I have 8 foot ceilings....here is what we did.

Here is what we did over the peninsula (don't mind the small hole cutout in the ceiling) and another angle over the island

Kim

Could you post a photo of your kitchen or a rendering so the amazing people here would provide more specific feedback? Are you looking for ideas for over an island, sink, or general lighting?

This is our kitchen with 8' ceiling showing pendants over the island and recessed lights.

We have 9ft ceilings in the rest of the main floor, but had to lower to 8 feet in the kitchen due to plumbing issues. We did similar to rikerk and used a single long fixture rather than multiple pendants. I mostly see pendants these days and was a bit worried, but I really like how ours looks with the lower ceiling.

This is the original lighting from 1964 (this is the state our kitchen was in last New Year.) That box light was this incredible super structure into the attic. Except for the yellowed panels, it gave lots of light.

This is after. We kept the light over the sink

thanks everyone. keep em coming if you have em :) this is really helpful for us. nhb

and waterstone gantry in tuscan brass (different color shown in link) http://blog.qualitybath.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/gantry-270x300.jpg

so I'm thinking as plain as possible here I keep going back to porcelain but my husband likes the idea of keeping it all walnut all the time. lol

Our ceilings are a little shy of 8' due to some additional subflooring that was needed to help tie entry/mudroom addition into original house. We used 15" globe pendants from Home Depot (about $30/ea) over the island and 6" matching globe pendants on either side of the kitchen sink.

We used equally spaced mini-pendents over the island along with recessed lights.

Love your granite!!

I also have 8ft. ceilings. I do not have seating at my island. The bottom of the 2 outside pendants is 30" above the countertop. The center light above the sink is 36" above the counter.

Tech Lighting Monorail with Lava II heads (you can select and swap out heads as desired) and 8' ceiling. (Edited to add that I don't think the cat will make it up there).

Drone view:)

8 ft. ceilings, small island.

Here is our island with lights. I worried they would be too big, but they aren't at all. I think being open helps. Our ceiling is probably lower than 8 b/c we had to lower it a bit to even it out.

Ours are 7 ft 6 inch ceilings. 100 year old New England Cape Cod home.

with 8 foot ceilings, I would skip pendants! But I know I'm alone in that position :) They just seem so overdone and expected, and recessed lights make the kitchen feel much bigger.

kelleg69, I love those pendants! Beautiful.

Our prior home had 10 foot ceilings and our home now has 8 foot ceilings. We have only recessed lights in our kitchen to have the feeling of more space. Our range is in the island and the island hood is the attention getter.

My kitchen came with builder grade florescent and I hated it for 18 years but it did provide a lot of light. When the electrician installed the pendants, I initially thought I might hate them because I was used to nothing across the line of sight. Now, I love my whimsical pendants. I have LED bulbs in them, about 3000 Kelvin because I like that light quality.

We skipped pendant lighting with our 8-foot ceiling. I don't usually like the look, and i prefer unobstructed sight lines.

@nhbaskets Pendants looks great! Can you tell me from countertop to bottom of pendant, what the distance is?

30”

I personally dont thing pendants should be hung in rooms with 8 foot ceilings. You stil have to clear at least 30 in above island so now you are stuck with a short distance from the fixture to the ceiling , just looks very strange. They look stubby.

what about using semi-flush pendants vs minis?