That is a great blog teacups! I really enjoyed looking at the lighting ideas for kitchen islands. http://belgianpearls.blogspot.com/2011/03/kitchen-island-lighting-fixtures.html

Hi all! Sorry for the hiatus - we've been doing window treatments, hanging art, and COOKING! so I haven't been checking the blog lately! paso - the spice drawers are 8 1/2" wide and 20" deep. They have three adjustable shelves. Filling the spice bottles wasn't too bad. Mostly it was just pouring from one jar to another. At first I just had the jars sitting on the shelves and noticed that they slid back a forth a bit. I just put in some cushy shelf lining and now they stay put perfectly! minnie - we love our American Range! The ovens heat very evenly, no hot spots or problems. We have a griddle on ours and have found that it tends to run on the cool side. So we set the temp dial up higher than what the documentation recommends and it works great. Overall it's pretty easy to keep clean (we have the black front with stainless top). The burners kick butt and heat very rapidly! And, even though it's slightly OT, I love my potfiller!! Chris

Thanks for keeping up with me Beekeeperswife! I did check out Redroze's kitchen and her pendants are 10" wide and 27" long vs these ones which are 12" wide and 32" long. My DH is worried that they will be too big for both the island and the kitchen. Our island is about a foot shorter than Redroze's but it is about 1 1/2' wider. Also our kitchen is smaller (10'4" by 15 for the working area). If you include the eating area it is 22' x 15. I think I may need to go just slightly smaller. The problem is that I love this particular pendant because it is a little more modern than any of the other lantern style pendants that I have seen.

Deborah. 3 bowls over a 9' island will make some dark spots either at the ends of the island or between the light sources. I will assume that the island is a kitchen work space also. Can you put some downlight cans in the ceiling also? Maybe put in a 4 'to 5' linear pendant centered on the island and add 2 dowdnlights, one at either end. Jim Sale