Bowl Modern Living Room Pendant Lighting

Why We Love Living Room Bowl Pendants

Bowl pendant lighting in the living room is an optimal choice for a significant source of decorative uplighting. Bowl-shaped pendants and bowl chandeliers are an inverted style of light fixture and reflect an immense amount light on the ceiling for an attractive wash of generally warm illumination. And with these modern bowl light options, you will also be defining the style of your living room.

Bowl pendants are a widely found style of lighting in living rooms, kitchens and in some cases, dining rooms. Due to their nature of casting light upward instead of spreading it down and throughout a room, a bowl pendant is a welcomed choice of illumination for these areas. The warm touches of light from a bowl fixture offer character to your ceilings in a noticeable yet understated fashion. Available in a wide variety of sizes and finishes to meet your living room's existing decor, there's a bowl light here you'll love. And while often considered a traditional type of ceiling fixture, you'll find plenty of modern options to introduce to your home's living area too.

A Living Room Bowl Light Fixture for Every Style

Bowl lighting is reminiscent of more traditionally decorated living rooms, but you will find these designs can easily blend into modern and contemporary spaces as well. In large, open living rooms and great rooms, a couple of well-chosen bowl chandeliers provide ample and eye-catching light for the space, while also pairing well with wall sconces, portable lamps and other sources of light in the room. Glass bowl pendant lights from Kichler help to make a contemporary statement in the room, with a variety of stylish options you and your guests can't help but notice. Meanwhile, wrought-iron bowl light fixtures from Hubbardton Forge or Ultralights fit in well with traditional home decorations. Iron is a common finish for bowl pendants and makes a firm statement to your aesthetics. You'll find luxury-exuding crystal bowl light options as well, from noteworthy crystal experts like Schonbek and Boyd Lighting.

Choosing the Best Living Room Bowl Pendant

When it comes to choosing lighting for this area, especially living room ceiling lights, you'll want to pay close attention to the sizes of fixtures you are introducing to the room. While all generally the same inverted bowl shape, these pendants are offered in a variety of sizes to accommodate everything from large living rooms to more compact, urban living room areas. Before you begin your search, properly measure the area of the ceiling where the pendant will be installed. Be mindful of important sizing dimensions like height, diameter, width and hanging length (how far the bowl pendant will site from its ceiling canopy). Most bowl pendants in this assortment extend from the ceiling and work well with tall ceilings, however, you'll also find options that mount close to the ceiling for homes where the ceiling-to-floor height may be limited. With a size and shape in mind, you can then turn your attention to the colors, finishes and design features (the most important part) of a fixture you are interested in. If you have any questions about the living room bowl pendant lights featured here, please call our lighting experts at 877.445.4486.

Other Considerations

If a bowl-shaped ceiling light doesn't quite fit the layout and decor of your living room, you will want to check out the other pendant options available. Hanging lights come in a variety of intriguing shapes and sizes, from glass-blown mini pendants to large, stunning drum-shaped lights that will make for an elegant statement in your home. And try to complement the ceiling lights in your living room with additional contemporary light fixtures including table lamps and artwork lighting.