Five light fixtures that will not work in my kitchen (and one that might)

The light fixture in our kitchen is original to the house. It’s a small fluorescent circle, and it doesn’t really provide enough light to illuminate the workspace. It’s also pretty boring. I’d like to replace with with something that both provides more light and adds some pizzazz. Our kitchen is very small, though, and we have 8-foot ceilings. So I need to find something that’s flush-mounted or close to it, and there aren’t a whole lot of flush-mounted lights that are also snazzy.

Also, cool light fixtures cost a lot of dollars.

Here’s a selection of light fixtures that caught my eye this evening. Most of them won’t work, but one of them might if I can convince myself to spend the money on it.

Anemone by Robert Abbey

The Anemone flush-mount wall fixture would definitely be a statement piece in our kitchen, but with its 23-inch diameter I’m afraid the statement might be “Look how small our kitchen is! The light fixture takes up most of the ceiling!” And also it’s $700.

Zanadoo by Arteriors

Zanadoo is a spiky wonderment. The pros: I could use it to hold marshmallows, and I love it. The cons: Not only is it even bigger than the Anemone, it’s $1,920.

Hope by Francisco Gomez Paz and Paolo Rizzatto

It’s stunning! It’s bright! It’s ginormous! It’s $6,000.

Meurice by Jonathon Adler

I don’t love the shape, but it would definitely light things up. It’s $1,592, though, so it doesn’t really matter whether or not I love it because we’re definitely not buying it.

Maria S.C. by Pani Jurek

An artist in Poland makes these using test tubes. You can fill them with water or flowers or whatever you’d like (so long as it’ll fit in a test tube.) At $266, it’s the least expensive fixture on this list, but it’s too long for our 8-foot ceilings. I do love the idea, though.

Sense II by ET2 Lighting

This one is unique, it’s neither too wide nor too long, and it’s more affordable than the most of the others I like. It’s still nearly $500, though, and that’s a lot of money to spend on a light fixture.

The most likely scenario? We’ll keep the 1956 fixture and attach some battery-powered lights to the undersides of the cabinets. (Which I’d also like to replace, but that’s a post for another NaBloPoMo post.)