Suggestions for recessed lights for kitchen .. thinking of going 4"

We built a few years ago.

Almost all of the recess lights in our house are 4"

Looks much cleaner and the loss of light is negligible

ETA: with 8' ceilings I think 12 lights is overkill
I think 8 would be plenty

I added 4" LED wafers to my kitchen area to supplement the undercounter and boxed fluorescents (circa 2000 house)

I actually had the small can halogens and recently replaced to the flush wafers. The flush wafers look better in my opinion. Plus they are fully insulation contact so I blew more insulation over them vs the leaky cans that werent

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There is a massive difference between 4" & 6" lighting. How wide is your room?

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13x30

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Do you have pics right now? This feels like A LOT of lighting for what might not be necessary.

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here's a pretty bad one from today (fish eye so i could capture more of the room)



taken from far corner of dining room. to the right is the massive opening we made for the hallway (it was 2 doors before because there was a wall separating the kitchen and dining room where that drain is along the wall.

cabinet guy is going to make a special cabinet to hide the pipe, directly behind him will be the diswasher, sink and range on far wall (you can see the pipe sticking out of the ceiling) and that door goes into a large den.

the right side wall will be a large pantry, coffee bar (with pasta filler thanks to my friends on the home board! ) and microwave underneath on a shelf. the double fridge & trim will be on the wall just behind that ladder.

the blue tape on the subfloor marks the current locations of the recessed lights and thats the flooring in the boxes.

I'm glad to hear people are liking the puck wafers. I was concerned they would look cheap but maybe in overthinking it like I have with everything in this kitchen

The guys are great labor and will do anything I ask but that puts me in the position of being the default design idiot who missed something major so I stay awake at night going over and over it.

Honestly y'all gave me 2 great suggestions I wouldn't have thought about.. The hidden outlet strips and the spigot behind the coffeemaker.

I guarantee that spigot will get used every single day while the wife's stove filler maybe once or twice a week.

ETA my wife has the design in her head.. I'm just the one making sure everything will fit and electrical, vent pipe and plumbing are in the right places. She could care less about those things.

The slim wafers are so simple and if something goes wrong, you just plug and play a new one. The junction boxes have slots to feed wires to connect wires to one another. GE wafers have clips that you slide into the hole and release. They’re much less of a pain than a traditional recessed can.

That being said, whatever you buy for recessed wafers, stick to that brand and style only. You can’t just change out LEDs like you would with a light bulb. Without Bluetooth, the wafers I have come in warm white. I set them to daylight on the GE Cync app. I’ve seen some wafers that give you the ability to switch between cool, warm, and soft white.

Yeah I should've clarified. I have one closet wafer that only comes in 3 color settings but I didn't feel like spending $40 to just have it run only on white.

I really enjoy my GE Smart Switch which will turn on kitchen lights by motion activation during darker times of the day. It'll also stay off if there is enough interior light (i.e. lighting from windows coming in) to not warrant needing the wafers turned on. It's an annoying setup but once it's done it's fairly user friendly.