Lighting is one of the most powerful tools in Interior Design.

Lighting has the power to determine the mood and vibe of a space. It can make you feel calm, comforted, alert and even anxious or distressed. Lighting can also be used instead of walls or dividers to define spaces.

My favourite type of light fixtures (or luminaire) are pendants. Because pendants are lower to the ground and often at eye level they can become stand our features within your home.

I guess the most common way to use pendent lighting is above a dining room table, like I have done using the replica Poul Henningsen PH5 in our dining room (bottom RHS pic). The rule of thumb when hanging a pendant above a table is to position it so the bottom of the luminaire is 150cm from the floor.

You don’t need to centre your pendent either, they can look amazing positioned off to the side or over a specific element that you want to highlight (top RHS pic).

There are so many more exciting ways to use pendants though! They can be hung at different heights; positioned above a bed; or select a variety of different pendants and group them together, like they have done in the top LHS pic.