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Design Storey's edit of the best lights for Kitchens and Dining Rooms (just as useful elsewhere in the home, too) is right here. So whatever your needs, we hope you'll find it suitably illuminating.
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- Hazelette pendant pooky
Great to bring a bit of softness to a kitchen, these bubble glass lamps also come in a wall-mounted version, and you can choose between sliver and brass arms and amber or pink shades. If you pick the ceiling version, the cable is a pleasing twisted silver fabric. Details count – and pooky is good at them.
- Bellucci Fish Light Dowsing & Reynolds
This’ll be a controversial choice for sure, but I think it’s utterly fabulous. It would be great in the dining room, if you have such a thing these days, but would also elevate the eating end of the kitchen and make a statement in a hall. Made in Italy, the brass fish measures 36cm and the light comes with a 2m long black fabric cable and ceiling rose. You can choose if you want to add this frosted bulb or source your own.
- larger spangle domed pendant pooky
This is made from neatly coiled strands of brass wire which will focus on the object below (always consider what your pendant is shining directly on to – make sure it’s more than just a bare patch of floor) as well as allowing slivers of light to escape round the sides. For bigger impact, you could buy the smaller version as well, and hang it adjacent but slightly higher.
- melville wall sconce pooky
This mercurised glass sconce will diffuse the light gently outwards. Bring a bit of luxe to the kitchen (instead of the dreaded grid of spotlights) or try them in a bedroom to create a softer effect than a pendant would bring.
- Connaught Ceiling Light Dowsing & Reynolds
A pendant that doesn’t actually hang down, so this would be good in a low-ceilinged dining room, for example. The arms also mean the light will stretch to every corner. Fix it to a dimmer switch if you can, then it works for a romantic dinner as well as a wake-up breakfast.
- Umage Jazz Lampshade Dowsing & Reynolds
So simple and so pretty, this works as a standalone piece – but also imagine a group of three hung at different heights - perhaps in a corner or on a landing. Super-cool.
- Gold Palm Pendant Cox & Cox
Palm tree lights have rather taken over in recent years (I bought mine about six years ago) but this is a pretty pendant that will cast an interesting shadow – and don’t forget the cardinal rule with a pendant light is that it must look as good off as on. Think of it as the earring to go with an outfit, and you can see why sculptural is good. The metallic finish on this one will catch the light and bounce it about in a dark room. I chose it because the leaves are well designed and the proportions are right (I saw another somewhere which had so many leaves it looked like tinsel). If you want a palm tree pendant, this is the one.
- Round diffused wall light H&M HOME
More for ambient light than actual threading of needles, this will work nicely in conjunction with table and floor lamps. But, crucially, it will also look really pretty when turned off, so it won’t fight with any pictures you have hanging on the wall.
- Pico matt black pendant/wall light Lights & Lamps
Hang this to drop down from the ceiling, or fix it to the wall where it won't take up much room but will gently illuminate the space. This is a great multi-tasker for small bedrooms as well as over kitchen islands and in sitting rooms.
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- Ridotti matt black raffia pendant Lights & Lamps
If you've chosen to have pendants over the table rather than the island, this minimal raffia design is perfect and won’t clutter the space. The open shade means it gives good illumination, too. Add either a frosted or a clear glass bulb.
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