Pendant lighting provides your home with decorative, ambient, and task lighting in any room. A single pendant light may seem simple, but these lights come in various styles, shapes, and colors to choose from.
Pendant lights hang down from the ceiling to illuminate areas of your home, such as kitchen islands, reading nooks, foyer, or bathroom counters. You can install a single pendant light alone or hang multiple pendant lights together to add light to your room and create a design statement.
Many pendant lights are available, allowing you to choose one that fits your home’s decor, style, and overall design. These lights are perfect for generating ambient and task lighting to a room and are commonly installed over kitchen islands and bars. Before shopping for a pendant light, you must ask yourself many questions to help narrow your search and find the hanging pendant light that works best for you.
Here are some questions to ask before buying a pendant light:
Different pendant lights have various unique features, which help them look more beautiful and provide differing functions. Knowing the key features, you want your pendant lights to have can help you streamline your search and find the best lamp for your household lighting needs.
Some pendant lights come with an installation pole that can easily be adjusted to different heights. Thus, the light can be raised and lowered whenever you like or need to change them. This feature is perfect for when hanging multiple pendant lights together and wanting to stagger their heights.
Some rooms have vaulted ceilings with slopes, which can make it challenging to have a ceiling light. Some pendant light installation kits come with (or you can purchase them separately) materials to attach your light to a sloped ceiling.
Some pendant lights come with dimmer options, making it possible to adjust the brightness of the lights. This adjustment can be completed using a dimmer wall switch or remote control. Dimmer switches are perfect when wanting to have the capability to adjust between task lighting and ambient lighting.
Pendant lights are perfect for any room of the home, including bathrooms, bedrooms, dining rooms, hallways, kitchens, game rooms, or foyer. There are many types of pendant lamps available, giving you plenty of options to choose from.
Mini pendant lights work well alone and in a group for the task and accent lighting. In addition, some mini pendant lights are compatible with track lighting systems and can be mixed in to create a blend of task, accent, and ambient lighting.
Island pendant lights are a cluster of two or three lights hanging from a single fixture. These lights can create task lighting over a kitchen island, above a desk, or a pool table.
Like island pendant lights, multi-light pendant lights have many lights hanging down from the same fixture. These light fixtures can have as little as three or up to ten lights hanging from the same base fixture. Multi-light pendant lights also make an excellent replacement for chandeliers.
The fabric shade added to a pendant light can create a luxurious look to traditional hanging pendant lights. These lights are commonly used for ambient lighting in foyers, living rooms, kitchens, or bedrooms and make a fun, unique substitute for chandeliers over dining and breakfast tables.
Inverted pendant lights are the perfect hanging light to create ambient lighting in a room. The shade for these lights hangs to project the light up toward the ceiling, creating a soft glow. These lights are commonly used in a dining room, breakfast nook, or entryway.
When shopping for pendant lighting, there are many things to consider, including the look, size, design, and location. Know as much as possible about what you are looking for before you start shopping. Knowing what you want before shopping can help you narrow down your choices and help you choose pendant lightning quickly.
Pendant lights come in many design styles, including the popular retro pendant lighting or the more common option, silver pendant lighting. Many of the styles work well with other decor elements and can even be used as statement pieces in your home. So be creative and select the pendant light that puts a smile on your face and makes your heart happy.
Know exactly where you plan to hang your pendant light. Knowing this can help you determine the style of lamp you purchase and help you choose the kind of pendant light to buy. Knowing where you plan to hang the light also enables you to determine if you need a single pendant light or multiple pendant lights.
The material your pendant light is constructed from is greatly determined by your style and desired look for the light within a room. For industrial designs, select lamps with a brushed metal; for classic looks, select a white pendant light; and for retro designs, look for a brightly colored light.
Shopping for pendant lighting is a great way to add unique lighting to your home. With so many things to consider when shopping for the perfect pendant light, try checking out our catalog first to see if you like anything there. Our catalog can help you narrow your choices down and find exactly what you are looking for.
LuxeDecor gives you the opportunity to show off your unique sense of style with our extensive selection of fashion-forward industrial pendant lighting, glass pendant lights, and pendants of all varieties by today’s leading lighting brands including Allegri, Bruck lighting, Artcraft Pendant Lighting, Progress Lighting, Troy Lighting, Arteriors lighting, Pewter Mini Pendant Lighting, Hubbardton Forge pendant lighting among many others.
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