Breakfast Nook Lighting Ideas

Wall Sconces

• Many breakfast nooks are located against a wall, making sconces a logical choice for providing a little extra light. These sconces generally direct light upward where it can bounce off your ceiling and light up the room. Some sconces do not have bottoms so that when they are hung on the wall, they shoot a beam of light towards the ceiling and another towards the floor.

Spotlights

• Small track lights or spotlights hung above the breakfast nook (within reach of your hands) allow you to constantly direct and redirect where bright lights are targeted. This is particularly helpful if the light entering through your kitchen windows changes intensity during the change of seasons and will ensure that you can see adequately to complete any task.

Accent Pieces

• To give your breakfast nook a distinctive character, decorate it with accent lighting. Funky vintage ceiling lights or antique lanterns that have been rewired for modern electrics can make even the tiniest of breakfast nooks feel expensive, exotic, and completely personalized.

Dimmers

• Because the breakfast nook can be used at any time of day for such a wide variety of tasks, you will find that incorporating dimmer switches into your lighting plans is advantageous. This will let you have bright light on the area when chopping vegetables for dinner or helping the kids with the homework as well as dim lighting for preparing a midnight snack or eating an intimate meal with your spouse. Certain lights are not compatible with dimmers, so check with the manufacturer before making your final lighting purchases.