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Lighting help in old home kitchen!

4 years ago

I need to pick where I want lighting in my kitchen renovation.


Overall the level of lighting is... adequate? It's complicated because the exterior walls are solid brick and I don't know how easy it will be to choose specific locations on the ceiling due to joists. There is not enough room for cans, but probably could put a recessed LED chip in the ceiling. Ceilings are fairly tall, 9'8".


Right now the lighting on the main cabinet wall are in a wood paneled soffit which is coming out entirely. The soffit on the left is going to be shortened but still stay. There will be a prep sink in the alcove with the soffit and the main sink (by window) is moving to a peninsula, and the window will get taller. I was thinking to have a pendant light in the alcove above prep sink, and either LED chips or sconces to light the cabinets on the main wall.



In this area below, a peninsula with sink and DW is going in next to the fridge. The existing pendant light will move slightly to center over it and the fan (all the way to the right) over the dining room table will be replaced but stay in same position. We could add sconces on the dining room wall as there used to be some that we took out (see white box on wall).




Where else should I add lighting and what kind? This is the overall plan (final peninsula is slightly different than shown here) so far with lighting marked in yellow circles:


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