Struggling with kitchen lighting, help please?
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Comments (1)Hi It's difficult to tell without seeing the room, but I imagine you are finding it a little dark? These hanging pendants are a great feature and they can light up your breakfast bar surface well, but they won't be adequate lighting for the whole room. If you go straight for another central ceiling light you will probably find you still have areas of the room that are too dark for the tasks you need to do and that it will detract from the look you have created with the pendant lights. It might be a good idea to think first about which areas need the most light. For example you might put some LED strips under your wall units. These will provide good task lighting onto the counters below and give a nice glowing effect for mood lighting too. You could have these fitted properly, but we just have some simple ones from IKEA stuck beneath ours with Blu Tac. They are very user friendly and you can't tell at all that its such a quick fix job. You could even do the same beneath the cupboard doors to give a glow from underneath to light the floor. Then if you have any glass cabinets you could put some little spots inside them to highlight any glassware or decorative items you might have. You could also think about table/desk lamps to highlight dark corners. Phillips Hue, or Amazon Alexa are worth investigating as a way of controlling lots of separate lights, but if you're splashing out on an electrician I would have them do under cabinet lights and some recessed down-lights in the ceiling - then everything can be controlled with a couple of light switches and you won't have another light fitting competing with your lovely pendant feature. Hope this helps!...See MoreReplacing strip lights in kitchen & covering ugly stuff - please help!
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