This lamp is a disappointment to me. It won’t sit flat on carpet (could be the floor, I know) and the Swing arm is very stiff. To move the arm, one has to stand up and fuss with it. In order to keep the seam of the lampshade toward the wall, I need to readjust it often. Moat of all, though, it is just too too tall. I would like something that should swing over the couch easily and adjust easily, but its not.. Too bad. Sigh. On the up side, the shade is really white, not yellow, so the light color is not changed by the humans who own the lamp.  And the switch is nice.