If you have a knocked through lounge and dining room

[Mygardenandme]

What ceiling lights do you have?

Small rooms. We have a central ceiling light in the lounge part and in the dining room part. We currently have large drum lamp shades on them but are redecorating so Im after something else.

We have lamps but husband likes the big light on.

My two rooms are decorated very differently, the front is light blue walls , white - grey laminate floor , white wood work.
The ceiling lampshade is a white paper sphere.
The back / living room is much darker ,red walls red carpet dark brown woodwork
The ceiling light is metal copper colour on the top and cream inside.
Both rooms have grey / white mother and child 5 foot tall lamps

We don't at our current house (a Georgian cottage), but previously we did.

That property was a 400 year old converted mill that had been extended to one side by a previous owner. The extension became our main living room once we'd added floor-to-ceiling oak framed windows and we decided to make the darker, 'middle' room - that opened to a lobby leading to the garden (which was mostly at the side) - the dining room. The whole space was around 30' long, had oak flooring with large Persian rugs and was colour-drenched in F&B Olive.

At the living end, we had a 'spider' light fitting with six exposed bulbs that radiated out from the central rose. At the dining end, we had something similar but with just two oversized, decorative bulbs. Over the table we hung a vintage iron candelabra with six candles we lit at dinner parties/Christmas etc.

We rarely used the overhead lights as we prefer the atmosphere with lamps. We had two table lamps and a floor lamp in the dining space and three table lamps in the living space.