I have a 20' x 13' kitchen with the counters around the outside of the room. (I am renovating.) I will be putting task lights above the counters in a sofit that runs above the cabinets and the lights can shine down directly onto the counter tops. I was looking at Home Depot (before I go to a more specialized lighting store) and saw some 3" cans that have adjustable optics with 50 watt GU10 bulbs. We were thinking that we could replace them with equivilent LED bulbs when they burned out,. The brand name is Lithonia Lighting, 3" Nickel Gimball recessed lights. My questions are 1) has anybody heard of this product? 2)Do you think 10 cans around the perimeter of the room will give enough task lighting? and 3)Can you get respectable quality at HD or should I go look at a specific lighting store? Thank you for any suggestions. Ailsa

None of that would be convenient to use, so you won’t end up using them at all. Light switches need to be easily accessible, and from 40”-54” above the floor. That is what will get used. I have placed them underneath upper cabinetry and then skinned the bottom flush, but they do not belong below elbow height. Nor do they belong above eye height. Your electrician should be able to work something out here. What does he say?

If you're in a city with a large lighting store, you can pay for an hour or two of consultant's time. I did that when planning our kitchen and it was a big help.

@old1997new We have similar problems...but i think yours is harder to resolve. We designed our island as the centerpeice, with the coffer evenly bordering around the island...then on each end of the island is a 42" fridge, and a 48" range with outside edges aligned. So it was designed to be able to have the "general" can lighting centered on the fridge and the range. To do this, a 3" differnce in location from the lights to the coffer border would be required, but you would never see this difference with given that the lights are 4' from the coffer border. You seem to have a range/upper cabinets which are themselves symmetric, with an island that is offset from them. However, the can lighting looks like it might be located to be symmetric around the island..or maybe just evenly spaced with no reference point? I am pretty particular about this sort of thing, but you have pendent lights to "frame" the island, and I would say those can lights should be located based on the major feature, which is the range. This is just my opinion, and it seems to me like a contractors job is to make you think that the fact that they did it "the right way" no matter how careless they have been. In this case it is hard to make the argument that it is "wrong", but it would have been simple to locate them better with a little bit of thought. Funny story...as they were drilling the 4" holes, they actually messed up the location again. Like...the dude didn't measure to make sure they were on a centerline. Some people just don't care about details...so it is up to you to make sure you get what you want.