This New Lighting Trend Might Make You Ditch Last Year's Edison Bulb

Monochrome lighting is a sleek way to add high contrast to a kitchen space. This chic black-and-white stunner shines bright with a whole new riff on (kitchen) island life: It doubles as a dining table chandelier.

In designing the perfect all-white kitchen space, lighting is sometimes the obvious choice to introduce a different colour or finish into the mix in a small way. This kitchen presents a fresh new twist on the almost-all-white trend, with a wood island that paves the way for white pendant lights to enhance the room’s bright-white appeal.

Sleek, high-shine lighting illuminates a dark, masculine kitchen design. No matter which metal suits your fancy, from copper to gold to silver to chrome, a shiny finish adds wow factor. How’s that for putting a little sashay in your sauté?

If you’re like me, you might play the sous chef in the relationship (let’s be honest: I pour the wine). For kitchens where it’s a priority to keep the cook company, it makes things all the more fun to replace the idea of a kitchen island with a full-on farm table. And what pairs perfectly with a farm table (besides wine, of course)? A grand chandelier.

Brass-and-gold lighting adds warmth to the kitchen, making the space all the more inviting for guests, taste testers, and anyone else looking to join the chef in his or her wheelhouse. We love the mix of warm tones in natural wood and tobacco leather to enhance the golden hues of these brassy pendant lights.

For a kitchen already filled with clean, modern lines, selecting the perfect pendant lights elevates the space even more. To add subtle variation in surface texture, play off marble countertops with a matte finish.

You can’t go wrong with gorgeous globes to brighten up the heart of the home. In an open-concept kitchen, the combination of simple white globes with gold chains creates a classic appeal.

Love to feel minty fresh? Try giving your kitchen a little bit of tinted love with pastel pendant lights. Softer shades can be just the right amount of subtle colour to mix into a bright-white or neutral kitchen space.

There’s something downright sexy about a shiny brass chandelier with a balance of geometric lines and spheres. Against a more minimal, modern design, this multi-arm version adds a glam touch to a dreamy kitchen island.

Don’t be afraid to embrace the unexpected for kitchen lighting that truly sparkles. Break out the bubbly with pendants and chandeliers that feature clustered orbs to give the appearance of effervescence. 

One way to make a more impactful kitchen lighting moment is to size up. A large white pendant light is both simple and bold, and it’s the perfect choice to lighten up a kitchen filled with levels of texture and saturated colour. 

To build a little bit of extra style into a kitchen space, try mixing and matching eclectic light fixtures like an antique pendant light paired with modern sconces. This kitchen is proof that bright ideas come in all shapes and sizes.

Our favourite new kitchen lighting ideas take a more complementary approach to mixing old and new, sleek and textural ingredients. The combination of modern cabinets with twisted rope pendant lights is perfect for sipping, snacking, entertaining, or all of the above.

Which of these bright ideas would you like to see in your kitchen?

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