“A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it’s not track lighting or a sunroom that brings light into a kitchen.” – Joyce Maynard

Stylish lighting your kitchen is about choosing a lighting scheme to make the space both beautiful and functional. You need three types of light in your kitchen: ambient, task, and accent. These types let you layer the light like you did the decor.

To pull this lighting scheme off, you’ll need to carefully choose three types of lighting fixtures and their locations throughout your kitchen. These kitchen lighting ideas will help you find the best light fixture for each of these light types in your kitchen.

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1. Galley Kitchen Lighting Ideas

If you have a galley kitchen, you have a unique challenge and opportunity on your hands. The long and narrow nature of your kitchen means that you can have a single overhead light that illuminates both sides of the kitchen. However, central lighting also means that you’ll have to deal with shadows in your workspace.

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While you do need some overhead downward-cast light that illuminates the space, you also need task lighting to illuminate the immediate area where you’ll prepare food. To create your task lighting, you could hang evenly spaced flush-mounted lights, install track lighting, or use recessed lights.

2. Flush Mount Kitchen Lighting Ideas

If the ceiling in your kitchen is low, you don’t have enough room to mount a chandelier, pendant lamp, or hanging light fixture. Trying to install one of these will only make the ceiling seem even lower, and the entire kitchen will feel cramped. What you need in this situation are flush mount lights.