If you don’t have an eye-swooning dining pendant or chandelier over your dining room table, you are missing out on a big design opportunity!
When it’s time to choose an overhead light, we get so excited because it’s frankly our favorite part of designing the dining room. Why? Because it MAKES the dining room. Not that all the other furnishings aren’t super important – they are! – BUT the dining light adds the special sauce or the WOW factor. Think of it as the icing on the otherwise delicious cake.
Here are some we are swooning over that span many design styles from modern to traditional to even whimsical….
PH 5 Pendant Light in green; (3)
Tilda Chandelier in white; (4) Paloma 4-Light Orb Chandelier; (5) Coco Chandelier (inquire thru us); (6) Reynolds 6-Light Mirrored Chandelier; (7) Viaggio Chandelier; (8) Biscayne Chandelier; (9) Corvina Unlacquered Polished Brass Chandelier; (10) Lamina Polished Brass Pendant Light; (11) Sanibel Chandelier; (12) Voliere Pendant (trying to find a project for this one because we are crushing on it big time!)
Before buying your wow-worthy dining room chandelier or pendant light, there are some practical tips that are critical to achieving maximum impact.
- The bottom of your light fixture should be at least 30″-36″ above the tabletop so that everyone can see each other and no one’s vision is blocked. Most importantly, there is less risk of you or your guests bumping their heads on the fixture.
- A dining room will look awkward if your light fixture is centered in the room rather than centered over the table. Think of your dining table as the focal point and your pendant or chandelier as the spotlight.
- If you are choosing a chandelier it should be about half the width of your dining table or more. Don’t be afraid of going big because it adds a lot of wow impact. There’s also a formula if you want to get really mathematical where you add the room’s length and width in feet and that number in inches suggests an approximate size for the diameter of your chandelier. So, if you have a 10′ x 14′ room your chandelier should be about 24″ in diameter or more. Again, err on the side of big because if the chandelier is too small, it will ruin the dining room.
Have fun with this! You will be amazed at how impactful a wow-worthy pendant or chandelier can be in transforming your dining room.