@Neryl, you cracked me up when I read your post ha-ha @lakshmi17, All jokes aside, if you want to go to the trouble of having beautiful pendant lights and your ceiling is so high, get a professional!!! Save up if you have to but it's the best way to go in this case, you might be surprised that it's not as expensive as the cost of the lights you intend to have fitted. I paid over $130 for each of the three lights I have bought to have installed over my dining table and I'm darn sure my electrician won't be charging me $400 to install them!!!

I love industrial too it's raw.. clean lines..our place used to be a shop..terrace out the front then they built an extension out the back to house the printers..hence the high ceilings..we visited Japan just before renovating this place thus the Japan render..pendants were made by one of our client to say thank you..court yard etc

I think the light suits the design , and agree that 2 would look better -- the problem you have now though is that , even if you connect the wiring together for both lights ( so the existing wiring is all that is needed ) , is that you will need 2 new holes in the ceiling ( that top fitting covers them ) BUT you will end up with a hole where the existing wire comes through . On a new build , if you fill it , or even cut out a larger square and get a whole new cut-to-size panel in there and plaster and paint , its possible you'll see the different paint colours , and possibly the filler shrinks or gets a little dimple . Its do-able , but its time consuming ( $$$ ) to get it correct now . In other words , it will be at least in the $100's , so how much do you want 2 lights ?

Hi Dreamer, Lauren others " It’s not necessarily people trying to watch tv while working at the kitchen island, it is more about comfortably having a conversion with people on the other side of island, or doing prep work on the kitchen island without having to dodge the low pendants. " no dodging for prep work as its a wide island bench, tv not an issue but comfortably having a conversion with people on the other side is a point. ** If I keep to within 600mm, being 2400mm ceiling height minus 1800mm tall person leaving 600mm. I could have the Solis pendant at 375mm length and 225mm cord length being 375+225=600 so with the Solis Floor to bench 920mm from bench to bottom of pendant 880mm (height above bench) now at 1800mm from the floor then Pendant at 375mm Cord to ceiling at 225mm