I like them all - have looked at most of them myself. I ended up with the Tech Lighting Jayden Grande pendants in clear because when they brought one out from the back to show me I just fell in love with it. I actually didn't like it all that much online and I'm not generally a crystal girl, so I'd suggest seeing them in person if at all possible because it can really change your perspective. My take on #2 with re. to DH's concerns - I don't think the polished vs. stainless or brushed is a big issue, and the pattern would probably work since it isn't competing with anything. My thinking is that the light has a dainty/delicate feel with the flower design and I'm not sure how well dainty/delicate works with your kitchen. If it were geometric I'd probably be more comfortable with it, but that's just me. In some ways the flowers add a bit of the unexpected which is fun too. Of your other 4 options - I really like #1 and think it would look great, thought it looked very pretty in person too. They have it in clear with black wrapped around the inside white cylinder which would be pretty and pull in the black granite. #3 would really be a knockout especially if you end up with stainless in your tile. (I love the tile with stainless in it, by the way.) Another light I saw that I absolutely loved, and the sales guy called "sexy" which was an apt term, and would look awesome in your kitchen - was a jet black glass one. The glass was completely opaque - not just a dark smokey gray. As I recall the light didn't diffuse out the sides of that one. It stayed black when lit with the light just projected downward. It was gorgeous and would look stunning with your granite. It had the shape of the first pic in your "alternates" list and the Tech Lighting one badgergirl shows. Stunning but maybe not as much light as you are hoping for. So many fun things to select from out there! But too many choices can make it so hard. Good luck!

I'm in love with the look of "2" hanging pendant lights. These would be my choice... Here is a link that might be useful: 2 halogen pendant lights TOO TOO FUNNY!!! I actually had somwthing like that in mind. If I do go with those pendants..should I spread them far appart so they arent to close?? The holes I have there are way too close. BTW there will be 3-4 stainless stools there depending on the space

For the uplight, you could go a few routes, especially with respect to dimming functionality. And some fixtures don't support dimming, so you need to figure that out. To that end, I suggest you think through the use cases. For example, the use case that I think I'd appreciate most is late evening, after you've retired to another room of the house, at which time a mellow indirect glow from the skylight cutout would be particularly pleasant. You might also want the more light from this source on occasion, in which case you'd want brighter lights on a dimmer. That being said, here's some options. I'm thinking two, centered on the skylights, mounted near the bottom rim of the cutout (just above the beam probably). Regarding the pendant, I know that selecting pendants is hard enough without more to think about, but one downside of a single pendant vs multiple pendants is thhat single sources create worse shadows. And the clear glass pendants above exacerbate this harsh shadow problem by being point sources, whereas the Fillsta, for example, mitigates this problem because it's effectively a uniform 31" sphere of light. This large diffuser also makes it possible to use a brighter source. For example, you could put a 300W equivalent CFL in the Fillsta, but such a bright light would be unacceptably harsh in a point source like the clear glass pendants above.

I design and build a lot of kitchens but to me this is personel preference.You are the one that has to look at it every day and nobody on the internet can help you make that decision.I really like what you have picked but it's hard to tell without seeing what goes with it?