Why Pendant Lighting Can Work Wonders For Your Home

Sometimes it is easy to overlook pendant lighting as an effective and decorative way of lighting your home. Perhaps its because we are so used to just thinking of the three most popular indoor lighting fixtures available: the lamp, the flush-mounted ceiling fixture or the chandelier.

In fact, pendant lighting is one of the most versatile of the light fixtures. Pendant lighting can be used to provide the three main types of lighting: ambient, task, and even accent lighting and is not limited in placement options like other lighting such as table, desk, or even floor lamps.

Pendants are mounted to the ceiling, and they can be placed anywhere in the room as long as you run power to them during fixing. Normally, your home already has wiring in place for ceiling fixtures and without wiring restrictions, you can let your imagination run wild when choosing pendant fixtures for every room in your home.

If you want to give an elegant look to your kitchen, you can hang an elegant pendant with ornate glass shades, which will create plenty of ambient lighting for you. You can also try placing a kitchen pendant light above your dining area and this will provide the area additional task lighting.

Kitchen pendant lights are highly popular these days and there are some beautiful Tiffany style lamps around, bearing gorgeous, luscious images of fruit - which are used in pendant lighting fixtures for home kitchens and restaurants to create an intimate and cosy ambience. For a more compelling enhancing effect it can also be coordinated with the primary pendant fixture. The sink area would also benefit from a small overhead pendant to provide additional task lighting for dishes while also serving as accent lighting.

In the living room this type of lighting should be considered as a serious option as the primary source of ambient lighting and when a chandelier may come across as being slightly too ostentatious, the right pendant will brighten the room with great effect. In fact, a simple yet effective piece of pendant lighting can give your décor a classiness it had been lacking.

For hallways and stairways Pendant lighting fixtures work especially well as the sources of illumination. You can hang a simple ceiling fixture at the top of the stairs and though too far away, it can provide enough illumination to navigate securely. A hanging pendant can bring the source of illumination closer to the stairs and thus eliminate dark spots created by flush-mounted ceiling fittings. The other places for pendants are foyers and entrance ways. They should be used to set the tone of your décor as people first enter your house.

Pendant lights come in a variety of shapes and sizes and there are many unlimited designs to choose from. As mentioned earlier, kitchen pendant lighting is becoming increasingly popular as an effective way of creating a cosy and intimate mood in dining areas.

Lauren Tyler is a writer for LampLightWorld.com