Chandelier Size Over Dining Table

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Chandelier size over dining table.

If your ceiling is higher than eight feet high the recommended clearance is 36 to 40 inches. For example my table is 83 inches long which would suggest i could use a chandelier up to 70 inches long. Another version of this rule is that the diameter of the fixture should be about 1 foot less in diameter than the width of the dining room table at its widest point. If your ceiling is less than eight feet high your dining room chandelier should hang 30 to 34 from the table top to the bottom of the chandelier and be centered over the table.

If your table is 36 inches wide the width of the ideal chandelier would be 24 inches wide. The best way to achieve this is to select a fixture that s diameter is somewhere between half and three quarters the diameter or width of the tabletop. The diameter of a dining room chandelier should be about one half to two thirds the width of the table over which it will be hanging. For the length of the table you want to make sure that the chandelier s length is at least 12 inches less than the table.

For example let s say that you have a dining table with 32 inches in width and 66 inches in length. If you are choosing a round chandelier its diameter should be between 16 32 x 1 2 to 21 32 x 2 3 inches. 1 chandeliers above dining room tables should have a diameter of 1 2 to 2 3 the width of the table. For example if the dining room table was 48 wide x 60 long the chandelier that is 24 to 36 in diameter would be an appropriate size to compliment the table.