Would love advice on kitchen lighting and mixed metal finishes!

8 years ago

I am terrible at lighting! We've got a major kitchen overhaul happening, and almost everything is agreed upon except the lighting and hardware. Overall kitchen is avery simple. Cabinets will be a darkish grey (SW Gauntlet Gray) shaker, with white shaker uppers. White subway tile with gray grout, floors are a walnut stain hardwood. Soapstone counters. There is already can and under cabinet lighting planned. I need pendants (2? 3?) over the peninsula and one pendant over the table/breakfast area. The peninsula is only 6 1/2 feet, and I have no idea how many lights I need, or how large. I tend to lean toward industrial style lighting, or schoolhouse.

I was thinking of brass pendants over the peninsula, something like one of these:

And a basic warehouse pendant over the table, like this:

So, here's the thing-- I really love the idea of mixing finishes (I'm not much of matchy matchy person). My plan was to use a champagne brass faucet and hardware on the gray cabinets, and an ORB hardware on the uppers (I don't particularly care for the brass on the white look). Appliances are stainless. I guess the lighting should help tie all this in? Is this TOO much mixing?

The general kitchen plan:

I'm open to any ideas/criticisms! The more I try to figure it out, the more confused I'm getting. The layout shows white counters throughout, but it will actually be soapstone, with cararra marble on the little L shape near the banquette (free remnant piece!). Any ideas are SO incredible welcome and appreciated!

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Anglophilia

8 years ago

I like mixing finishes in a kitchen - have done it for decades. But I much prefer pulls to all be the same, especially when the cabinet lowers and uppers are different colors. You do need to tie them together somehow!

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smm5525
8 years ago
I'm mixing chrome hardware for my brass fixtures. My island ones will likely be the second one in your pic. If I were you, I'd do all hardware the same. Otherwise, it might look to disjointed.
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Well. if you follow trends, then only mix metal finishes that are easy to change later. And aren't expensive to change. Like knock off lighting. Faucets and pulls are more long lived. But, scale back the scale from the giant oversized lights that have seemed to dominate people's Pins for the last 7-8 years. Scale can only be ignored as a room element for a while, but it always comes back to bite you. Giant brass everything is only popular now because of the very cold white and gray look that people feel is lacking in warmth. Because it is. That gray/white trend is changing too. Warm woods are making a great deal of headway in the style setting locations. And modern, not transitional, designs. Warm wood slab cabinets are the next hot thing. Like a mix of 60's -80's, but with less pop art influence. More Zen Modern. If you are interested in trends and want to get ahead of them.
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I had too much wine? you lost me! Antique brass in the kitchen is fine with stainless anything and every thing, I'd match the luster on the brass. .I would not add a third finish in the kitchen. If you want polished nickel in the kitchen? Eliminate brass totally in the kitchen and stick to stainless as your second metal. As to you can do "whatever you want"? O course you can! But you can choose to be miserable too : ) In other words....... two metals. In whatever place. Not three
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Btw, the link to the chandelier in your original post does work. If you want to add photos to your comment, follow these steps : -copy the link -start a new comment (or edit an old one) -choose Houzz Photo -choose Houzz url. Paste the link in. You want to be sure you have the complete link; if you do the picture will show in the bottom box. Or if you've saved the picture to an Ideabook you can skip the copy and paste and choose the photo from Ideabooks -click Insert I don't know if it's a Houzz glitch or slight user error but I'm seeing a lot of boxes with links in comments lately. The links don't always work but we can get to it by following the More Info tab. Hope this helps :)
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You can easily do the golds and have the brushed stainless for the faucet. Faucets are kind of in a separate world. If you want real punch, do the faucet in the aged brass! It will bring things up to a new level. But be prepared for some friends not liking it, simply because it is new and really on trend. I see this trend lasting for at least the life of your faucet! 4-7 years! Go for it! Notice the photo I posted with the deep gray lower cabinets and it shows the gold cabinet hardware with the white sink, stainless range and gold faucet! Awesome look.
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herbflavor
8 years ago
for your space, from these options I would do the brass with frosty white shade...one over table and one over peninsula. use different wattage/dimmers in bulbs to create different effect...The two will be positioned in a visual line with each other, so use of same fixture or nearly identical ones would be my choice. I think with the frost white shade there may be something else quite similar if you want a little change.....but I would want them to resemble each other. I'm not caring for the warehouse pendant....the pendant with the exposed bulb is okay....but the frost shade is really nice, fairly upscale, blends in, has some style..not too much...gives a good vibe.The other way I could go with your space is a bit of a glam effect over the table with a chandelier....all the light reflectiveness would give a prettiness and focus...play up your nice corner there...then just stick with recessed cans over the peninsula.
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Stacey M
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8 years ago
Lily'smom, I think I like your style! And I certainly love your attitude! I hope you'll post lots of photos of the finished product. I admit I do have a tendency to mix like crazy-when I got married, we mixed the settings across patterns in our wedding china, and the poor woman at Bloomingdales looked at me like I was some sort of heathen. Thanks all for your opinions- I think I do need to try to unify somehow, I love the eclectic look, but I don't want it to seem like I just arbitrarily chose things in the kitchen. I'm trying to find a simple light fixture that has some brass and some ORB in it, and like the idea of using a similar style throughout. The problem is that I feel like many of the bronze fixtures are a bit heavy, and the kitchen is not big, by any stretch of the imagination.

