room. The switch is very simple, just a simple click of the button on the cord. The cord for the lamp runs along the outside of the unit, so it is a bit different looking than those that have the cord hidden inside of the stand part of the lamp. But I really like it, it was a great price, and looks classy, yet simple.

United States on Feb 26, 2016

J. F. Hindy: I bought this when my other cheap floor lamp starting going out. I didn't want anything expensive and this fit the bill.

Pros
1. Easy to put together. Four rods + the top + the base. Took literally a minute once everything was unpacked.
2. It's tall enough. It's shorter than the one it replaced but it's still tall enough to be a floor lamp.
3. It turns on and off, like a good lamp should.
4. The base is nice and heavy, the thing doesn't wobble much.
5. I like that the switch is on the cable about halfway down. It makes it easier to reach from the couch and it's a good, solid on-off switch. I never really liked the turn-switches like most of these lamps have.

Cons
1. None really. I knew the cable would be unsightly when I bought it so it seems unfair to tack a star for something I knew when I bought it. I actually don't mind it so much. It comes with two clips to clip the cord to the stem to keep it from just hanging around all willy nilly.

Overall, I'm pleased with it. This was the cheapest floor lamp available on Amazon and I wasn't really looking at home decoration. Just wanted something to replace the one that broke for right now and this...

United States on Apr 09, 2015