RANARP from Ikea. Photo.©nini.tjader.2015
I recently bought this lamp from Ikea, RANARP (above). The intention was to put it in the bedroom over the bench where I have flowers so they could get some more light this dark season. Tested it there but it was no good as I always got the light into my eyes as soon as I entered the bedroom. Because of how you attach it, it ended up here in the end, in the livingroom, replacing a book-case lamp I moved to a bookcase where I had to replace one lamp that had a sudden and final death of the whole lamp, not just the bulb.
RANARP from Ikea. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015
I like the form and look of this lamp (Ikea has several other models of it), but… Why does it have to have such a huge label inside it? As it is a clamp spot-light, usually put a bit higher up on a shelf or similar, you see the label inside it when looking up. And why does it have to have such a complicated construction for fastening the lamp to the shelf-edge? I have reasonably strong hands (despite my age) but almost couldn’t get it in place as it was hard work to get it to open up enough to place it where I wanted it. Then it also has a thing you screw up through the fastening to make it sit securely there.
Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015
This (above and below) is the spot-light it replaced. Also an Ikea-lamp, no longer sold, much smaller. You screw it into the shelf itself, no clamping. I have several of those, so when one broke, I couldn’t just put a new of another model in its place. On these bookcases, there are three in a row.
Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015
Photo.©nini.tjader.2015
Here above the wardrobes in the bedroom, also three in a row (as you can see I am not finished painting the walls in the bedroom yet, one corner and one wall to go). High up, angled to be able to see what is in the wardrobes. And one more over the other two wardrobes in the bedroom (yes, I have five wardrobes there…).
Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015
If another one of those spot-lights brake, I will have to find a replacement. And I do not want one of Ikeas cheapest, which i still have one of in the living room and long have looked for a replacement for.
Photo: ©nini.tjader.2015
I am not prepared to pay some SEK2000 or so for a designer lamp though… not that I don’t want one, but I cannot afford it.
Might move the RANARP clamp spotlight to this location and find something else to put above the stereo.
My favorite clamp spot-light is the Artemide Tolomeo lamp. It costs around USD 185 though, which is way to much for me. But I just love it. Small, unobtrusive, good quality, nice-looking… Comes in various colors too.
Artemide Tolomeo clamp spot-light. Image from the internet.
