Lighting Around Your Dining Table
The right lighting is absolutely critical in the dining room – probably more so than in any other room in the house – because the light is how you create an atmosphere.
How to achieve the best effect? Here are some practical tips and ideas for lighting your dining room….
Base your lighting design around the dining table, rather than the room as a whole (as you might in the living room, say). That usually means either a chandelier, a pendant, or a series of pendants, hanging relatively low: typically, the bottom of the light fixture should be around 36 inches above the table.
But what if you don’t have a provision for a ceiling pendant light!
Then the Curve Floor Lamp is your immediate help. Consider the below image…
Layer light with table lamps and wall lights
There will be times when you don’t want a glaring light, but then again a single light source will be too intimate… The solution to all these tricky problems is layered lighting.
Having multiple light sources gives you options: so give yourself a choice of moods with a few other lamps around the place. How about a table lamp on a sideboard, or a couple of wall lights to match your pendant?
