IMO in a living room layered lighting is good, starting with a table lamp or wall sconce in each corner at chest height. Also task light for wall art if needed. If you get a ceiling light, make sure it is on a dimmer. Nick Lewis on youtube has a lot of great ideas about lighting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1vX-q69zH4&t=7s

Just to add the curtains are down and the carpet is being replace lol.
I was looking to get led lighting or something like that but we have no lights in ceiling or wall, just through outlet. We are getting our electric upgraded. And we are doing repairs for water damage day after we moved in. So looking for ideas that won’t cost a lot

How big is the room? You can add plug-in wall sconces, available online if not in your local stores. When the electrician is at your house doing the service box upgrade, you can get an estimate for adding an overhead light.

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I would do a floor plan or arrange your furniture how you want it and then determine what kind of lighting you want. We have floor outlets about 2/3 of the way from our TV wall so we can "float" our couch in front of TV and have lighting there. It will be worth it to do your electrical so that it meets your needs. If you just use wall outlets, your furniture will all have to be lined up against the walls.

Floor lamps and table lamps will help.

My current rental has no overhead lighting in the living room or any of the bedrooms. The bedrooms have switched outlets. I have switched fixtures hanging on eye hooks in the bedrooms and I just leave those switched on, then use the wall switch to actually turn them on and off. The master has two Ikea pendant lights with nice bright, 4000K bulbs. The kids' rooms have fun plug-in chandeliers. In the living room we have a big plug in lantern pendant, Ikea, 4000K. No switch. Since it goes behind the couch to the outlet, we use a smart plug and turn it on and off with Alexa.

I'll have some tiny hooks in the ceiling to spackle. If I were not renting I would use some paintable cable covers to make the cords a bit neater.

How's it looking with the new carpet?

Do searches here on Houzz for “plug-in wall sconces” and “swag chandeliers pendants plug in kits”. You will see types of light fixtures that plug into an ordinary wall socket but which you can easily hang up on the wall or from the ceiling. IKEA also sells a lot of these type of fixtures in expensively.

They will keep things lit until you figure out where exactly you would like to have an electrician wire your ceilings. Never do electrical work yourself. ;)

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Do you want to keep the textured ceiling?