For ceilings higher than 8 feet add about three inches to the hanging height per foot.
Distance between light fixture dining room table.
This same rule holds true for lighting over kitchen tables.
Your light fixture should hang 30 36 inches from the top of your table if you have an 8 foot ceiling.
The standard height from the top of your table to the bottom of the light fixture above should be between.
Light fixture height from dining room table.
If the ceiling is higher the recommended standard is to raise the chandelier 3 inches for each additional foot of ceiling height.
A fixture is what the light bulb goes into.
This range assumes you have an 8 foot ceiling.
The light fixture should be hung 30 34 inches above the dining table.
Others support the notion of adding 3 inches to the chandelier height for every additional foot of ceiling height.
The bottom of your light fixture should be 30 to 34 inches 76 2 to 86 4 cm above the table.
Measure the distance between the table and the light fixture.
So if your ceiling is 10 feet tall your lighting fixture should be hung 36 40 inches over the table.
Any less space than that and the light may be too.
It s between 30 36 from the top of the table.
3 hang it even higher so no one can possibly bump into it if it is a translucent and solid chandelier.
I personally prefer the lights higher so they don t get in the way when we sit across the table or when i have to get up and get something from the table.
Some believe that ceiling height has no bearing on the relative placement of the light fixture and that the distance between the fixture and the table should remain between 30 and 34 inches.
Ceilings higher than that well you do the math.