After you've chosen your chandelier's site, how do you use this living space without the fixture dominating it. If you have low ceilings, you will want to be very careful with your selection. When trying to use a chandelier as a focal point in your home, the real challenge is choosing the right piece for its purpose. Low hanging chandeliers can make an open room feel strangely cluttered not to mention frustrate taller folks. If you have high ceilings, you'll want to have a long enough chain to hang your fixture as low as you want.

One way to accomplish this is to keep your ceiling height in mind. No one should have to duck around a chandelier just to walk through the room. You don't want to create a negative focal point, but rather one your houseguests will admire and compliment you on.

As a general rule, you will want to have the bottom of the chandelier about eight feet above the floor.

Your chandelier will fill in some of the open space toward the top of your room, making the general feel of the room friendly and inviting.