You really should have a size of the room when asking what you need. Small tables should only need 2 or 3, but larger tables in bigger rooms would require more. I always typically use a 60 degree bulb in these rooms on a good dimmer to control lighting. If you use a 4 inch can, you can put in trims that can focus lighting in certain areas. 4 inch low voltage lights are very nice, and installed correctly, can yield awesome results. But I would want pictures or at least the size area used to determine what's best. I always work better with photos than dimensions though. Mike

I'm not into trends, so we pretty much do around our place as we really want it. This year I put 21 Lithonia LED recessed throughout the dining/kitchen/living/hall. Wife wanted the chandelier eliminated in the foyer, and installed a 5" recessed there. The dining room is set up with a ceiling fan/light, 4-5" recessed on a dimmer, then 2-3" recessed on another dimmer. The living room we added a ceiling fan/light, and 4-5" recessed lights on a dimmer. We're very happy with the outcome. I must say, when I was determining where to place the lights, the ceiling looked like a grid. I shot drywall screws into the ceiling, & ran twine from end to end. Two of the lights we ended up adding was in the hallway after I put a 5" recessed light there. We added 2-3" recessed at each closet. In the enclosed space, the recessed just don't light up like a globe does. Next is the bathroom. I can run all 21 lights, & still be under the watts used for our 4 bulb vanity light. Makes it seem all worthwhile.

I don't think so. We didn't in our DR. We have a chandelier over the table and nothing else (unless you count the speakers in the ceiling!). Be sure the chandelier sheds enough light to light up the area adequately. What I would do, though, is put the chandelier on a dimmer.

We have both in our dining room (chandelier and recessed), it opens onto the kitchen and the living room (where I also put recessed). Probably a decorating no no, but we put smaller cans (4 inch) in and only on the perimeter of those rooms, and they are on dimmers and I love how they look and they don't detract from my chandelier at all, at least I don't think so. Our house is being remodeled so the pictures show burned out bulbs and a huge mess, but at least you can see the recessed with the chandelier and the fan. It may not be the proper way to do things, but I love having the recessed when we entertain, and we can turn them way down when we want to watch a movie in the living room so you can make it feel like a theater. We have much less room in this house than in our old one, so no place is formal even if I do have formal furnishings in the dining room, we just couldn't afford to have a museum for fine furniture like we did in our old house, with it's separate LR and DR that no one ever went in.