Can't have a ceiling light-but want brightness

[Housewoes23]

I've bought a house and there's no potential for a ceiling light in my bedroom. It is quite a dark room anyway, not got a very large window-It's a lovely large room though.

Extremely high ceilings for a relatively small property-no means of installing a ceiling light.

There is a wall light, but it isn't very bright and is very old fashioned, so the room is quite dim at the moment and only going to get more so in winter.

Is there such a thing as a large (long?), bright wall light that will serve as good or almost as good as a ceiling light?

Sorry I'm confused why can't you have a ceiling light?

We have a Mother and Child floor lamp and it gives amazing light. Both have dimmers and the small one is flexible as well. Have a look online.

We got a floor lamp for my daughter and it gives quite a lot of light because the shade is glass. It’s this one
www.homebase.co.uk/eglo-troy-3-floor-lamp-satin-nickel_p565587

I have a ceiling light in the bedroom but never turn it on; I prefer low light in bedrooms (I prefer it everywhere, really, have all my lights on dimmers) and have a couple of nice lamps in the bedroom which provide good light. Good quality LED bulbs make a huge difference.

But also I’d agree that we never use the main light. Have you got lamps?

eatthehamtina it would require access to the loft-and the loft as a 'room' is about 2 feet high with a tonne of thick, turgid insulation. It is just not possible for anyone to get/work up there!

Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

I do have lamps, a large one on my dressing table and a standard lamp. But I'd prefer to just turn a light on and be able to see! At night, even with all lamps on, It's dimmed, low light and during the day even, if I were to check myself in my mirror I wouldn't be able to clearly see if my outfit was creased or my make up looked wrong etc-just too dim. I don't like a lot of clutter so I don't want other lamps dotted about everwhere.

comtessedespaire my partner is like that. I wish I were and this wouldn't be an issue then-I like light.

A spark should have the equipment to pull cable through a 2 ft space.

I had one look yesterday and he told me it was impossible!

We have bedside lamps sort of like this (but we made them ourselves so they're much prettier). It would be easy to do with bright bulbs, shades if you want and multiple cords/bulbs into a single plug socket. We used a nice wooden coat hook to loop them over.

If you got a long enough cord (and pretty), you could run it up the wall and across the ceiling to turn a plug in lamp into a ceiling lamp. They're not heavy, so even something like no-nails should hold the hook.

Here's an example, although their light does go into a traditional wall light plug rather than a plug socket.
workabouthouse.com/blog/2014/5/11/how-to-swag-a-pendant-light

Get a couple of uplighters.

(if your ceiling is dirty and covered in spiders webs you may want to clean and paint it)

they used to have Halogen lamps, which get very hot and use a lot of electricity, but you can get them with LED lamps now which are cheap to run. You need more lighting power than with a ceiling pendant, as the light is indirect, so, depending on your room size, I'd get two or three. It is difficult to get them with dimmers so just turn off one or more for subdued lighting. Try to avoid lamps in funny shapes and sizes as they may be expensive or difficult to buy when you need replacements. SES, ES, BC and SBC are very easy to find. My opinion is that the market for lamps that need transformers will collapse.

Possibly a dumb question, but why not just replace the dim wall light with a decent wall light? A new fitting and bulb should make it much brighter. You could even put a ceiling multi-spotlight set on the wall so that you can angle different spots to cover the whole room and have something bright for make-up?

Today 12:40 Housewoes23

I had one look yesterday and he told me it was impossible!

If he told you that , you Need to get a better electrician 👍

What colour is the loft insulation?

I find the fibres and dust from yellow fibreglass very irritant. Modern mineral wool with Ecose is not a problem.

A friend says he knew someone who was taken very ill after working in loft dust. I won't do it now.

Pigletjohn yellowish? I'm pretty tiny and I couldnt fit up there at all
stodgy not stupid at all but I've no idea what to look for! Those are amazing though and would really fit in with my room i think
Thanks for the suggestions all!

sorry, daft suggestion coming up, but what about a sunlight tunnel? It will need installing, but no wires to fit etc.

yellowish is old fibreglass, irritant to skin and breathing.

Some people aren't troubled by it, I am. It can take me a couple of days to get over it, and even if you wear mask and overalls, the fibres fall off when you are getting changed.

perhaps your electrician is like me.

I am also somewhat portly and not fond of crawling in narrow spaces.

I agree you need a better electrician. If cabling can't be done in the loft surely it can be surface mounted on the ceiling? You'll have visible cable or trunking but needs must.

That can’t be right, even if they put the cable along the ceiling you can have a ceiling light. My kitchen had to be done like this, because they couldn’t find the junction box (old listed property, and trust me they tried). So they pulled it up and extended it from the walls and tacked it along the ceiling beams.

No reputable spark would say you can’t. I’d get another electrician.