FlyerinHI, my favorite style is rustic, heavy solid wood furniture. I also like Art Deco and the supermodern W hotel style, though I lack the talent to make it work.
My two houses are both about 105 years old and made of redwood, so the rustic look makes more sense for me.
I agree with your friend that the lamp you linked to is ugly. I hate to say this after seeing you spent a couple hundred on them, but I figure you wouldn’t ask if you didn’t want the truth.
Both the style and gold color strongly remind me of the rural Holiday Inns/motel 6s from family vacations in the 1990’s. I mean really dated and common looking. I hate it as much as it is possible to hate a sconce.
In general, I think the best look for a bedroom is no wall light at all, and instead a dimmer switch and overhead light that allows some late night mood lighting.
I think the sleek simple style look a lot better too. The majority of the ones on lampsplus I like much better, but this is my favorite for near a bed after a quick browse:
1. polished copper (great look but high maintenance to keep it looking nice)
2. brushed light silver metals
3. brushed dark silver metals
4. polished chrome
5. black metal
6. gold plate
I paid a fair amount of money to restore to a bright polish the exposed copper pipes in my basement ceiling, and then used Martha Stewart metallic copper paint on the iron gas pipes. I am very happy with the result. The pipes have since lost part of the polish but still look great.
