Hello, and glad you made your way here to Shakhammer! I’m Susan, a Certified Kitchen Designer, you can find me at my blog, here,  and at my main website, here. and I’ll be blogging about kitchen related information, tips, resources, and other good stuff, here at Shakadoo. Are you ready? Here we go.

I was looking around the blogs and found this post at apartment therapy and I quickly saw the light fixture, which is the same exact one I just had installed at a client’s home, in her kitchen. We used two of them over the peninsula in the silver color. Design*Sponge has featured this light too.

When I saw the hanging cord, (see how it’s loose in the named blog images) I said to myself, "that’s what she (my client) meant when she told me the cord wasn’t loose! The electrician pulled it totally taught, the cord as well as the wire it hangs from. Of course, the fear of whatever went through me as I thought (is there slack in the wire in the ceiling?) to which the electrician answered "I’m known for leaving plenty of slack!" Okaaaaaaay. So, all’s well that ends well for me. The lesson here is: watch your electrician and give him instructions FIRST for very high end lighting, as oftentimes, part of the look is a working part made to be emphasized in a decorative way. 

I may make mention of one more thing. I think if I had to do it over again, I would lower the lights by about 2". In this case, the client wanted ample room to see below the lights. There is a particular "look" to lower hanging pendant lights, something warm and  intimate/romantic about it, I’m not sure what, but I like them hung  lower than normal. Experiment, and you’ll get a whole different look. Maybe intimate vs. functional, yes, that’s it!