The best new lighting for winter homes: revamped lava lamps, liquid lights and easy-fit shades for every budget

This weekend is the wake-up call for your home lighting revamp, after the clocks have gone back and the dark evenings begin. But you don’t need major renovations.

For an uplifting mood change, plug in and switch on an eye-catching table or floor lamp, or install fresh wall lights with extra-long flexes.

Easy-fit lighting transforms a room, creating soft shadows, light “pools” and accents. And if you rent, you can take it all with you when you move.

A Festival of Light fills the windows at Heal’s with arty statements — and there’s 20 per cent off Heal’s own brand.

Or “live chat” online with experts who can send photos/videos direct from store (until Nov 3 at 196 Tottenham Court Road, W1; heals.com; 0333 212 1915).

In the huge Habitat flagship, lighting is unashamedly decorative — with glass as a major material.

“We’re moving away from that industrial look,” says Clare Griffin, lighting buyer.

Also selling fast are rattan and bamboo, “for a slightly tropical organic vibe”. Easy-fit shades are a boon for renters.

Colour is coming back, in particular yellow and red. Some fittings sit flush, for low ceilings in new-build homes.

Plug-in wall lights are easy, too. (196-199 Tottenham Court Road, W1; Westfield, W12; and at 255 Finchley Road, NW3; habitat.co.uk).

This Islington shop has an understated contemporary style that doesn’t date. Get 15 per cent off lighting until Nov 3 (274-275 Upper St, N1; twentytwentyone.com; 020 7288 1996).

Nearby is a showroom for Hertford glass artists Rothschild & Bickers, with superb mouth-blown lighting.

Their new Liquid Lights have the hot glass rolled over pebbles to make a gently undulating surface. Priced £410 and £635, in 16 colours (62 Cross Street, N1; 020 7359 5817; rothschildbickers.com).

Winner of the 2019 London Design Medal, Tom Dixon flaunts his ritzy pendants, glam and super-glossy, in an atmospheric brick-vaulted showroom fringing the canal in King’s Cross. His fittings now have hi-tech built-in LEDs.

Show this article and quote code ES20 for a 20 per cent discount until November 6; also applies online (4-10 Bagley Walk Arches, Coal Drops Yard, N1C; tomdixon.net).

Covent Garden design store Aram has 15 per cent off lighting until November 16. Built-in strips of LEDs make lights adventurous and sculptural, reports director Daniel Aram.

Rechargeable table and floor lamps are also popular (110 Drury Lane, WC2; aram.co.uk).

Also explore SCP in Shoreditch, whose own brand includes a translucent bone china pendant by Reiko Kaneko, designed and made in Stoke, for £158.

Get up to 70 per cent off “clearance” lighting online (135-139 Curtain Road, EC2; 020 7739 1869; scp.co.uk).

“Table lamps add drama, elegance and a warm glow,” says Rohan Blacker of specialist store Pooky Lighting. Interior designers love his mix-and-match bases and shades.

Spend £50 and get a free LED bulb. And don’t stint on shades.

The width of a shade should roughly equal the height of the lamp base (25 Chelsea Wharf, 15 Lots Road, SW10; 020 7351 3003; pooky.com).

A big room with dozens of decorative lamps has just been revamped at OKA. A new touch screen allows endless experiments.

“Lighting should be the star of every space,” says co-founder and creative director Sue Jones (155-167 Fulham Road, SW3; oka.com).

On a budget? Improve your room or shared flat with good-looking lamps and shades from thelightingsuperstore.co.uk.

Or try The Pod, a new candle-powered version of the iconic Lava Lamp, in two sizes, £44 and £48, at Mathmos (mathmos.com).

There's an installation service and a huge lighting department at John Lewis.

Mid-century styling and multi-light designs are popular now, and crystal is still big for glamour. Integrated LED strips make lighting minimal and linear (300 Oxford Street, W1; 020 7629 7711; johnlewis.com).