Too many colours and finishes starts to look too busy and disjointed. You already have white cabinets, wood grain cabinets and black bar stools. I'd probably try and find something that has both black and natural colour (like wood tone) in it - don't get brass as there is nothing to link it up with - it looks like your tap is stainless steel - if that was brass you could have got away with brass pendants.

I agree don’t add too many colours or finishes, love the stark minimalist pendants, feature down lights or a fabulous linear pendant. Keeping it simple and beautiful it will always look stunning.

Agree with dreamer, I think your stools are overpowering your beautiful kitchen, something a little less heavy would look much nicer and balance the kitchen beautifully.

Thanks for the feedback everyone!! Great suggestions Julie - thank you. I feel the same so having this confirmation is great thanks.

Regarding your comments dreamer - great to hear your opinion. For us, this layout was the easiest and most cost effective solution for us that has come up really well. While the kitchen might appear small in the images, it is indeed a very big kitchen that we are very happy with. Oven is in a safe and functional location for us - and works for our family.

Are you wanting to replace the downlights with pendants over the breakfast bar?

Visually I like some of the ideas but I'm thinking if the lighting you have works is it worth to change it? You'll have holes to patch, you have ducting to work around for placement of the new lighting, and you'll have fittings to always dust. Personally I like functional areas to be as streamlined and low maintenance as possible.

The kitchen looks lovely, though I'm surprised to see a gas cooktop in such a recent renovation.

I think a black bar pendant similar to the image below is what we are thinking of but will see. i feel like the barstools are too harsh and will ultimately be replaced with a wooden tractor stool. Also, regarding gas cooktop - we are big cooks and an electric cooktop just doesn’t do it for us. Will send updatea once i have properly ”styled” bench tops ect…. still in reno phase.

Love that pendant, it will look fabulous, I put in a gas cooktop as well, I just love cooking with gas too. Beautiful kitchen

I love wooden tractor stools. Have them in oak. Many retailers James Lane, Black Mango etc have specials at the moment. Mine are from James Lane, good quality but I can not recommend the lm based delivery and customer service. If you can get to a store then consider them.

If going for a pendant, that was the one I was drawn to too.