How to avoid choosing the wrong pendant light for the home

It seems to be easy to find a beautiful pendant light for the interior. However, there are more than thousand types of design for us to choose. The point is how can we find the appropriate hanging light for our place. We have figure the best 3 easy solutions to start with.

1.   Feeling

It is easy for someone to be inspired by the setting of the shop to induce the buyers to make a decision at the point of sale. However, as interior designers, we always recommend to do some research of overall interior you appeal. It will bring your focus for certain style that blends everything together.

You may find it on the internet for any reference that match your appreciation. Sometimes you can research from bloggers, interior magazine, friends, designers , or stylist specialist .

Try to summarise everything on a board. It helps you to focus on the overall design of your space.

2.   Location and position

Once we discover the style of your interior, it is easy to finalise the lighting for each room. The second step starts from the location of the room and room’s dimension. It significantly affects lamp’s size and lamp’s type.

It is necessary to measure your room size; the height, width, and length. Please draft it on a piece of paper as much as you can because you can use the sketch to find appropriate furniture as well.

For example; dining room is the exceptional area where you need to install the lamp at the center of the table not the center of the room. While the kitchen pendant light should be hung above the island counter.

3.   Lamp size

The proportion of the hanging light should be proportionated with the room’s size. For easy estimation, you may consider to find any lamp that has 1/10 of your room’s size.

From the above criteria, you will at least visual the overall perspective of your interior before design any pendant light to hang in you space. We assure that this will not lead you to an unexpected interior that you may suffer in the future.