How To Design A Perfect Overhead Kitchen Island Lighting

How To Design A Perfect Overhead Kitchen Island Lighting

Kitchen island is always an advantage in a kitchen. Over the island, every house-owner used to perform almost all the works. Therefore, a proper lighting is always essential for the island area for the clear visibility. A perfect design of kitchen island lighting not only brightens the island itself, it gives a complete spacey look to the entire kitchen and proves your aesthetic sense. But it is to know that a kitchen island does not mean of hanging some pendants or other lights overhead. It needs a planning of divisional lighting at that area depending on the need and the placement of its focal point.

The most essential factors I want to inform you on overhead kitchen island lighting design are:

Overall brightness to the entire workspace:

To work comfortably inside the kitchen, you never tolerate any cluttering at the island area. Overhead hanging of light needs a perfect altitude to avoid unwanted knocking and bumping on working. You should hang them in a distance from the ceiling so that it can spread the light upon more area and at the same time well above your head. One more problem is familiar to this overhead lighting is the cast of unwanted shadow.To avoid it, you have to install a mix of different style of lighting. A normal chandelier is not enough for the lighting of the entire surface and sometimes it may produce shadow.

A good overall lighting can be done by recessed ceiling lighting. These lights are installed on the ceiling by cutting holes on it. If you don't want to cut holes, flush mount ceiling lighting may be a good alternative. Remember, you must make a layout before installing those lights according to the arrangement of kitchen accessories. Placement and keeping space between the lights on the ceiling makes the look comfortable, otherwise, your ceiling may appear like an airport runway. In the enclosed snap I have shown a perfect instance of mix of hanging and recessed lighting that has balanced the overall visibility over the island.

On the other hand, track lighting, according to me is the best solution for the ceiling. The flexible track lighting is placed in tracks and the lamps used in it are available with swiveling base and neck. These swivels are highly effective to direct your light to the region you need to highlight. It is customizable whenever and whatever required. The tracks used in it are bendable and so you can manage it, as you like. However, the snap beside is an example of a planned mixture of separate light fixtures for the overhead that can make your overhead ceiling lighting design most effective.

Aesthetic value:

As the overall illumination is most important for the kitchen island light, you have to put some additional lighting over the island, to add some better ambience. There are several pendants those are highly attractive and create a true psychological impact over the ceiling.

Look at the picture, and you can feel the mood over the island on using the Tiffany pendants with a kaleidoscopic ambience created there. The only thing is to keep in your mind is that whatever of designs the pendants you will choose; it must be perfectly matched with your kitchen theme.

Kriss Randler is a freelance writer on modern kitchen interiors and lighting. Anyone may visit his site www.bestkitchenlighting.org dedicated to all the house makers of the world.