How To Position Pendant Lights Over A Kitchen Island
As for positioning centering the lighting is most common and offers even light distribution.
How to position pendant lights over a kitchen island. The general guideline is to hang a pendant 30-36 above your countertop. Heres how to determine how high to hang your pendants youll need three people but its worth it. After last weeks design dilemma discussion on pendant lights in a kitchen many of you asked me to do a post on how to coordinate pendant lights with the chandelier you hang over the table in your breakfast nook.
How many pendants you need for your island will depend on its size and how high you hang them but two to three should be adequate for most islands. Making design decisions can be tough and its often hard to visualize how something will look before its installed. Have a second person measure the distance from the bottom of the pendant.
You should Space a pendant every 2 feet or so above a kitchen island and pick the right size of pendant to suit your island length. The size of your kitchen and the island itself will play a key role in the positioning of the lights and how many to choose. The first photo is the kitchendining area before pendants-the chandelier is in the dining area.
32 is great spacing between the countertop and bottom of the fixture. Divide the length of your counter by the number of pendant lights you plan to install. We recommend that lights should sit around 30 to 36 inches above your countertop.
Measure upward from the counter and install the lights so that they float 30 inches above the counter. If its not centered you have to be sure you have adequate lighting on the surface from other luminaires. If your island is 30 inches and you have two pendant lights then you should place them 15 inches from each other.
For a smaller island that only requires two pendants you want to find the center point and then space the lights 30-36 inches apart with the widest part of. This is a generally applied rule when symmetry is in place. If you have 3 pendant lights place them 10 inches from each other.