IKEA Evedal Floor Lamp
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Pretty good lamp purchase! – The lamp is great and I like the design the light is not too bright and just right.
Beautiful Looking Evedal Series. Electrical Issues! – The IKEA Evedal series look ABSOLUTELY superb. IKEA frequently knock it out of the park design wise and the Evedal series are amongst their finest. The marketing blurb for these lamps said something along the lines of, “timeless Scandinavian mid-century pieces that can be passed down through the generations”. If they weren’t plagued with electrical gremlins!
For IKEA, the price was right up there: we were gifted two of the table lamps from the range for $249.00 each Christmas before last. 15 or so months in and both of them have started having issues. Both lamps flicker intermittently, go dark and then come back on or just won’t turn on until you pump the switch several times. Initially we thought it was the LED globes and we’d just replace them. But. You can’t seem to get the old globe out and IKEA don’t seem to sell a replacement. They also seem to have discontinued this specific lamp from the Evedal range.
Maybe I’m not looking hard enough but I can’t see anything on the IKEA site that references a warranty on lamps. We also (as they were a gift) don’t have a receipt. I called IKEA and got nowhere. Extremely annoyed. They look amazing. Superb in fact. But now we don’t turn them on unless immediately nearby. Hoping we can find some kind of light repairer (is there such a thing?) to take a look. Very disappointed with the product and can’t help wondering if others are having similar issues as, because the rest of the Evedal range is still available, it appears that IKEA have quietly discontinued their problem child.
IKEA Evedal floor lamp is a gorgeous designer item – I love mid-century, Scandinavian, minimalist designs. Just bought and set up this Evedal floor lamp. It is not your average or typical IKEA light. This floor lamp sells for AUD249, a hundred dollars more expensive than the next most expensive lamp in IKEA. It is a real designer item and everything about it screams design and style. Lamp shade is made of two layers of glass or two glass domes - mouth-blown smoke colour outer dome and a separate white opaque dome underneath with champagne / brass plate on top and bottom and a matching pull switch on a black string. The column / tube is solid oak and the base is black marble. Yep, that's right black marble, around 20kg marble. making the unit very heavy and therefore stable and I absolutely love that. The combination of materials - glass, wood, brass, shape of the domes, switching mechanism, are all wonderful. Even the packaging is fantastic, with Evedal etched on the giant egg carton inside that protects the domes.
Putting together is dead easy and I guess because it is actually a modern design, it is well suited for LED light bulbs. I have a TP-Link LB130 Smart Wi-Fi Multicolour LED Bulb (https://www.tp-link.com/au/home-networking/smart-bulb/lb130/) inside. It is very tall and not many enclosed lamps or designer lamps can accomodate it. Not a problem for this Evedal floor lamp, and won't be a problem for the table lamp variant because it has the same glass dome. The enclosure is big and because of the white opaque dome inside, light is evenly spread and you won't be able to discern where the glowing top area is, like you would with normal lamp shades. Instead, it is just totally even! Love it. With this marriage between the Evedal lamp and the TP Link LB130 LED bulb now I have a light that I can change brightness and set it to any colour I want - yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, violet, you name it or by kelvin temperature. And I do this via Google Home Mini using voice control. Perfect!
Here is my review of the TP-Link LB130 Smart WiFi Multicolour Bulb: https://www.productreview.com.au/reviews/ead7a53c-f015-4b79-9f58-3c2b3997b241
If anything, I wonder how this lamp would look like with a black / walnut / mahogany / ebony timber column or a thinner powder coated black metal tube. I wonder if that would add a degree of sophistication and elegance. Anyway, the oak colour is just fine because it matches well with our Blackbutt timber floor. The cord could have come through the marble base rather than 1.5" above the marble base coming out of the side of the column. But the brass base and cable collar are great touches and screams complete product in every way. The base does have some kind of velvet feel to it but I added some surface protectors to keep it from possibly scratching the floor and made it easier to slide on the floor if I need to move it. After all, I just set it up. I might tinker with positioning.
I wonder if I could resist the temptation and get the table lamp as well. Let's see.
The only thing I am not happy with this purchase is the $20 IKEA charges for click-n-collect, even when I am collecting it from an IKEA store. Shipping this item door to door costs $49. Charging 40% of that for online purchase and only waiving it if the order is over $500. That's excessive in this day and age, especially when shops such as OfficeWorks offers free delivery for orders over $55. IKEA has got to move with time and do better in this area. This Evedal lamp was out-of-stock for several weeks and just became available, hence I bought it online as soon as I noticed it, as recommended by staff at the store. Shame he didn't warn me about the $20 fee.
Purchased in at IKEA VIC, Springvale for $249.
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