Island pendant lighting help, please!
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Help me decide if my island pendant lights need to be moved back
Comments (7)Thank you all for your great feedback!! Let me clarify a bit... The island will be for gathering, eating, kids doing homework, etc. There's a second island closer to the range that will serve as a food prep station. I already have two recessed lights over the center of the island in question. The pendant lights are more or less decorative, but they do provide a nice amount of light. Anyway, it was my lighting guy who suggested the whole curved positioning of the pendants. It sounded like a clever idea at the time, but it looks sorta strange now that it's installed. Maybe it seems awkward because I've never seen pendants arranged like that. Maybe there's a reason they're not arranged like that... teedup1, you're absolutely right about the head shadow on plates. That will definately be a problem with the current placement. You wonderful people have confirmed my gut instinct! I'm gonna move them back and probably alighn them in straight line. Now I've gotta break the news to my builder!! one of the recessed lights is partly included in this picture:...See MorePendant Lighting Size - please help!
Comments (3)I vote for 2 of the smaller pendants. I agonized over this decision too, and I found it helpful to take some bowls in the corresponding sizes, wrap them in alum foil, and coerce some volunteers to hold them in the proposed sites, just so I could get a visual perspective on my options....See MoreHelp for pendant lights on L shaped island
Comments (5)Curious what you decided. Having the same dilemma with our planned l-shaped island. 113” long on one side, 60” on the other side of the L- whole thing is 36” wide. Looking at 8” pendants _ do we need 4 or 5. The 60” side is essentially our dining spot with stools, the longer side has sink/trash/dishwasher. We will also have 4 recessed over walkways and under cabinets lighting along 2 walls....See MoreHELP please… How to space 3 pendant lights over 9’ island?
Comments (12)Yes, I had to do that too. Tape the island size on the sub floors or build one from cardboard...this will bug you if you get it wrong. Or just go with what you were reading as a recommendation. Good luck! Make sure that you have plenty of aisle width planned, the island electrical won't let you push the cabinets a few inches either way....See Moreperky_2
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