Joanna Gaines Has Designed a Puzzle Lamp to Illuminate Game Nights, But I’m Using It On My Kitchen Counters
Bringing focused light to any spot in your home, this portable lamp is a must-have
Joanna Gaines’ highly anticipated holiday collection at Target just launched, and while everyone was busy fawning over its heritage-inspired Christmas decor, I spotted an unexpected everyday gem. Not a holiday decor idea, but a clever lighting idea. Enter: the Puzzle Light Lamp.
With a T-shaped shade and a cordless design, this lamp was designed to conveniently illuminate holiday game nights – hence its name. But in my mind, this lamp is so much more versatile, and it's certainly not something I'd tuck away in the attic at the end of the holiday season.
It’s the ideal kitchen lighting idea – a portable lamp that's ideal for countertops thanks to its elongated design and the lack of wires. It's convenient, practical, and beyond helpful for prepping as well as softening my space.
This portable lamp is a convenient feature for any room in the home. Its wide T-shape spreads light over a large area, and its shade can angle upwards or down. Its base features a charging port and it's sold with a cable for fast recharging. Practicality aside, this lamp is a chic choice with its charmingly vintage-inspired design.
Like a cross between a vintage banker's lamp and a museum artwork light, the Puzzle Lamp is an ideal spotlight for illuminating a singular, focused zone in your home. In the kitchen, I imagine it as a helpful task lamp – shedding light on anything from a meal prep space to the words on a cookbook. Even in dark under-cabinet corners, this lamp can brighten up the scene with ease.
Its practicality could benefit lots of other areas in the home. In a home office or even a craft room, it'll provide focused light to whatever you're working on. It can benefit a bar cart, too, shining light on mixed drinks and snacks. Even on a hallway credenza, this light can become a main feature of a stylish vignette – standing behind picture frames to illuminate your favorite memories.
Though designed to light up holiday game nights, this stylish portable lamp can provide focused lighting anywhere around the home.
Practicality aside, the Puzzle Lamp is such a chic lighting choice for your home – which makes sense, considering that it was designed by Joanna Gaines. Its brass materiality and grooved base give it a charmingly vintage-inspired look, as if it were a one-of-a-kind antique find. Wherever you place it, it'll warm up the space with character and heritage charm.
Like many of the pieces in Joanna Gaines x Target collections, I have a feeling this lamp won't be in stock for very long. So if you're eager for a new task light for your home, take my word for it – Joanna Gaines' Puzzle Lamp is the one to buy.
How I'd Style The Puzzle Lamp
Once it arrives on my doorstep, Joanna Gaines' Puzzle Lamp is immediately headed for my kitchen countertop. Here's how I'd style it in the space.
The Puzzle Lamp is the perfect light source for illuminating a cookbook – and what better cookbook to light up than one written by Joanna Gaines herself? This is the third edition of the Magnolia Table series, and it's filled with recipes that are perfect for holiday hosting.
Although you could lay your cookbook flat on the countertop, I find it much easier to read when propped up. Just like the Puzzle Lamp, this cookbook holder is also from Joanna Gaines' Target line. It's such a chic and heritage-inspired choice for your kitchen.
Complete your heritage-inspired kitchen setup with some cookware that fits the bill. Molly Yeh's cookware line at Anthropologie should do the trick. With pieces as characterful as this decorative pie dish, cooking will feel less like a chore and more like an enjoyable activity.
Shop More Portable Lamps
As a portable lamp enthusiast, I'm convinced that every home should have at least one of these convenient light features. Shop a few more that are equally as chic as Joanna Gaines' Puzzle Lamp.
This portable lamp is one of my personal favorites because of its woven design. Aside from its three-leveled light output, it can also bring textural appeal to a room with its rattan body.
Finished in one of my favorite fall color trends, this portable lamp can do so much more for the home than bring light to dark corners. It's a stylish design detail that can elevate a quiet countertop or table with modern flair. Give it 40 minutes to charge, and this lamp will provide up to 10 hours of light.
With a handle on its back, this lamp takes 'portable' to the next level. It comes highly rated on IKEA's site, with reviewers remarking on its ideal size, its ambient light output, and its convenient recharging capabilities.
The Puzzle Lamp from Joanna Gaines' holiday collection at Target isn't the only light source that I'm excited to use in my home this fall and winter. I've got my eyes on IKEA's KNÖLTÅNG Led Table Light, too – an old-world inspired light idea that brings glowing charm to holiday tablescapes.
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