Hi there, I agree with a lot of the suggestions above. Consider the textures, colours and finishes of your furnishings and artwork and think of the pendants as an opportunity to reiterate some of these. So for instance, if you have some black metal in the coffee table legs, you may bring in some of that in the kitchen pendants and look for say glass pendants with black fixtures. Coloured pendants are fun but they can date a lot quicker - bring in colour in the room through artwork, cushions and accessories.

If you are in New Zealand, I have often found great lights (and a big range) at Lighting Plus. When I was putting my house on the market I put three of these: http://www.lightingplus.co.nz/lighting/pendants/contemporary/jaga-bcopal-1light-pendant.html over my kitchen benchtop, and they looked just gorgeous. So gorgeous in fact, that I have already bought three new ones in advance for when I upgrade the kitchen lighting in my new house. They also have these : http://www.lightingplus.co.nz/lighting/pendants/contemporary/hudson25-whitegold-1lt-pendant.html or these: http://www.lightingplus.co.nz/lighting/pendants/contemporary/trumpet35-pendant-blackgold.html  if you like the look of the internal gold under the shade. There are also others similar. I have also found some great lights at : http://www.edenlighting.co.nz/collections/pendant-lights . All of these are very affordable. However if you want to go really high end, and you like NZ timber lights, you can't go past : https://www.davidtrubridge.com/collection/lighting/  Just my 2c. Enjoy.

Oh my goodness Kate! How did you do that??? Photo magic. Thank you so so much. Ok looks like the two it is bigreader. And yes Kate, I did not realise that the range hood is silver! Yikes. That will compete with the gold. And I have a silver fridge too!!! Eeek.

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 ?