I like track lights in a contemporary styled kitchen. Advantages over can lights are that you can place them anywhere you like without worrying about joists, and you can change them around if you don't get the layout perfect initially. Disadvantages include keeping them clean (it's hard to remove grease from them, and spiders find them irresistible as web supports).

I'm planning lighting for a new lake house with vaulted ceilings and want to make sure I think of everything while electrician putting in boxes. I have a very large great room with an open floor plan to kitchen. We will have a long beam running parallel to floor down the length of the room and the kitchen is on one end. Since I do not know the furniture layout yet and the room may be divided into 2 smaller seating areas I am thinking it may look more balanced with 2 ceiling fans in great room with a long track light attached to beam down the center. The kitchen will have a dining area which I plan to hang a pendant light over small dining table but would like some opinions or advice if I am not thinking of all options. (p.s. i don't much care for can lights but am willing to do if necessary) here is my floor plan sorry- I cannot seem to rotate picture

You can probably just buy new LED lights for your existing track. I has the large cans and found three small modern looking heads with colored glass lenses at ReStore for $1 each and just bought LED bulbs at IKEA to replace the halogen lights. You will need to remove one of the existing heads to check the type of track, some has 2 conductors and some have 3, some are line voltage and others are low voltage. The lights usually push against the rail and twist out or might have a pull down spring loaded connection. They might be a little stiff but shouldn't be too tough to remove so keep trying until it pulls out without needing too much force. I have known people to just pull and end up breaking the little tabs on the connection to the track

There are three decorative douglas fir beams that are running from the window side of the room that you see in the picture — they are running across at a height of about nine feet — where the roof line meets the walls — the ceiling continues up to about 26 feet... they aren’t supporting anything- they were a design feature to break up the room. There is going to be a ceiling fan (paddle fan) up at the top of the ceiling in the center of the space, but we don’t want to have a light in the fan.... only light source will be sconces on either side of bed, and a lamp on the dresser. I had originally wanted to do faux beams and insert tiny wafers into those, but somehow builder ordered expensive natural wood beams and my understanding is that we can’t insert little tiny recessed lights or wafers into real wood?