23 Kitchen Pendant Lighting Ideas That Will Elevate and Illuminate Your Cooking Space

Kitchen pendant lighting comes in various kinds of form with different styles to achieve certain practical effects. If you are going to add pendant light in the kitchen, there is a consideration you should know first.

To be wise, you can start to consider functional lighting type that you will provide in the kitchen. This consideration needs to be taken first before thinking any fixture or aesthetic style you like. The illumination type of pendant depends on the type which is already available inside the room. Basically, there are four forms of this kind of lights that will be explained below.

How many types of pendant light are available for my kitchen?

The first pendant lighting is task light. This lighting will illuminate targeted area. It will help you to see clearly when you are working or cooking foods in the kitchen.

Sometimes, you may also need pendants that can illuminate properly for kitchen task. You may need it when chopping or read a cookbook. In this case, you can use fixture which aims light downward.

Another pendant lighting form to choose is ambient. It is for general purpose which illuminates whole are or room gently. It is kind of task lighting opposite.

In order to brighten the room, you can consider about using the multiple lights. Spread them all across your kitchen area. Ambient pendant lighting with softer light is able to create intimate mood as well.

The next form is accent lighting. It will be able to highlight design feature including beautiful material or art piece. It is typically not used to light targeted accent. Instead, it will be good to highlight certain appliances or items in the kitchen such as for stone countertops.

The last one to be explained in this section is decorative pendant light. It is meant to be decorative feature inside your cooking space. Before choosing decorative light, make sure that you already provide sufficient ambient and task light. To choose lighting that will be star feature, pick the one which casts interesting shadow on ceiling.

You should know not only about the shapes, but also the right height. Determine the right height for placing your light appropriately.

Considering the functional advantage is quite necessary matter before picking pendant lighting style. You need to get sufficient light in the kitchen to work with the recipe well. You are free to choose any lighting by adjust what you really need.

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