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Sometimes those bright yellow walls you insisted on painting make you cringe. Other days, you couldn’t be happier with your decision. Moods change. Vibes vary. And your opinions on your home aesthetic shift with the weather. The ability to customize your home to match whatever mood, vibe, or opinion you have on any given day could be a total game-changer for your overall happiness, but you can’t just pick up a new can of paint every morning. That’s where the Govee Lyra, a floor lamp that brings customizable smart home lighting into any room with a few taps on your phone, comes in.

I’ve had the pleasure of playing with the Govee Lyra for a few weeks and can say with 100 percent certainty that it is worth the hype. When I say “playing with,” I truly mean just that; it’s the most fun you can have with a lamp. Here’s why.

The Govee Lyra RGBIC smart corner floor lamp is a low-profile lamp that silently sits in the corner of a room until a mood change is needed. It’s surprisingly easy to put together, although my initial reaction to all the separate parts in the box would have told a different story. Despite my first instinct, it took maybe 10 minutes, tops, to get the lamp ready to go. I turned it on immediately and started haphazardly pressing all the buttons on the remote in excitement like a child. The sheer number of color and lighting options on the remote alone will blow your mind. Once I realized it connected to an app on my phone, as well as smart home assistants (like Alexa and Google Assistant), the world of customization really opened up.

Thanks to Govee’s cutting-edge RGBIC technology, the Lyra smart lamp offers 16 million unique color varieties and simultaneously displays multiple colors at the same time. And that is not an exaggeration. It will be years, probably, before I see every variation this lamp is capable of. But I have dabbled with as many shades and settings as possible in the past few weeks and it’s truly jaw-dropping.

When you want to set the mood in your room, you just open up the app and tap until you feel the serotonin overflow. Feeling stressed? Open up the “emotion” tab from the scene selector and choose “breathe.” This will offer a light show that imitates slow, deep breathing with soothing colors. It ended up being a personal favorite setting for me throughout the workday. Feeling excited? Go with the “energetic” option for a dancing light show. I chose this option for a fun evening with friends and they loved it. There are even lighting and color options for romantic nights in, movie ambiance, casual nature-inspired scenes, and my personal favorites, funny game-inspired animations. It’s impossible not to be in a good mood when you’re watching a greedy snake of light eat the rest of the light strip.

If you’d rather be in control of the color palette itself, there’s a complete customization lab on the app. You can segment the light strip however you wish, choose brightness levels, warmth, and even find new shades on the color wheel. When you truly want your personality to shine through, this is the best way.

With the Govee Lyra, you can use smart home lighting for a musical light show that delivers a concert-like experience from the comfort of your couch (the ultimate couch tour). In music mode, the smart lighting can dance along to the beat of your favorite tunes in a variety of ways.

This is by far my favorite feature of the Govee Lyra. I’ve used it in sync with a projector to stream live shows and it’s almost as good as the real thing. I’ve also paired it with my favorite Spotify playlists and the massive collection of vinyl records I’ve picked up throughout the pandemic. I can say with certainty that it works seamlessly no matter what musical option you choose. It picks up the vibrations and creates a customized light show in sync with your tunes, and all you have to do is choose which dancing light option is your favorite: energetic, rhythm, bounce, vibrate, strike, or hopping. They’re all worth trying.

Along with all of these other intoxicating features, the Govee Lyra also works as ambient lighting in your home. When you just want to kick back and relax, read, or even work, you can set the color-inducing Govee RGBIC option that simultaneously displays multiple colors or keep it simple with the adjustable WW (white + cool white) lighting. I found that facing it toward the wall delivers the perfect low-key ambiance for casual lighting that suits your mood. It doesn’t always have to be a personalized light show. You’d be surprised how much light this single strip of bulbs can emit.

There’s no need to make drastic design changes in your home on the regular. Adding the discreet Govee Lyra floor lamp to any room gives you the ability to completely personalize the mood and aesthetic at the tap of your phone screen. And there’s literally millions of lighting and color options to choose from, so you’re definitely getting your money’s worth. Personally, I’m ready to add one to every room in my home.

Get the Govee Lyra RGBIC floor lamp for yourself and find out how much fun you can have with smart home lighting. Spoiler alert: it’s a lot.