How High Should You Hang Your Lights?
sharing our lighting scale formula for kitchens and dining rooms
After sourcing lights for homes over the last 12 years, I’ve found a formula I like to follow for the common kitchen island and dining tables size. This is one of the main reasons we created our own lighting line—to make the perfect fixture scale for specific spaces (ex. over a dining table or an 8-10 ft island). We wanted to be very intentional with our collection, so we designed a lot of these fixtures with common table and island sizes in mind.
When it comes to lighting scale and rules, there is some wiggle room between “right and wrong” depending on how you want a space to feel, but today we’re sharing some of our general placement suggestions and dimensioned drawings of each of our light fixtures in the spaces we designed them for. With all of the elements that go into choosing a light fixture (width, height, what it’s hanging over, how hight you’re hanging it, etc.) we wanted to do some of the work for you to alleviate one more decision you will have to make.
General Guidelines
For a chandelier over a dining or kitchen table—30” to 32” above the surface of the table