Hanging Lights
Chandeliers, jhoomars, pendants and clusters — everything that hangs.
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Choosing hanging lights
Hanging light is the whole family: anything suspended from the ceiling on a rod, chain or cable. In practice it splits two ways. A chandelier — jhoomar — carries several lamps on one frame and is bought to be the thing you look at. A pendant carries one, and is bought to light what is underneath it. Everything else, clusters and linear bars included, is one of those two repeated.
Which one a room wants is usually settled by what is under it rather than by taste. A dining table, a kitchen island, a bedside, a reading chair — anywhere with a defined surface — takes pendants, sized and spaced to that surface. A room with no single focus, or a double-height entrance, takes a chandelier, sized to the room: add the length and width in feet and read the answer in inches.
The hang height is the same for both and is the thing most often got wrong. Over any surface you eat or work at, the bottom of the fixture sits 30 to 36 inches above it. Anywhere people walk underneath, leave at least seven feet of clearance from the floor. Get those two numbers right and almost any fixture in this range will look deliberate.
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Hanging Lights — common questions
What is the difference between a hanging light, a pendant and a chandelier?
Hanging light is the umbrella term for any ceiling-suspended fixture. A pendant is a hanging light with a single lamp and shade, used to light a specific surface. A chandelier — jhoomar — is a hanging light with several lamps on one frame, used to light and furnish a whole room. All three are on this page.
How high should a hanging light be hung?
Thirty to thirty-six inches from the tabletop or countertop to the bottom of the fixture over any surface, and at least seven feet of floor clearance anywhere people walk beneath it. Rod and cable drops are adjustable at installation, so the fitted height is set to your ceiling.
How many hanging lights do I need over a kitchen island or dining table?
Divide the length in inches by 24 to 30 and round down — a 48-inch island takes two, a 72-inch island three — keeping the end fixtures about 12 inches in from each edge. One wide pendant covers a table up to about 48 inches; past that, use a run of two or three, or a single chandelier sized to half or two-thirds of the table width.
Are hanging lights suitable for a low ceiling?
Under about nine feet, a hanging light only works where nobody walks under it — over a table, an island or a bedside. Elsewhere in a low room, a flush or semi-flush ceiling light is the right fixture instead.