I have this same problem currently with my kitchen remodel. What did you decide? Did you move the lights or decide to leave them as pictured?

We had the contractor remove the 6” can lights outside the coffer and replace them with a larger number of 4” wafer lights centered on each section. One each for the pantry, fridge, double bank of upper cabinets, range, and triple bank of cabinets. Then there are two 4” lights on sink edges, and 2 semi-centered on each panel of our sliding glass door. The sliding door lights could not be centered on each panel due to the presence of the fire sprinkler. We are much happier. Will post photos after the drywall is patched.

I suggested to my contractor that using more 4” lights rather than the 6” may solve the issue. When the lights were originally added, the placement made sense. But now that the cabinets and hood are in, I can’t unsee that uncentered light above the hood. Happy the 4’s solved your issue. I’m going to figure out placement of 4’s now.

Does that hood can placement really matter though, if your hood has its own integrated lights?

@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.

@mcarroll16 It is purly asthetic. The locations were so close to center, but not close enough to look like they are on center...they just look like they trying to be placed on-center, but they messed up.