Kitchen Lighting Part 2
Next up, getting the pendant lighting put up. I think that's the major element our kitchen was missing. To me it fills in the empty space between the ceiling and island and almost creates a separation of the kitchen from the family room. The pendant would be mounted where the former recessed light was. To make things a little easier, we opted to replace it with something that has one connection box with several pendants attached instead of drilling more holes to hang individual pendants. We found a pendant fixture in Lowes that would do the trick. We went with a pendant bar in nickel and blue crackled glass pendant shades. Problem is, the can light left a hole that is seven inches wide and the bar for the pendant light is only five inches wide. This bar is not going to cover that huge hole. What to do, what to do? After searching online, I found several videos where we can add a box to the gaping hole and just patch...