I think you mean a “vaulted” ceiling.

Can you put a chandelier in each room?

Chandeliers are usually accent lighting, i.e., they simply create a warm glow in a space. Most are unsuited for either ambient or task lighting.

Vaulted ceilings and spaces require other lighting strategies. One strategy is to ignore the ceiling, in terms of lighting, and place lighting where it works best for either tasks and/or overall ambient light levels.

Another strategy, if a lighted ceiling is important, is to place "wall washer" fixtures slightly above the ceiling-wall intersection and direction them to "flood" the ceiling with direct light.

Good advice from Virgil. I'll just add that if you are using ceiling fans, be sure that there aren't any lights, such as can lights, above them. Otherwise, when the fan(s) and light(s) are on at the same time, you'll get a strobe effect which could be unpleasant.

Just to add a bit more... Attempting to use a chandelier to provide much functional lighting requires such brightness that it takes away from the aesthetics and ambiance that the fixture is intended to create. For example, a dining room with some dim downlights so that people can see what they're eating (assuming you didn't burn it and want them to see it) and a chandelier at a comfortable low level of brightness is much more appealing than one where the chandelier is super bright in order to provide light for people to see.

For your space I would start with decorative pendents or chandeliers. Vaulted rooms often feel cold, empty and un-cozy so these can help bring the space back to human scale. As @Virgil mentioned, while these will provide some light they are primarily decorative fixtures. Next add table and floor lamps as your primary source. These are generally more pleasing aesthetically than downlights or washes. This s/b your primary day to day lighting.

For a gob of light for cleaning up after a party or when you just want things really bright then @Virgils recommendation for up washes is a good one. Last option would be downlight cans.

Are you trying to light the ceiling or the rooms below? If the rooms, then chandelier in the dining room and lamps in the living room. If you're doing new construction, then include some can lights for optional brightness if needed (like for cleaning).

I've see wall washes and other indirect lighting, as Virgil mentioned, used to good effect in rooms with vaulted ceilings.

Most chandeliers are simply accent lighting. They may provide very little overall ambient illumination. They exist to simply look pretty.

The best advice for anyone wanting a chandelier is to first design other needed lighting to get the desired lighting effects and illumination level. Then, after that, and only after than, add a chandelier as something to look at, if desired.

Hi Gloria, can you post some pictures of the area? Not pictures of the ceilings but the whole room that includes the ceilings?

would you recommend these lights? Along with chandelier positioned over table and a couple pendant lights over seated counter space. If so, how far apart would you place these?

still under construction. Building a small home, open concept with livingroom in front dining area to the back. 19' x 30'.

Yes to the ceiling lights of some type but I don't want to give you advice on something as important as that. I don't know if LED lights are the best. Maybe an architect or builder will drop by your site and give you a good answer. Go ahead and wire for the chandelier .

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I have a chandelier in my dining room and living room. The lights are very bright BUT they are on dimmers for any brightness I want. In the LR I also have two table lamps, but the chandeliers are very nice to bring the ceiling down in the LR.

We did cans for when we need really bright, which is rare, but still useful. My favorite lighting is the uplighting on the beams, plus lamps and the chandelier dimmed. We use the uplighting every evening.