How do we choose the modernisation pendels and polilles?

Modern lighting offers countless opportunities to personalize your home. Thanks to modern technology, today we have the opportunity to furnish our rooms with different size, shape and size lighting fixtures. The models come in different colours, prints, made of different materials and have different advantages. For example, some models of chandeliers can be controlled what amount of light to emit, can change the colour of the light and can even have a flash drive with music attached to them. The vast choice is a wonderful thing until we really have to choose what to furnish our home with. We've decided to help you out with a quick guide to which chandeliers and pendants are fashionable and how to choose the right one for your space.

Long gone are the days when a lamp in the centre of the ceiling was all we needed. Nowadays, hanging lighting can be designed to suit the aesthetic and practical needs of your space. Ultimately, it's important that each design makes a statement.

Of course, as with any aspect of interior design, there are both positives and negatives to using hanging lighting. The key is to decide which is the best option for your space.

What are the advantages of pendants and chandeliers?

Aesthetically speaking, modern pendant lighting can be designed to fully fill a ceiling space. It should also match the rest of the lights in the room, whether they are candelabras, lanterns or table lamps. The biggest benefit to you when you decide you want to furnish with a pendant is the wide variety and customizable patterns. This is the only way you can give your rooms the lighting they deserve. After all, lighting fixtures are used to fill a room, not just to illuminate it.

Pendants and chandeliers can be customized in a huge number of ways, including height, hanging, and placement. They can be used to highlight accent points in a room, to provide illumination to specific areas such as desks or dining tables.

Hanging lighting is softer than a spotlight and is able to provide a more homely or cosy feel to a room, whilst maintaining a practical level of illumination.

In terms of practicality, modern pendant lighting creates and maintains the feeling of wide space in a room. This is because it is suspended from the ceiling rather than taking up floor or wall space. In addition, chandeliers can diffuse light that is concentrated or diffused relative to the height at which they are hung. Hanging light sources also offer the ability to focus lighting on a specific area without the need for multiple lamps.

One of the biggest advantages of pendant luminaires is the freedom they provide when it comes to choosing a position and design based on what you want to achieve and the type of style you're aiming for. Offering so much more in terms of aesthetics and practicality than single lamps, pendant designs can be intuitive, discreet or eye-catching. It's also perfectly possible to use a single chandelier as a bespoke solution to highlight part of a room, while saving space. 

What are the disadvantages?

Like any type of lighting, hanging has its drawbacks. There are not a few places where it is not advisable or aesthetically pleasing to place a pendant or large chandelier. Furthermore, the concept of this form of lighting can be perceived as old-fashioned if one does not possess the imagination to modernize and design lighting solutions that are aesthetically pleasing.

Modern pendant lighting can be imposing or distracting in a small space. If incorrect color temperatures are used, it would mean that the light would be harsh and ineffective. However, all these drawbacks can be overlooked if ingenuity is put into the design and sense of space.

Hanging luminaires are static and cannot be moved. The only thing you can affect once you have installed a chandelier is the space underneath it, meaning you can rearrange it to make it more functional. Another factor to consider is the actual physical mounting of the hanging fixture. This can be tricky, especially if you are placing lights at different heights. To get the maximum effect from large pendants and chandeliers, you need to measure the space carefully.