Yes the south is known for their mopheads! I responded to your other thread re: hydrangeas. I'm zone 6B and I have a few micro climates that are probably about zone 7 so I can get away w/ growing some types of roses that typically don't do too well in our climate. My back hedge of Nikko blue hydrangea was in a lightly shaded area until my giant Blue Atlas Cedar came down this past Fall. Now my Nikkos's are in blazing sunlight. I have a heavy clay soil and I only water them occasionally when I see that they are getting very, very droopy typically in a heatwave. Then I'll get out the soaker hose and put it on for a few hrs. a day a few days in a row. I don't feed them but I do heavily amend the soil w/ iron to get a bluer shade. Our soil is very, very rich as I understand the original owner was a die-hard gardener. Since the cedar came down there isn't a bed of needles around the base of the hydrangea anymore & that used to help me get a better shade of blue. This yr. though one suffered an iron deficiency that was pretty easy for me to correct. Other than that I'm pretty much hands off w/ my hydrangea. This yr. some of them really took off size wise all of a sudden and I thought that it wasn't going to be a good yr. for them but my Nikko's are still flowering better than my 2 different versions of everblooming hydrangeas that are in my side beds. The Nikko blue row is at least 7yrs old but I plant at least 2 new hydrangea somewhere every yr. My in-laws just gave me an oak leaf hydrangea for my birthday last night for my white garden. I've never planted an oak leaf before so I'm looking forward to that. I'll have a bank of those surrounding the bistro area of our patio.

I must have not been thinking. Even I know that’s too many lights. And yes I agree Edison lights don’t give out enough light but there are other options that will which is why they’ll be on dimmers. Thanks for helping me see the obvious and reading thru a lengthy post!

Well, a king size bed is 16" wider than a queen size. So, say you currently plan on having the switches 8" away from the bed. If you make them 16" away, it will accommodate if you switch to king, but still easily within arm's reach. That's my thought anyways :)

With a 9' ceiling, I would do the two pendants (I like the first one for light) and then I would do a wider, perhaps starburst type style and it can be 24-26" wide and fit nicely in your room, just keep height to around 20-24". If over a bed, it can be a bit taller because you don't need 7' clearance over bed to bottom of chandelier.