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I love these, hoping to use them or something similar someday. It may not be your style.

sorry this is so huge!

I can see it. Thanks! It's lovely. But I'm concerned about glare at certain angles because it is open at the bottom.

Oh! I was picturing it at eye level flanking a window. I thought it would provide diffused lighting. Now that I think about it, I don't know if I've ever seen a sconce that's completely enclosed. I'll have to do some looking:)

Can you change the height of the sconces on the wall so that you don't get a glare?

Yes, the height can be changed to pretty much anything as new windows are being installed. But what would be the right height to avoid glare? Lower? At my eye level? Would that solve it? But would it look weird? And would it create glare for people of different heights?

Here's one that's got a globe, but I'm not loving it for my kitchen.

I have found several school house style pendants that would work and coordinate with the planned central semi-flush mount fixture. The other option would be two or three small flush mount fixtures.

How high are your ceilings? Ours are 9', and when we looked at our pendants held up at a lowish height, they did look weird. We ended up installing them 42" up from the 36" high counter, on the sides of our upper cabinets flanking the sink. I don't know how the glare will be, since they're not quite done yet.

Yes, I think the glare would be somewhat dependent on your height, so if you found pendants that work for the space, maybe they are a better answer. Keeping sconces off of the sink wall also might give you more freedom for curtain and window shade choices.

Our ceilings are about 8 ft 6 in. And yes, the sconces could be an issue for window dressings. I have been thinking shades and a valance would work, but no sconces wood be more flexible.

I saw a schoolhouse pendant in some pictures lavender lass posted. Like this. They seem like possibilities. Right style, enclosed globe to prevent glare. I'm trying to decide if they would be kind of overwhelming in a small kitchen. Much as I love the stripes--and I have blue stripes currently on the central fixture-- maybe plain would fit into the kitchen better.

I was planning an over sink sconce and wouldn't have thought of glare. I'm interested to see what you end up going with.

I should note that I'm particularly sensitive to glare. And my current sconce is probably particularly bad. So I don't know that most people have any problems with sconces.

You could try the balloon test, blowing up balloons to 4" dia. and hanging them from your ceiling to see if that size works for you in your space. : )

The balloons would look ever so chic with the butcher paper I currently have cut out and hanging up to double check the new window size.

I, too, am very sensitive to glare/light. We have a flush mount overhead light above the sink. It is fully enclosed and produces no glare.

Did you look at schoolhouse pendants that would be compatible with your overhead light? They are always enclosed and frosted and I think they'd provide a nice light.

Thanks everyone! Yes, I think I am leaning towards a school house pendant like the one I linked above. Mocking it up is probably the way to go. I am also a little weird about having things hang over my head in my workspace--switching to a wall mount pot rack for this reason. So the mock up would give me an idea whether pendants would bother me. (I swear I'm not quite this strange in person.). Definitely keeping flush mounts as another possibility.

You could do two recessed lights on dimmers & the sconces. In most instances I tend to choose form over function but I really appreciate having good lighting over the sink area.

On the other hand, I'm also a fan of school house pendants.

I typed "Schoolhouse wall sconce" into Google images, and got lots of photos. I ordered my schoolhouse light fixtures from Rejuvenation, and you can mix and match shades to the bases/sconces that you like.

Also, Barn Light electric has a line of matching sconces and pendants: 7" Schoolhouse Wall Sconce

Yes, both rejuvenation and schoolhouse have them. The one I linked above is from schoolhouse. I think they have smaller shades than what I saw on rejuvenation. Smaller would probably be better for my application.

Edited to add: Oh, I see, I didn't read carefully enough. Thanks for the link to the scones!