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Help for pendant lights on L shaped island

Anthea Schneider

3 years ago

I need help determining how many pendants I need for my L shaped Island that will 96” x 96” x 3 ft wide my ceilings are 10 ft.
The pendants I want are 7x8
Please see pictures any advise is much appreciated

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m_barth
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
Following this. We have almost the exact same island shape/size. One "arm" of the L goes into the kitchen and the other has seating. We plan on having 2 lights over the seating arm, but I am not sure on size or placement yet.
Anthea Schneider
Original Author
3 years ago
Thanks, I was thinking 2 on the seating side and one on the non seating side...
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m_barth
3 years ago
How is the rest of your kitchen laid out? I'm just curious if it's similar to mine or not. I'm glad to find another person with an L shaped island. It was the only shape that made sense for our layout, but I've never actually seen one in real life!
Anthea Schneider
Original Author
3 years ago
It’s under construction at the moment but I have attached the before pictures.... and then pictures of what I hope it will look like
Cathy CIolek
last year
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.

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