Reading Lamp

[lannarose]

Anyone knows where I can buy a good reading lamp? I went to Central and wasn't impressed with their selection.

[LawrenceChee]

Try home pro at hang dong big C ...they have quite a selection

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[nicksal37]

Are you serious? There are many shops in CM that sell reading lights.What colour are you looking for? What design are you looking for? This must be the most dumbest post ever or a troll.

[Beetlejuice]

Something like God, they`re everywhere.

Look in all the supermarkets, local Thai markets, small electrical shops, Home Pro, Robinsons, Global House and if you`re still not sure, I`ll sell you mine for 3000 baht and I`m willing to gift wrap it and deliver.

[TheFishman1]

Try home pro,Big C,Tesco most shop you can find them in.on this forum some people will blast you for asking a question.I see you posted 45 so I just want to say Welcome to the forum

[FolkGuitar]

I'll assume that the term "reading lamp" has a specific design form in your mind, rather than just a switch with a light bulb attached.

Can you be more specific about what it is that you're looking for?

Is it a floor lamp that extends up over the back corner of your chair? A desk lamp with a flexible gooseneck?

Incandescent or florescent? Long bulb or round?

There are just so many different lamps available these days, some excellent lighting shops around town, and plenty of folks who can direct you to what you are looking for... but first they need to know just what that is. To ask for just a 'reading lamp' is like asking where can I get beer?

[masuk]

I was sold a used lamp on arrival here, and it's been so good. It's a floor standing light with a dome pointing to the ceiling for general diffused light, and a goose neck which goes behind one's chair or bed.

Worth looking for but sorry, don't know where it came from, but certainly in Chiang Mai.

[expatmakmak]

I was sold a used lamp on arrival here, and it's been so good. It's a floor standing light with a dome pointing to the ceiling for general diffused light, and a goose neck which goes behind one's chair or bed.

Worth looking for but sorry, don't know where it came from, but certainly in Chiang Mai.

Good for you, but op's not going to be reading many books on the bloody celling is he! 5555

[mania]

Probably not the cheapest place but they do not lack choices.

http://www.indexlivi...il-en.php?id=14

If you click on lighting & decorate they have a sampling of

what they stock. Even a reading lamp section.

[lannarose]

Thanks, mania, just what I was looking for.

[NancyL]

I can understand the OP's frustration. When we first arrived we spent a long time looking for a "proper" lamp I could use for doing needlework. Something that would handle an incandescent bulb of higher wattage -- not some low-light florescent bulb. I think we finally found one at an electric shop on the south side of the old city, just inside the moat.

The bulb really puts out heat, so now the lamp doubles as a "heat lamp" for the cat!

[hellodolly]

Are you serious? There are many shops in CM that sell reading lights.What colour are you looking for? What design are you looking for? This must be the most dumbest post ever or a troll.

Were you referring to yourself when you said

"This must be the most dumbest post ever or a troll."

After all it is your post.

[eyecatcher]

Are you serious? There are many shops in CM that sell reading lights.What colour are you looking for? What design are you looking for? This must be the most dumbest post ever or a troll.

oooh you bitch

[NancyL]

None of those so-called reading lamps on the Index site handle anything bigger than a 40W bulb. That's not a reading light -- that's a side lamp for watching TV or using the computer!

[eyecatcher]

I can understand the OP's frustration. When we first arrived we spent a long time looking for a "proper" lamp I could use for doing needlework. Something that would handle an incandescent bulb of higher wattage -- not some low-light florescent bulb. I think we finally found one at an electric shop on the south side of the old city, just inside the moat.

The bulb really puts out heat, so now the lamp doubles as a "heat lamp" for the cat!

Come on Nancy, why are you always so nice; just tell him a blind man could find a reading lamp in Chiang Mai....and he would never have to read braille in the dark again

[mania]

None of those so-called reading lamps on the Index site handle anything bigger than a 40W bulb. That's not a reading light -- that's a side lamp for watching TV or using the computer!

I agree that these days what they call reading lamps are really desk lamps.

For a reading as in reading while seated on a sofa lamps I think most need a

floor or table lamp.

Although I have used higher than rated wattages on lamps most of my life with no ill effect.

But these were incandescent bulbs & in lamps that did not have flammable shades.

[NancyL]

None of those so-called reading lamps on the Index site handle anything bigger than a 40W bulb. That's not a reading light -- that's a side lamp for watching TV or using the computer!

I agree that these days what they call reading lamps are really desk lamps.

For a reading as in reading while seated on a sofa lamps I think most need a

floor or table lamp.

Although I have used higher than rated wattages on lamps most of my life with no ill effect.

But these were incandescent bulbs & in lamps that did not have flammable shades.

And you probably weren't trying to "push" the lamp in Thailand!

[mania]

And you probably weren't trying to "push" the lamp in Thailand!

Yes that is true. This was all in our previous home country

Funny after I read your comment I went to look at a table lamp I recently

put a 60w bulb in. But the writing on the socket is gone.

[masuk]

If you're after 75 watts of light or more, but 12 or 15 watts of power and heat, why not use a 'warm white' energy efficient lamp?

As for the comment about reading from the ceiling, there is a good deal of diffused light from this, and good for using the computer, watching TV.