On Oct 10, 8:49*am, Jeff Thies wrote:
* *The kitchen is moving along and it is time to look at lighting. I'm
looking for ideas. The house is plaster lath so recessed lighting is out.

* *I see this as being divided into general lighting, ceiling mounted,
and workspace lighting.

* *For general I had thought of some kind of small track lighting like this:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50112415

* *But all the small track lights are halogens, anyone seen any with
something more efficient that is affordable? The LEDS I saw are still
too pricey. Perhaps I'm stuck with a flush mount.

* *It looks to me that workspace lighting should be directly over the
space. I have no cabinets over the workspaces so I think this leads to
some kind of pendant hanging light. They seem to be halogen also.

* I'll be looking at Lowes, IKEA and the Borg. Maybe I'm missing
somewhere... Should I suck it up and do the halogens, are affordable
drop in LEDS on the way?

* *Jeff

I HATE recessed lights, they tend to cast shadows and in a kitchen you
definitely want diffused lighting. I would try to find a showcase
place for kitchen cabinets and see what kind of lighting they use, and
if you like that kind of lighting, fine

When we remodeled our kitchen a few years ago, we ended up using a
very low profile fluorescent 4' dual bulb fixture in the center of the
ceiling, and a number of fluorescent fixtures under the cabinets.
The cabinet fixtures were mounted up against the bottom of the
cabinets, and then I made panels that fit up under the skirts of the
cabinets that match the finish of the cabinets, and cut openings in
the panels and finished the openings off with standard plexiglass
diffusers cut to the size opening needed. Held the plexiglass in
place with a dab of hot glue in each corner so that the plexiglas can
be easily removed to replace the bulbs without having to remove the
panels. Shadowless light on all the countertops, negligible heating
from the bulbs into the cabinets over the bulbs, what more could you
want.