Hello fellow TPOers- I have to put this aside for now- more pressing decisions to make. But one last word: Rebecca: If you like the bell jar lanterns in the last photo that you posted- go for it! You don't need to obsess about matching your peninsula chairs to the finish on your pendants. Ha Ha! I know you already are obsessed, but honestly I think you could make those work. How many inches are they? That will determine how high you would need to hang them above the peninsula. I would guess and say in the photo above they hang about 3 inches before the top part begins. Now because your ceilings are 7 1/2' you may need a smaller pendant- do these come in different sizes? Note the photo of Nini's kitchen that I posted above- her lanterns are very close to her ceiling. I'm not sure of the height of her ceilings as she is not on the FKB. Do you like the way hers look? Now I've added one more photo. Do these pendants look familiar? Is this what you are going for??? Decisions, decisions.....Good luck and let me know what you decide. PS How is the demo going?

No absolutely have never felt they are too high - I feel like lower would be annoying for conversation because when we host we routinely have people at the island while we are cooking and preparing , setting out food etc. I got our tiles from a local tile store- there wasn't a brand name on the box. it just said Made in Spain.

@Porter, I didn't get the LED Edison bulbs yet-the store where we got the pendants gave me 3 halogen bulbs to see if it was better for me as I didn't like the yellow light at all. I am still going to order them when I do a Prime order to see the difference. That fixture is in a nook--off centered from the pendants--it comes with a chain ;however I am undecided if a table is going to go there or it will stay open, so had it semi-flush mounted. Does it look odd or out of place? @Beth, Right now they are 34" so when the quartz is installed, it should be about 32 33" from counter to bottom of lights. They seem high, but any lower they are going to be in our eyes.

I ended up putting in Nicor DRD 2" LED lights. Nicor does free assessments that I found very helpful. I've been very happy with the lights. I put in a 5x4 grid, so 20 lights. The symmetric alternate was 3x4 = 12. Knowing what I know now, I'd probably have gone with 12 instead of 20, I like having really low lighting in the evening, and never turn it all the way up. But I'm quite happy with what I did, too, and at the lowest setting, it's nice evening light. Although the LED lights don't draw a lot of electricity, because I have 20, they flickered with a standard Lutron dimmer, so I had to get the Pro model, and now it works fine