Lighting ideas for our kitchen redesign
Hi,
Looking for some cool ideas for ambient and task lighting for this kitchen remodel.
Currently, we have a lowered ceiling that is 1.6m above the hob, and our existing setup has a 30cm (to fit ceiling extractor) deep bulkhead on the ceiling to house the ceiling extractor and some spots.
As the new bulkhead will be alot bigger (to match new 2.6 x 1.2m isdland size) I'm hoping we could reduce the depth of this bulkhead and put some of the extractor into the ceiling.
We like the idea of some smoke glass pendants over left side of the island, with some nice filament bulbs. We want some nice ambient lighting for the evening.
Plinths light could work on the island and tall oven run units but not the sink run as a dishwasher has a notch out to allow door to open.
I've seen lights in the true handleless rails too.
I dd wonder about creating a box around the perimeter of this section of the room and have a shadow gap uplighting , but not sure that will look good going round the entrance doorway.
Any ideas/photos much appreciated!
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- island plinth glow
- island spots (added already, but not sure if better layout)
- island pendants (one side, same hand-blown glass with filament LED as in last 2 photos)
- sink run under worktop rail glow
- can't do sink run plinth glow as dishwasher notchout)
- 2 floating shelf lights either side of window (up or down)
Any advice on nice combinations?
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4 years agoThen again, both floating shelves and wall fixtures might be overkill (perhaps uplights above the shelves), but two rows of shelves would be nice.
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4 years agoTried 5 spots but they are too much and don’t light just island. Angled in spots would be too glarey from other end. Was thinking maybe 2 twins somehwer but what’s best position considering we will have cluster pendants one end?
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