{"id":47,"date":"2026-08-10T14:45:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/furniture\/2026\/08\/10\/lighting-a-dining-room-so-everyone-looks-good\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:45:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:45:04","slug":"lighting-a-dining-room-so-everyone-looks-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/furniture\/2026\/08\/10\/lighting-a-dining-room-so-everyone-looks-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighting a Dining Room So Everyone Looks Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Dining light has one job that has nothing to do with seeing your food: it has to be kind to the faces around the table.<\/p><h2 class=\"h4 fw-medium text-transform-none mt-5 mb-3\">Hang it lower than you think<\/h2><p>A pendant should sit 75 to 85cm above the tabletop. Higher and it glares into eyes; lower and it blocks the conversation across the table.<\/p><h2 class=\"h4 fw-medium text-transform-none mt-5 mb-3\">Warm and dimmable, always<\/h2><p>Below 2700K the light flatters skin and food alike. A dimmer turns the same fitting from a homework lamp into a dinner-party one.<\/p><h2 class=\"h4 fw-medium text-transform-none mt-5 mb-3\">Add a second layer<\/h2><p>A single pendant leaves the rest of the room black. A pair of wall lights at low level gives the room depth once the plates are cleared.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dining light has one job that has nothing to do with seeing your food: it has to be kind to the faces around the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/furniture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/furniture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/furniture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/furniture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/furniture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/furniture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/furniture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/furniture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/furniture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/furniture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}