Modern Pendant Lighting to Upgrade Your Living Spaces

If you want your home to feel bright and inviting, you'll want to focus on upgrading your light sources. The modern pendant lighting collection at Williams Sonoma includes a variety of hanging lights to brighten and modernize your living spaces. These versatile pendants make a great addition to living rooms, dining rooms, entryways and more.

Pendant Light Shades

When shopping for modern pendant lighting at Williams Sonoma, you'll have a wide variety of materials, shapes and colors to choose from. They typically feature a glass light shade and metal frame, with finish options including bronze, antique brass and polished nickel. Some shades use clear glass, while others use seeded glass or white glass for a more muted look. For extra light diffusion, opaque white or black glass shades are also available. If you'd prefer a softer look with modern appeal, look for fixtures that use white linen light shades instead of glass ones.

These modern pendant shades come in small, medium and large size options to suit the needs of your living space. They also come in a variety of shape options, including drums, globes, cylinders or conical styles. Some hang from sleek metal poles, while others hang from decorative chains. The poles and chains are also adjustable to minimum and maximum hanging lengths, allowing you to get the best fit for your application.

Hanging Your Modern Pendants

Since the hanging pendants in this collection require hardwiring, you'll want to have a professional electrician do the installation in your chosen space. These luxurious lights look great in front entryways or living rooms with tall ceilings. If you're looking to brighten up your front door from the outside, you'll need to shop for outdoor pendant lights that use specific weather-resistant materials instead.

Pendants make a modern alternative to the traditional chandelier in dining rooms. Be sure to leave about 30 to 36 inches of space between the light and your dining table. These versatile lights are also popular kitchen lighting options. Customize the look to fit your kitchen island by hanging several matching pendants in a row. Or, if you want to get creative, you can mix-and-match pendants of different colors or sizes to create a lighting display that really stands out in your kitchen. You'll typically want to leave about 24 inches between each pendant and hang 30 to 36 inches above the island.

Shop for modern pendant lighting at Williams Sonoma to brighten up your living spaces. Choose from a variety of small, medium and large pendant light shades, with different finishes, shade materials and shade shapes to choose from. Hang them in your entryway, kitchen, dining room or other spaces around the home in need of a little extra brightness and a modern upgrade.