Different Types of Pendant Lights

Everyone must have heard about the term ceiling pendants or pendant lights. Pendant lights are an extremely well known form of lighting which is available in a wide range of shapes, forms and designs catering for both functional and decorative styles. Pendant lights are common forms of lighting fixtures which are used both indoors as well as outdoors. Let us know about the three main groups of these ceiling pendants.

·        Ceiling Pendants

·        Pendant Bar Lights

·        Pendant Clusters

Ceiling Pendants

Ceiling pendants are single hanging lights suspended by a chain, a cable, a rod or any other suspension and varies with different designs and forms. These kinds of ceiling pendants look great when hung together in rows or groups and are great options for functional lighting. Ceiling pendants come in a variety of sizes, forms, shapes and colors.

Pendant Bar Lights

Pendant bar lights are multi pendant lights which are suspended or fixed to an elongated bar like structure.  Bar pendants lights are ideal to hung over bars, long tables or even kitchen islands. Like other pendants lights, these lights are also available in different styles to cater from traditional to modern settings. Most of these lights allow height adjustments and thus can be used for different ceiling heights.

Pendant Clusters

Pendant clusters are multi-grouped ceiling pendant lights which usually have a single mounting point but house a group of individual pendant lights. These lights are available in different styles. Pendant cluster lights provide a high light output and are great lighting options for dining rooms, kitchen islands, and long drop stairways.

Pendants lights serve all basic forms of lighting: task, accent, ambient and decorative. Task lightings are type of lightings which illuminates target area. Ceiling pendants also help in illuminating kitchen tasks such as chopping. Pendant lights provide ample illumination and also offer a welcoming feel to outdoor spaces. Ambient lights are lightings which illuminate the whole room instead of only targeting a spot are called ambient lighting. Pendants lights help in brightening the whole room when multiple pendant lights are spread across the area.

Accent lightings are usually used to highlight a design feature such as a beautiful material or an art piece. Pendant lights bring out the various tones of art pieces and pinpoint pendants bring out sparkle in polished metals or flecked stones. Decorative pendant lights acts as a decorative piece itself and also creates a decorative feature by the shadow or sparkle it produces.