Modern pendant lights are stunning fixtures fitting for any room of the home. Since these lights come in so many diverse styles, finishes, sizes, and designs, they can accent cozy farmhouse homes, modern lofts, rustic cabins, and other unique spaces. Since these lights carry so much potential, we have created a guide to using modern pendant lights in your home. Continue onward for 25 modern pendant light ideas, tips, tricks, and inspiration photos.
Contemporary spaces are often defined by abstract artwork, bold colors, and plenty of details. While there are plenty of artistic lighting fixtures that can suit contemporary spaces, there are also more subdued modern lights that can act as more subtle, secondary accents in the room's grand scheme.
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Corporate spaces absolutely deserve an upgrade. Including a central lighting fixture above your conference table can provide necessary illumination along with inspiring design. In addition to that, your room's design and lighting fixtures can convey the company's unique style and represent the company's persona to investors and anyone else who enjoys the room.
Today's homes often use neutral colors for the room's walls, furniture, and key accents. Your pendant lights can fit into that mold or defy expectations by introducing a new color to the room. It may be subtle, but it can dramatically change the room's overarching tone.
This kitchen is dominated by cool colors and tones. While dark pendant lights would have perfectly suited the space, this room intentionally adds a warmer brass pendant lights to contrast the room's other tones. That simple decision can make a kitchen feel more approachable and homey, even if the color palette uses a lot of grey and dark tones.
From a practical standpoint, it makes sense to include cone pendant lights above a kitchen island. This direct downlighting can illuminate your island's entire surface and create plenty of practical task lighting. From a style standpoint, these lights can also create great ambiance for the rest of the room and cast a subtle light on a nearby gallery wall.
Monochromatic black and white color schemes are incredibly popular in today's homes. This kitchen masterfully displays that color palette with glossy white cabinets, warm white marble, and minimal black accents. Black dome pendant lights perfectly round out this kitchen, and they may do the same in your white kitchen.
Texture doesn't just come through in soft fabrics and plush surfaces; texture can also be conveyed in finishes and detailing in any element of the room. This is especially true of pendant lights, which can feature a unique aged finish like the one shown here or display texture in another stylish way.
It can be difficult to decorate and design open concept spaces, since you need to set each space apart and yet have a unified design. Using a pendant light to establish one distinct area is a fantastic way to set that area apart, and the style of the light can complement other areas as well.
Large kitchen islands and dining room tables can easily be accented with more sprawling pendant lights. While you may elect to choose a pendant light with large light rods and great brightness, you can also follow this room's example and choose a large fixture will smaller bulbs. The dramatic impact will be incredible in defining the room's tone and style.
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Candelabras are incredibly versatile lighting fixtures that can accent just about any space. This elegant rustic living room features two candelabra with elegant detailing and a rustic spherical cage. No matter what style you fall into, you can find a candelabra that conveys an air of elegance and your personal aesthetic.
Sage is a popular color in a variety of styles. Like this kitchen, you may lean into a modern farmhouse aesthetic. In that case, sage green pendant lights can add in a beloved color from nature and brighten your kitchen's scheme. These lights would also complement transitional, boho, modern, and even vintage spaces.
Singular pendant lights can easily be paired with other hanging lights of the same style. In the case of this dining room, multiple pendant lights are staggered to create a sculptural accent above the dining room table. Should you take this approach with your own pendant lighting, you can create a central piece that is completely unique to your home.
Pendant lights with sprawling arms are ideally suited for illuminating larger spaces. Along with their long branching arms, these lights present another bonus: flexibility. In fact, the arms typically can be maneuvered to convey a different aesthetic, cast light over a different area, and take up a different amount of space.
While pendant lights are popular in living rooms, dining rooms, and kitchens, they are wonderful additions to bathrooms as well. Your bathroom's pendant light can be centered above your tub to create a luxurious spa, highlight your vanity, or be a central light in the room. The possibilities with bathroom pendant lights are endless.
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One trend that is rising in popularity is to stylize your room's ceiling. Your ceiling lights will vary depending on which avenue you take with ceiling design. As this room shows, there is great potential in pairing a highly unique, detailed ceiling with beautiful pendant lights.
Pendant lights may feature multiple finishes in the light's design. In the case of these pendant lights, the outer rim is black while the interior features a warm metallic finish. The combination of such starkly different colors/finishes is great for creating a dynamic, multi-faceted kitchen.
Modern farmhouse kitchens often use three primary colors: black, white, and warm wood tones. This space perfectly shows off that style, and the pendant lights above the peninsula are perfect accents to round out the room's design. Consider how you can use pendant lights to convey a modern farmhouse style in your home.
Pendant lights are available in many different designs, shapes, and sizes. This gives you the freedom to customize your home and choose a pendant light that balances with your furniture. A singular linear pendant light can accent many spaces, but these lights are especially well suited for dining rooms like this.
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When using pendant lights over a kitchen island, it is common practice to line up the lights with seats. Like this room, you may choose to use three small pendant lights directly in line with three chairs. This simple symmetry can help define your kitchen's tone as neat and tidy.
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This kitchen pendant light is stunning on its own even with the lights off. With the lights turned on however, there is a new element shown in how the light bounces through the fixture, how it interacts with the nearby room, and how shadows are cast. Regardless of what lighting fixture you choose, consider all the artistic potential it has through the fixture itself and how it casts light.
Oftentimes, the dining room's primary light mimics the shape of the table. While that is not always the case, it can be effective to choose a light that highlights a similar shape to the dining room table. As this room shows, a round pendant light is very complementary towards the oval table, since they each feature soft rounded shapes.
Pendant lights are often centered above the kitchen island, but that is far from the only acceptable layout. This kitchen shows just how stunning a light can look when it is placed over one half of the island. By centering the light with the main serving area, you define that space as something special and naturally create a point of visual interest.
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The popular mid century style from the 1950's and 60's has returned with a new spin. The Abeo Pendant Light shown here masterfully blends mid century finishes and artistic design with sleek modern design. If you enjoy both modern and retro styles, then mid century modern pendant lights may be the perfect accent for you.
Modern pendant lights are wonderful accents that can be used in any room of the home. Whether you are decorating a living room, dining room, kitchen, home office, bathroom, or some other unique space, you can easily use a singular pendant light or multiple lights to create your ideal design. With the 25 modern pendant light ideas detailed above, you can now customize your home and express your unique aesthetic.
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