I made you a collage! Three, in fact. But before we get to the actual lamps, I want to sing the praises of ROUND things, because they have magical interiors-dilemma solving properties.
Whatever the room, most items in it - tables, chairs, beds, sofas - are made up of straight lines. So is the room itself. So are rugs, pictures, fireplaces, mantelpieces, window frames, paintings, shelves, mirrors, lampshades, fridges, televisions. So are books, storage units, cupboards, side and coffee tables, etc etc. And so are many of the smaller decorative items we strew around.
None of this is a problem, unless you look around the room and think, ‘hm, everything in this room is nice, I wonder why it never feels cosy.’
You may never think that, of course. If you want something that feels quite formal and smart, there’s no issue. But if the object of the exercise is to make a space feel welcoming and cosy - and I’m not saying autumn, but I’m also not not saying autumn - then all those straight lines are not helpful. You are a soft human, surrounded by hard angles. It’s not relaxing. That’s why you don’t feel cosy. You need round things.
The round things can be anything - a round rather than a rectangular mirror, a curvy vase rather than a long thin sharp-edged one, an occasional table that is circular, a non-spiky plant, a bowl of fruit on a worktop. Basically, round shapes feel friendly, and hard lines do not.
(Cosiness also depends on other factors, like colour and texture - metal and glass feel less cosy than wood; velvet or corduroy on a sofa feel cosier than stiffer fabric. But it’s a lot easier to find some emergency round things than to reupholster sofas or repaint the bedroom).
Lighting also has a huge amount to do with cosiness. Mushroom lamps = roundness AND non-aggressive, atmospheric lighting. I love them, not just for their extreme round friendliness - they make you, or at least me, feel well-disposed towards the day - but also because they work in any kind of interior, from minimal to maximal and from super modern to ye olde cottage. They are particularly helpful in older houses, where adding a very faintly jarring, modern element (or three) to a room is often exactly what’s required to make it feel alive rather than just pretty - the equivalent of wearing a biker boot with a floaty dress.
Here come the lamps (I just like them, no affiliate links, as per). They are not to scale, and also they are useless as lamps to do anything by - their job is to provide ROUNDNESS and warm little puddles of cosifying light.
Artemide Nessino table lamp in orange (but Google - prices vary wildly). Designed by Giancarlo Mattioli in 1967, so a classic. Also comes in red or white. We had one in the sitting room when I was little - I loved the friendly glow it gave then, and I still love it now it’s ubiquitous. The internet is awash with cheap and perfect copies. Literally no one would ever know.