Advice needed for Dining Room Lights please
Loraine Travers
4 years ago
I have recently moved into a new build home with a kitchen/diner and have brought a lovely long rectangle table. The problem being is that I cannot decide which type of lights i need, so would love some professional help please. We have two roses but the lights fit at either end of the table rather than centred over the table, it feels to me like they are too far apart. Please can you advise which type of lights I should get, or should I move the table down and just use one of the lights over the centre of the table but then what would i do with the middle light?
I would appreciate any help you can give me.
thank you
Loraine
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