5 of the best floor lamps for your nursery in 2024
Getting the night light right means you can all have a good night!
Darkness is a great sleep cue for little ones, but you don’t need to be fumbling around in the dark in the early years. Everyone knows stealth is the only mode parents need at night time!
Getting the light right in your baby’s nursery is so important. Without bright overhead light overstimulating them, your little one is much more likely to give in to those wonderful sleep hormones that will see them off to the land of nod.
A floor lamp positioned in just the right spot will give the grown ups enough light to move around quietly and may help make life a little easier in the middle of the night.
2024’s top nursery floor lamps
- Sarantino Modern Arc Floor Lamp in Brass Finish, $107, Woolworths (here’s why)
- Oslo Natural & White Floor Light, $299.99, Adairs – 30% off for Linen Lovers (here’s why)
- OUTON LED Dimmable Floor Lamp with Shelf, $169.87, Amazon AU (here’s why)
The best floor lamps for your nursery 2024
1. Sarantino Modern Arc Floor Lamp in Brass Finish
from $107 at Woolworths
Best for modern nurseries
Perfectly unobtrusive, this modern floor lamp has a simple design that will fit in with most types of decor. The brass finish pairs with the warm tone of the hanging drum shade to make you feel warm and cosy for those feeding and bedtime snuggles.
At 157cm high, this lamp can sit above rockers, sofas or nursery cribs. Weighing only 5kg (mostly in the base), it is easy to move around to where light is needed most. The weighted base prevents tipping, and the convenient foot switch allows you to easily tap the lamp on or off when your arms are full.
Key features:
- Unique 90-degree lamp pole
- Brass finish
- White hanging drum shade
- Weighted base
- Lightweight yet sturdy
- Convenient foot switch
- Perfect for home and office spaces
- Assembly required
- Bulbs not included
- Overall Size: 36 x 36 x 157.5cm
- Base Size: 28 x 3cm
Available at:
- $107 from Woolworths
- $109 from Mitre 10
- $113 from Amazon AU
- $113 from Catch
2. Oslo Natural & White Floor Light
from $209.99 at Adairs (30% off for Linen Lovers)
Best for modern, Scandi nurseries
This floor lamp features a stunning wooden base that hangs the shade at an angle. In natural colours that suit a modern decor, this lamp will effortlessly blend in with your nursery while providing the perfect soft light for all of the baby cuddles and changes ahead.
Key features:
- Timber & Linen
- 97cm (L) x 40 (W) x 172cm (H)
- Bulb Type: B22. Max 60W (Not Included)
- Comes within two boxes, x1 base and x1 shade.
Available at:
- $209.99 from Adairs (30% off for Linen Lovers)
3. OUTON LED Dimmable Floor Lamp with Shelf
from $169.87 at Amazon AU
Best for busy, practical parents
Change of colour mood? Too easy! This clever lamp not only comes with a handy remote control for when you are stuck under bub, you can also choose four light options – warm, warm white, cool white and daylight white. The shelf is always going to be handy too – we parents are always looking to stash ‘baby stuff’ wherever we can.
Key features:
- Wooden shelf
- Dimmable
- 4 colour temperature adjustable
- Floor lamp wooden trunk
- Floor lamp with remote control
- Scandinavian style
- Contains four-colour temperature bulb
Available at:
- $169.87 from Amazon AU
4. COSH Floor Lamp
from $134.25 (usually $179) at Freedom
Best for modern, minimalist nurseries
Pairing well with minimalist and elegant interiors, the Cosh Floor lamp is crafted in white metal, giving off warm lighting for a cosy and comfortable ambience for you and bub.
Key features:
- Overall height: 147cm
- Shade dimension: 34.534.520cm
- Shade material: Metal
- Base dimension: 28280.6cm
- Base material: Metal
- Cord length: 180cm
- Max watt: 40
- Bulb included: No
- Colour: White
Available at:
- $134.25 (usually $179) from Freedom
4. Barbie Camper playset
$79 (usually $154.99) at Amazon
Hit the road to adventure with the Barbie Dream Camper featuring an epic slide, 7 play areas and everything imaginations need to play out the ultimate camping trip. The camper van is the perfect addition to playtime rolling beside the Barbie Dreamhouse.
Key features:
- Rolling wheels and a two-seater cab inspire fun travel play
- Contains a kitchen, dining area, sleeping area, bathroom, pool, slide, fire pit and more
- Ladder for Barbie to slide into the pool
- Over 60 accessories including a sheet of bumper stickers for fun customisation, two pet puppies, furniture, kitchen tools, cosy blankets and more
6 practical tips for pretty and practical baby bedroom
Keep it dark
Bright nurseries that are all white and full of natural light look amazing. They make for stunning images on design blogs and Instagram, and give mums-to-be tonnes of inspiration for setting up their baby’s room.
Just make sure your nursery isn’t too bright, otherwise your baby won’t be able to sleep. And sleep is what they need a lot of in the first year!
Up until 12 months of age babies need at least two day sleeps of an hour or two each, so a light-filled, bright nursery just isn’t a great idea if you want your baby to sleep.
Ensure you have some curtains, block-out blinds, plantation shutters or darkened blinds.
Buy a comfortable chair
A nursery chair can not only be a stylish design feature of your room, but is also a practical necessity.
You will spend a lot of time in a chair, so make sure you get a comfortable one.
Ensure you can sit upright in it for feeding, it’s big enough to make you feel relaxed, you can add cushions for extra comfort, and it will grow with your child.
When babies need 10 or more feeds in those early days, trust me, you’ll be happy you bought a comfortable chair.
When your baby grows into a toddler, then a child, it can become a reading chair for the many, many stories you’ll read them!
Buy a good night light
A light that is bright enough for you to read with, like the lights listed above, is perfect for a nursery. You will be surprised at how small the instructions are on the side of a medicine bottle, especially when your tired eyes are trying to read the correct dosage at 3am!
Also, ensure it is dim enough to be a night light that you can leave on to help get your baby to sleep.
If you choose your light wisely it will last into their childhood as a storytime, then bedside light.
Storage
Babies are so tiny when they first come home from hospital, but they grow quickly and accumulate a LOT of stuff.
Not only clothing; but wraps, blankets, sleeping bags, nappies, rugs, toys, books, puzzles, keepsakes, etc. – so decent storage, and lots of it, is a necessity.
DRAWERS: Buy a decent-sized chest of drawers for your baby’s clothes – they grow so quickly that pretty soon you’ll need lots of space for singlets, jumpsuits, onesies, leggings, tops, hoodies and socks… plus the other bazillion items of clothing they have.
Baby clothes are teensie, and tricky to put on coathangers (not to mention fiddly and annoying) so drawers are much easier for storing their clothes.
SHELVING: Shelves are also a great idea for all the little titbits babies have, such as books, games, puzzles, jewellery boxes and keepsake boxes, photo frames, and all the stuffed toys you’ll no doubt receive.
Invest in a table for next to your chair
A little table, or a bedside table with a drawer is also a good idea to put next to your nursery chair.
When feeding you’ll need to put a bottle of water, snacks, mobile phone and anything else that needs to be within reach, especially when you may spend up to an hour feeding.
And in the early days when you’re establishing breastfeeding, you don’t want to stop feeding to get up to get something. It’s annoying and disrupts the baby too. Have it all within easy reach.
Make it comfy
And finally, make it a space that YOU feel comfortable in. After all, you are the one who’s going to spend more time in it than anyone else (apart from baby of course).
