The most popular lamps for lighting kitchen islands are pendant lights. Accordingly, the selection of high-quality hanging lamps is large, with which you can provide optimal zone light for cooking and baking. In addition, you can find ceiling lights and get spotlights, some for recessed installation. You can also illuminate cooking islands and countertops with various wall lights as well as LED strips.
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The kitchen island is often the functional as well as visual center of the kitchen. With its usually generous work surface and often also a cooktop, it offers enough space for cooking together with family or friends. For optimal visibility at any time of day, you should illuminate the kitchen island with zone lighting that falls directly on the work surface. To make the prepared food appear as natural as possible in the light, it is best to use kitchen lamps with a high color rendering index.
For the illumination of the cooking island and countertops, various types of lamps come into question. A popular solution here are pendant lights. But you can also use ceiling lamps, spotlights and other luminaires to provide good light above your kitchen island. If, on the other hand, you want to illuminate your kitchen counter, special counter lighting is a good choice.
In our online store you will find many different designer lights, whether with LEDs, in modern designs or trendy colors: With us, you can expect a wide selection of lights for the kitchen island, including height-adjustable lamps for high flexibility in lighting your kitchen island.
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Different types of lamps
Lighting trends for kitchen islands and countertops
In our shop you can find modern lamps for the kitchen island as well as models with efficient LED bulbs. Are you looking for black designer lamps? Then you will also discover suitable products with us. If you attach great importance to high flexibility in the lighting of your kitchen island and countertops, we recommend height-adjustable lamps.
Luminaires for kitchen counters and countertops
Do you prefer to illuminate your counter in the kitchen instead of your kitchen island? Then we recommend special counter lighting. The designs of these lights are designed for the kitchen counters, which are usually much narrower. On the one hand, this looks better visually, and on the other hand, it prevents you from bumping your head against luminaires that are too wide.
Since, unlike the cooking island, you primarily use the counter or countertop to relax when you wind down the evening with a glass of wine, the focus of the lighting is on coziness. Therefore, go for cozy warm white light that can be dimmed for a particularly atmospheric ambience. Also make sure that the color rendering is high so that the food and drinks appear natural and thus appetizing in the light.
Frequently asked questions to our lighting experts
Our store manager gladly answers frequently asked questions on the subject of kitchen island and countertop lighting.
Anja Schuh
How high should a pendant light hang above the kitchen island?
When you install a pendant light above your kitchen island, it should hang high enough so that you don't bump into it while cooking. We recommend a distance of about 80 to 100 cm between the countertop and the bottom edge of the light fixture.
In addition to height, positioning is also important. The pendant luminaire should be placed as centrally as possible above the cooking island, but always in such a way that you do not bump into the lamp when handling pots and pans or leaning over the worktop. Ideally, the light should fall on the kitchen island from an angle above. This way, you won't take the light away from yourself while cooking.
Last but not least, go for pendant lights with sturdy materials if you're installing them above a cooktop. This way, the kitchen pendant lights will be impervious to fumes or avoidable grease splatters.
How do I light a kitchen without wall cabinets?
If there are no wall cabinets in your kitchen, this can be a great advantage for lighting: That's because it gives you the option of installing ceiling, pendant and wall lights centrally above the countertop. For even lighting, we recommend one luminaire per 1.5 - 2 m² of work surface. In any case, it is important that the zone light falls on the work surface in the kitchen without glare or shadows.
With pendant lights, as described above, make sure they are the right height so you don't bump your head while cooking. Also, if you're mounting the lamp above a countertop without wall cabinets, refrain from adding hooks, magnetic strips or anything similar to the wall behind it. In general, we advise you to go for narrow kitchen hanging lamps with a small diameter.
How do I light a kitchen island with an exhaust hood?
Since a cooker hood usually provides light itself, good lighting above the hob is already provided. For the rest of the kitchen island lighting, rely on other light sources that you can install next to the cooker hood, for example. For this purpose, under-cabinet luminaires are just as suitable as recessed spotlights. If no wall units are installed next to the cooker hood, pendant or wall luminaires are also suitable.
Whichever luminaires you choose: Make sure the kitchen lamps are evenly distributed and provide enough bright light for cutting, frying, garnishing and the like.