Yes forget the pendant light and put in an LED can light

Yep, what cp said. You need can lights.

The cans will help with enough light for the work surfaces. I'd drop the pendants also. I would not have used them anyway with your ceiling height.

You could use that cabinet for display--if it's part of a two-door cabinet, just don't open it (or let it be opened).

How bad would it look, really, to move the pendants? got a floor plan?

Switch it up - make that cabinet "open shelving" and forget worrying about the door. Use the glass door elsewhere.

Can light or open shelving.

Can light. The pendant will accentuate the low ceiling height.

who uses pendants in the middle of the room with a 7ft ceiling?

Why would you put a pedant light there in the first place? I'm confused ...this is not the peninsula you are referring to ... hang the pendants over the peninsula. Can you show a picture of the peninsula?

I'm with the can light crowd. It seems super awkward where they are and makes the ceiling seem even lower.

Pendants don't belong in front of cabinets, for the very reason you discovered! You need a can light there. Ditch the pendant light.

1. Fori, Hanna, thanks, yes that is what I'm contemplating now. I might just leave the door as is and put rarely used things in there, or just remove the door completely if I can't find a suitable hinge.

2. MaWizz sorry, the photo is not clear. The hole with the bulb is not where the pendant light will be, that is where an old light used to be (which I got rid of). The pendants will be above the peninsula.

3. My ceiling is not particularly low, it is approx. 250cm which I believe is fairly standard.

4. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and I appreciate the input, but getting rid of the pendant lights is not a solution I'm interested in, even if it might make more sense to you. I am also going to have recessed spotlights, the pendants are mainly for decorative purposes.

We warn people about marble countertops etching all the time, they don't believe us, they're in love, not interested in hearing what they don't want to hear, they buy it, it etches, they complain, we say we-told-you-so. Same thing here.

Pull back and give us a picture with more perspective.

250cm is 8 feet 2 and a half inches. Those cabinets are mounted right up against the ceiling. If your counters are at 36" you must have an enormous space maybe 30-36 inches between the countertop and those cabs. I find that hard to believe - - but if true drop the cabs to 18 inches or even 16 and a half inches above the counter. Add small cabs on top without an opening door at the end location.You can use that new space for some kind of pendant/hanging light.

Yes they are 60cm high. I will have an open shelf below them which is why they are so high up on the wall.

The track is interesting, thanks for the suggestion, I will have a look around for that.

If they're 60 cm high, that brings them to over 6' above the floor. What are you planning on storing in there? I can't see that you'll be able to reach anything.

Hm, if your ceiling is 2,50m high, then the bottoms of the cabinets are 1,90m or about 6'3" above the floor? How many rows of shelves are you putting underneath?

These look like Ikea Bodbyn cabinets. Is there a reason why you didn't get the higher uppers?

Or move them down and stack 40 cm ones on top?

I believe the OP meant that the interspace is 60cm high--would be about 18" and 6" for the floating shelf. Makes perfect sense to me.