Interior designKitchen Lighting Plan Help

Kitchen Lighting Plan Help

We are renovating an 1880's brownstone looking for a mix of traditional and midcentury styles, but my question is more about lighting function. The first image I attached is the current lighting plan — in the dining area, there's a lamp on the bottom right corner, and three lantern pendant lights above where a rectangular table will go. In the kitchen, we are relying on just two pendant lights above the peninsula, and a sconce high up on the wall above the sink area (11' ceilings). There will also be undercabinet lighting throughout, including beneath the open shelf just above the sink. One more note for context, image three shows the archway that divides the dining and kitchen spaces.

Is this enough lighting? It's slightly layered, but the lights are about to go in and I'm suddenly super nervous. We want soft layered lighting to fit the mood of the house, even though it's a kitchen, but I'm nervous it's underlit.

The potential good news is we originally had recessed lighting in the kitchen that we removed, because we didn't think it fit the mood, and those boxes are still wired. So we could go backwards and add more lighting, like in the second image. I would swap the peninsula pendants for downlights and add the small flush mounts and angle them towards the cabinets to wash them with light. But this plan seems like we have a ton of lights in the room — too much?

Any gut reactions or suggestions between image 1, image 2, or something else? Thanks!

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