Lighting for the Kitchen...
From elegant to comfy, the kitchen in your home is often the busiest. You need lighting that is task oriented and adds personality and defines your space. Kitchen lighting is often created in layers. Ambient lighting includes recessed and surface mounted lighting that lights the room. Task lighting will spot light into a certain area and can be dimmed to provide a warm accent when you are not working in the space. Accent lighting decorates, enhancing architectural or design elements in the room OR giving a room a design element that wasn't there before.
Does your kitchen have a stand-alone bench or bench top? Does you kitchen have high ceilings? Pendant lighting fixtures are ideal for these situations. Different pendants offer different features. For instance, a glass pendant will illuminate the room, as well as the bench or counter top below. A spun metal pendant will create a pool of light below perfect for tasks or as an accent to your room.
Typically, a kitchen includes more than one type of lighting: pendants for over a bench, sink or counter; under cabinet or over cabinet strip lighting to accent areas in the kitchen and ambient lighting (either flush mount, track or recessed lighting) to provide general lighting for the entire room. Just give us a call and Lightscene will help design the lighting for your kitchen.
Typically, a kitchen includes more than one type of lighting: pendants for over a bench, sink or counter; under cabinet or over cabinet strip lighting to accent areas in the kitchen and ambient lighting (either flush mount, track or recessed lighting) to provide general lighting for the entire room. Just give us a call and Lightscene will help design the lighting for your kitchen.
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Pendants for Kitchen Spaces A group of pendants or a singular island pendant is ideal for islands and breakfast bars, with smaller fixtures generally hung in odd numbers, and larger pendants in pairs. Keep in mind that the pendants should not prohibit those standing around the island from seeing one another. Every space is different so heights will vary, but pendants should typically be hung with the bottom of the fixture 710mm - 860mm from the counter top. Pendants can also replace ceiling lighting fixtures in room with high ceilings in which recessed lights or flush mounted fixtures won't allow the light from the fixture to reach the floor. (See Hinkley's Flecter to the right.) |
Argo by Hinkley Lighting
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Fletcher by Hinkley Lighting
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HINT: If you are employing layers of light in your kitchen, be sure that the various lighting apparatus is on different switching. You might want to light each layer separately so you can control lights during different activities. For instance, under cabinet lighting provides great light for prepping dinner. Put the same under cabinet lighting on dimmer switch and your counter tops are softly accented.
Angelo by Feiss Lighting
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The Right Pendant!
There are pendants in every design, size and type, not to mention finish or glass type. There are pendants in very modern designs, like LBL Lighting's LED Duke Grande pendant to traditional pendants like Sea Gull's Industrial Modern Pratt Street collection (see above). The Fizz pendants by Hubbardton Forge provide task lighting for the bench top below. Put these pendants on a dimmer switch and they will provide both ambient and accent lighting for your kitchen in a minimal design. The tracking lighting system by LBL Lighting lets you combine pendants and spot lighting to meet your ambient and task lighting requirements. Spots can be ordered with LED components. |
AMBIENT LIGHTING: Lighting to provide the area with overall or general illumination. This lighting can be recessed or decorative.
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TASK LIGHTING: Adds brightness to a specific area. Can be dimmed for accent lighting.
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ACCENT LIGHTING: Highlight features with decorative lighting fixtures. SHOWN: Tabby by Feiss
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How to Make the Kitchen Elegant Chandeliers are used in kitchens as well as dining rooms and entries. Placing two large pendants or chandeliers over a bench top will add instant sophistication and turn your kitchen into an entertainment area. To add instant "glam slam" to your kitchen, consider crystal. |
Regis by Hinkley Lighting
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HINT: LED LIGHTING. Some of your decorator lighting can be made with LED components. Or, use a LED light bulb in an E27 socket or use a LED light bulb in a G9 socket. Choosing a LED light bulb gives you the opportunity to choose your own LED temperature, allowing you to adjust the bulb's color to your personal taste.
LIGHTSCENE will help select the best option for your requirements.
LIGHTSCENE will help select the best option for your requirements.
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Going Contemporary with LED pendants
American lighting designers are redefining modern with LED pendants. For instance, the Folio by Hinkley Lighting whispers sophisticated elegance. The collection is designed by Lisa McDennon for Hinkley Lighting. Inspired by the idea of structure combined with movement, Folio is composed of framed, illuminated LED panels that rotate to create diverse angles, infusing a space with crisp modernity. (shown left). |
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Decorating with Light! You can choose a lighting collection and add an aesthetic to your kitchen. Since a kitchen is often surrounded by family and entertaining areas, decorating your kitchen with lighting allows you to keep your walls free for cabinetry and counters uncluttered. Lighting can also allow you to take a plain room and add instant pizzazz. To the right, Hinkley's Somerset collection is a modernized traditional European orb with ribbed glass domes. The structure is clean and simple, but adds elegance in a Heritage Brass, Buckeye Bronze or Brushed Nickel finish. |
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Influenced by both rustic and industrial design, Feiss' Angelo chandelier celebrates the beauty of imperfection.
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Hinkley's Charlotte collection is a traditional Mid-Century look with off-white textured shades.
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Hubbardton Forge's Fizz collection with clear bubble glass and a spun brass collar, crafted with Industrial feel!
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Hinkley's Argo is brilliantly basic in design but has all the right details. The smooth lines of the Satin Black or Polished White dome have an industrial feel.
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Hinkley's Amelia collection. Lots of different sizes in spun and finished metal shades, glass shades in a variety of metal finish options.
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Hubbardton Forge's Erlenmeyer collection. Custom made with your choice of thick glass styles and metal finishes in a variety of combinations.
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Feiss' Hobson collection. Pendants in many sizes, multi-pendant combinations in metal and glass shades. There are several finish options.
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Stunning clear, textured crystals floats in a laser cut frame and gives the Lexi collection from Feiss an artisan feel. A White Shantung Silk shade sits within the crystal drum.
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Vermont Modern's Hook, Vine and Sinker pendant trio ... perfect for a kitchenette. Choices of colorful cords and finish options. (Well trained dogs not included!)
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Sea Gull Lighting's Pratt Street collection. Pratt Street is a very industrial modern design, in glass and metal shades in choices of finish colors.
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Tech Lighting's Mini Mason pendant is a modern twist on an iconic shape. The mason jar becomes chic lighting that is sure to create a warm, modern aesthetic in any space.
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Tech Lighting's Zhane suspension is ultra-modern in design and boasts hard and soft lines that converge into a simply elegant silhouette.
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