y pour so much time, money and effort into getting the just right kitchen units and flooring etc only to have it all resemble a particularly dreary railway waiting room thanks to poor lighting?
Kitchen lights have evolved almost beyond recognition from the bad old days when it seemed that most every kitchen sported an obligatory fluorescent strip or several as central
kitchen ceiling lighting (an especially nasty trend that is unfortunately still with us in some kitchens to this day). Nowadays you can pick from kitchen track lighting systems, recessed spots, wall lights, lights under, over and inside cabinets, ...
Sure, you'll get bright light - but it will be flat and cold and almost guaranteed to give you a headache in short order.
One of the obvious problems with using central kitchen ceiling lighting is that you invariably end up with dark spots and find yourself perpetually standing in your own shadow. Until recently, a common solution to these problems with kitchen lighting was to install numerous halogen spotlights as downlights spread uniformly across the ceiling and supplement ... 
