You don t want to be hit with blinding light every time you look across your kitchen.
Hanging pendants over kitchen island.
Hanging an odd number of pendants use the distance determined above to space your pendants evenly over your table or kitchen island starting with the first fixture.
That s a little easier obviously you want to hang one of them in the center of the island.
If lighting a short island 6 to 7 wide use two pendants that are at least 30 apart and equidistant from the center.
Depending on the style of the pendant you choose you may want to use soft glow light bulbs or else install the pendant lights on a dimmer switch.
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Install the middle fixture over the center of the table.
The exact distance apart is going to depend on your island length and size of your pendants but 30 32 apart works well for most spaces.
Two pendants can hang over a shorter island equidistant from the center.
General guidelines for spacing pendants over your island.
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To find the center take the width and divide by two and then take the length and divide by two.
Consider what s too low.
A general rule of thumb.
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Measure the width of your island and subtract by 12 to determine the max width light.
In general pendant lights over an island should hang 28 34 inches above the countertop of the island.
Most island counters are typically 36 inches from the floor.
When we are selecting and hanging pendant lights over an island there are a couple of rules of thumb that we use to make sure the lights are sized spaced and hung appropriately.
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Determine hanging height of pendants the truth is to determine the height to hang a pendant light you need to start with the measurement from the floor.
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Then space out the two on the ends so that they re at least 24 apart.