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.
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 entirety of the room. (See Hinkley's Clarke right.) |
Stinson by Hinkley Lighting
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Clarke 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.
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.
Capri Pendants by Thomas O'Brien/Generation
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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 Sea Gull's Industrial Modern Pratt Street (see above). Modern lighting also comes in different looks, like the Nuance collection by Kelly Wearstler. The Argo pendant by Hinkley Lighting provides task lighting for the bench top below. Put this pendant on a dimmer switch and they will provide both ambient and accent lighting for your kitchen in a minimal design. |
Amelia by Hinkley Lighting
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Harrow by Feiss Lighting
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Cabot by Fredrick Ramond
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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. Maybe a style like Hinkley's Casa above that matches an aesthetic. |
Argo 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. There are even full glass E12 LED lamps in different brightness choices and shapes. 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. TLC will help select the best option for your requirements.
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Going Contemporary?
American lighting designers are redefining modern with LED pendants. Hinkley Lighting's Ludlow collection cleverly blends a penchant for industrial features with inspiration drawn from Palladian architecture. Designed around the light source, Ludlow plays with the simple geometry of circles and squares for an ultra-stylish composition. Ludlow is part of the Lisa McDennon Collection. (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. Somerset pendants from Hinkley (right). |
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Feiss Angelo is Influenced by both rustic and industrial design, celebrating imperfection.
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Hinkley's Fletcher collection gives chic vibe and transcends style boundaries.
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Hinkley's Vance pendant's A-line silhouette achieves both timeless and on-trend illumination!
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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 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 thick glass and metal finishes in a variety of combinations and finishes.
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Generation Lighting's Capri collection.
A pair of larger pendants over a bench top is trending. Thomas O'Brien's Capri is just one style. |
Cadence pendants from Hubbardton Forge... gentle curves of steel surround an oval orb (your choice of glass and finish).
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Hinkley's Cartwright and Euclid
Our tremendous selection allows you to mix and match your kitchen and adjoining room lighting. |
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 Quinton is beauty on a grand scale with its smooth silhouette and simple design. This bulb is shaped by highly skilled Polish artisan.
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Hinkley Lighting's Monroe is a unique hexagonal cage offering refined and cultured presence. Suede straps add a bohemian coolness to the mix.
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