Make balloons the size of your pendants, hang them over the island (or island to be), and do the visual test... pleases your eye.

The island is not installed yet in my house. Electrician has to run the wires before cabinets and island will be installed, unfortunately. :(

Yes, I had to do that too. Tape the island size on the sub floors or build one from cardboard...this will bug you if you get it wrong. Or just go with what you were reading as a recommendation. Good luck! Make sure that you have plenty of aisle width planned, the island electrical won't let you push the cabinets a few inches either way.

Thanks. Might have to do the balloon trick. Never heard of it. :)

Yes. Thanks. We will have 4’ clearance around all sides of the island.

Trust your eye! End result will be beautiful :)

Make sure that they are hung around 30-40" off the countertop. For your horizontal spacing, you can go down to 6" from the edge of the countertop if that ends up looking best.

I suggest do a mock up with pencil and paper to scale to see what it may look like, and do different configurations. Also, find out what suggestion your contractor has too.

I first laid out my island size with tape on the floor and used parchment paper cut in rounds to the size of the fixture to get an idea of spacing. I made a whole diagram to give to the electrician. I don't know if he understood it but the spacing turned out well.

Divide the counter into three sections

3ft sections divide that into 2 so 1.5 center on each box

so center is 4.5 feet in, then put one 3ft to the left, and one 3ft to the right of center.

@kculbers my contractor doesn’t want to give ”design” advice as he’s not a designer. I get it and I’m ok with it as he gives advice about technical stuff, rather than design advice.

@vinmarks This is excellent advice. never thought of actually doing the layout on the floor. I will do that in my living room tonight as my contractor gave me an extra day to make a decision. very helpful advice. thanks.

@RL Relocation LLC Thank you for the formula to calculate. this makes perfect sense. Looks like my thought on 18” from the edge/sides are good. i will do the layout in my living room tonight with your dimensions and will see what it looks like.