you could go with 4" also for the 9' ceilings, but either way is good.

I am replacing an old ceiling fan in my kitchen that I'm renovating. The rest of the lighting is recessed, so this will be the only fixture. 8 foot ceilings, so has to be flush mount. White cabinets with brushed brass hardware.

Hi Brendan, I'm not a lighting designer, but I'll throw out some thoughts and maybe someone else will chime in. I agree with removing the recessed lights above the island. I would let the pendants cover that area. (I have two at 750 - 800 lumen bulb pendants that cover an area similar to your island. I put the pendants on a separate switch and often use them by themselves.) It does seem like the third light in the middle of the ceiling may not be doing much for you. However, do you think you might want any more light over by the refrigerator? You could either shift that light toward the refrigerator or space it evenly in line with the lights along the oven wall. (Toward the left on your last picture.) To check how much light you have if you removed the fixtures, can you just unscrew the bulbs or disconnect those fixtures temporarily to see what it looks like? If you have any table lamps that could stand in for the pendants, you could get an idea how the whole thing might look. Hope that helps! Best of luck with the remodel! Doug

The light fixtures in your brochure pics are way to glary. Definitely not subtle. I wouldn't want to live with them. Our great room is some similarly sized to yours and we have the fan lights plus six 6" can lights, two cans skimming the fireplace brickwork and four cans spaced on a larger square pattern around the room, all on dimmers. The newer pancake LED lights have the light source even with the ceiling surface, not recessed, if you use them you will be creating glare as well. I choose to use the recessed cans and retrofit them with LED lamps to get the best of both, recessed LED lighting. Our ceiling fan has three 40W equivalent LED's on the bottom, and four 60W equivalent LED's on top, all behind milky glass. Everything in the house is 3000K. The fan lights are fine for TV watching, and we don't use the extra can light normally, but at family gatherings opening presents we do need the extra light.