The most important thing of course, is that the space be comfortable, homey and churn out wonderful meals and good times with friends and family. Hopefully, without offending anyone's matching sensibilities :)
smm5525
8 years ago
Oh there is a very pretty brass fixture with orb or chrome mixed. Let me find it! I wanted it but it's too big for my island!
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smm5525
8 years ago
The other one I was thinking of is saved on my laptop. But here's two others I found. Not orb but still so pretty
smm5525
8 years ago
Found it!
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Bumblebeez SC Zone 7
8 years ago
I have been looking at pendants lately for a brass and stainless kitchen and all my favorites are shown! Good taste lol! I am probably going with the Hudson Pelham , btw.
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smm5525
8 years ago
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Also look at Rebecca Zaveloff kitchens. She does lots of mixed metals and finishes. Love all of them.
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smm5525
8 years ago
http://kitchenlabdesign.com
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Stacey M
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8 years ago
Oooh, smm5525, I love that last orb one! I saved those first two also, but had thought they might be too heavy for the space. Where is that one from? I like the second one a lot, I took a look at it in my local lighting store, where I just happen to have gift card!
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smm5525
8 years ago
http://www.wayfairsupply.com/Elegant-Lighting-Santos-1-Light-Globe-Pendant-1448D16-L6087-K~ELU3253.html?refid=GX64528296329-ELU3253_15474876&device=m&ptid=142358807356&PiID%5B%5D=15474876&gclid=CL-E4cnsps8CFZSGfgod6zwE9Q
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Stacey M
Original Author
8 years ago
Oh man, those Rebecca Zaveloff kitchen are to DIE for, I probably shouldn't have looked! It does sort of remind me that if I had a million dollars to spend, I could have some REALLY nice stuff :) I actually spent my entire morning not working, but trying to figure out how I could get a French bistro table almost exactly like the one that's near the banquette in the Webster kitchen on that site. I would love a narrow marble topped table with an iron trestle base. Gorgeous.
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smm5525
8 years ago
Yeah I was planning my finishes and then found her site and it's like she read my mind!
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caligirl8i8
8 years ago
Smm5525 do you have a link to the first light fixture you shared? I love it!
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smm5525
8 years ago
Let me find it!
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smm5525
8 years ago
http://www.shadesoflight.com/mixed-metal-schoolhouse_pendant.html?&variantID=597617&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=GSC+-+Shopping+-+Medium+Priority&adpos=1o2&creative=72522552152&device=m&matchtype=&network=g&gclid=CLTovtP3xM8CFYhbfgod_98PbA
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