Kitchen ceiling lights have come a long way. Since kitchens have been modernized and made part of a more open design in open style kitchen layouts, these lighting fixtures have become more prominent, more visible, and an important part of the rest of the decor. Kitchens are now the center of entertainment, and no longer the cook needs to be removed and isolated from what is going on in the main entertainment area many times, the kitchen becomes the main entertainment area, thanks to open design in home layouts.

Designers have focused on kitchen ceiling lights not only as a functional way to provide illumination to the cooking area, but also in a decorative and important way to enhance the decor of an area and provide an element of beauty. Ceiling lights are fitted on the ceiling of a room to facilitate equal lighting to the whole area. The different types of ceiling lights based on the lighting design are chandeliers, pendant lights, LED downlights, top view lamps, spotlights, etc. Chandeliers are ornamental lights used for decorating the ceilings and hence involve exclusive lighting design to suit the size of the room and also to provide sufficient illumination.

Chandeliers are centerpiece decorative fixtures, which are usually branched and have three to over thirty placeholders with metal and glass, crystal or ceramic ornamentation. These have been in use since medieval times and the illumination in chandeliers is facilitated by refraction of light through these ornamentations. Big halls in hotels, public buildings and galleries invariably are decorated with extravagant chandeliers. Some of the palaces still have chandeliers that are lit with candles.

Another form is the pendant light, which has long metal pipes or rods to hang the fixtures from the ceiling. They are normally used in rooms with a high ceiling so that the entire room is lit up brightly. Generally, they are used to provide illumination over dining tables or over kitchen slabs or used as entrance lights. Pendant lights can also have lamp shades made of fabric, paper or stained glass.

LED downlights are an inbuilt kitchen ceiling lights system exclusively used on the ceiling of a room. The downlights can be a single big centerpiece light fixture or can also be multiple mini downlights fixed in a particular order as border lights or as assorted distributed lights on the ceiling; this ensures evenly spread out lighting and thus it the most desired lighting design used on the ceilings of commercial buildings.

Top view lamps became popular after the introduction of contemporary lighting. Top view lamps are a form of ceiling lights where modern light fixtures have LED tubes that are twisted and arched to suit the shape of the lighting design. The top view light fixtures can be made of different coloured stained glass to gel with the wall colour and also to give a trendy and vibrant look.Spotlights are also used as ceiling lights. Most of the corridor ceilings, bathroom ceilings, kitchen ceilings and dining room ceilings have spotlights to highlight a particular spot or area with focused lighting. In living rooms spotlights are used to highlight are work and exclusive decorative pieces.