My sewing room is also a spare bedroom and so I have the overhead light which is a ceiling fan and there are 3 light bulbs and a huge 8 foot long window (in San Diego we have sun most of the time). So my extra lighting is a floor lamp that I put next to the machine I am working on at the time. Actually I have 2 Ott lamps in the room. One is a table lamp and the other is a floor lamp. My sister gave me one of those small lamps that attach to the machine, which I used on one of my machines I gave away and haven't decided which machine to put it on yet - I may put it in my traveling case and use it when I am not home. It was so handy when I was threading that machine.