Please help! Is 3x8-9 ft island too skinny?
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Comments (13)@Patricia Colwell thank you for sharing the pictures of your island. This is useful for me for reasons other than what the OP is concerned about. I now get to see the work-horse stainless steel sinks (I am in the process of finalizing my sink and faucet). Could you please share the sink depth and also the faucet that you have (Is that a Brizo)? I know from experience that for every functional sink and location there is the right faucet that is a game changer. I am looking for a faucet with the right reach and clearance. My sink will be on the perimeter, however....See MoreHanging 108" Curtains - 9 ft ceiling...Tips please
Comments (6)Hang them high and wide. I would remove the mirror because you want the open panels to lie against the wall and there shouldn't be room for much between the center panels. If this is a dining room, most people don't like to watch themselves masticate anyway. Unless doing over the top glam style in the room, puddling and breaking are usually discouraged. If you like the look, try it, but rings take the look toward casual, so a contraction with the puddling. One long rod with an additional support in the center should easily span both windows, giving you room to pull the curtains back and away from the window. Finials are an option, but you do lose that wall space with them. Buy all the panels you think you may need and experiment. Be sure you can return the ones you don't need in the end. The rod needs to look substantial enough to support the visual weight of the drapes, so you may want to experiment with that as well - returnable, of course. Try one long and then two short is you need to and vary the thickness. Get a friend to help hold things in place while you look from a distance. Hope that helps some....See More4" or 6" Recessed Lighting, 9 & 10 Ft. Ceilings
Comments (50)Our house is 20 years old and had 6" pots throughout the kitchen, adjoining family room and hallway and I hated the look of the PAR bulbs and they needed changing constantly . Too expensive to change them all so we used a Hubbell retro kit that just clipped in and replaced the old bulbs with a complete trim and light kit when they first became available in LED with 4000k and made them more flush with the ceiling. After 10 years we just updated the LED's with a more subdued trim kit as we renovate the room with another quick fit kit but this time the kit is controllable via blue tooth and the colour temperature on each light (or groups) can be changed so I can vary from 5000K to 2500K if I want a more relaxed scene before bedtime. We have an iPad that stays in the room and controls our fireplace, Sonos, Ring and now our lighting. Lights can be turned off and on and dimmed using the wall switch or the app if I want to change the colour of the light and I can do it all from the couch (especially great for napping when I'm too lazy to get up and turn the lights off on the wall switch). They were cheap ($35) and may not last 10 years but I love the flexibility and I love grouping my lights to change a whole room at once. It's not the fanciest trim but I find it blends as well as the new pots we put in the bedroom. These ones were by Commercial Electric from Home Depot - a budget retrofit for those that don't want to rip out the old 6" or 4" cans and so easy to do yourself. Here is the link https://www.homedepot.ca/product/commercial-electric-5-inch-6-inch-bluetooth-led-recessed-downlight-trim-21-colour-options-670-lumens-dimmable/1001200601. We have a mix of 4" and 6" in our house. I like the 4" in the bedroom and master bath. I like the wider beam spread we get from the 6" in the kitchen. I love that these kits don't leave us stuck with one colour temperature that comes with an integrated bulb. Lots of options out there so you can change your look pretty easily....See MoreWould two 18in pendants be big enough over a 9ft 4in by 4ft 4in island
Comments (34)I too have spent an enormous amount of time looking at lighting and it feels like I’ve just reached a whole new level of adulting 😆. I love your Kichler light and it pairs so nicely with the dining room fixture! After your first comment on this thread I looked into getting that Kichler light for our kitchen but the brass one only comes with clear glass. Bummer! Anyways, I’m so thankful for both of your help! After spending so much time trying to figure it out on my own I was starting to forget what kind of lighting I was wanting in the first place 😅. I think the Hinkley one will be perfect for our kitchen!...See Moredermnp
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