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LightingDesign DilemmaKitchens
ella210

Kitchen Lighting Height

2 years ago

Hello!

I'm choosing lighting for my kitchen and hope you can help me with a design dilemma. I love these lights and want to use them over my island. The island is 8.5' x 4.5' and I'm leaning towards using two pendants. My counters are 36" and the ceiling is 8'10". If I hang the lights with the minimum drop of 41" they will be 29" above my island. Is that too low?


Vaughan Coleton

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