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An important touch to an impressive kitchen is lighting. Good kitchens need good lighting. Whether you’re remodeling an old kitchen or building a new one, abundant light should be high on the list of the features you will incorporate. If you plan an entirely new kitchen, the new electrical plan will be part of the drawings showing the cabinets, appliances, and plumbing.

Kitchen lighting can be a wonderful, relatively inexpensive way of reinforcing your kitchen’s theme. Well-planned kitchen lighting will create cheerful and inviting spaces, increase the safety of food preparation, and highlight cabinetry and design features.

The amount of natural light (windows) plays a huge factor in lighting design, but you will need adequate lighting over food preparation areas, under cabinets, and in darker places. Kitchen lighting should be a combination of natural light, general lighting, and task lighting.

Task lighting is the light that enables you to see what you’re doing as you perform the tasks of the work centers. Usually, task lighting is installed under wall cabinets (under-cabinet lighting), though it may also be recessed into soffit or ceiling or come from track fixtures. The various styles of under-cabinet lighting range from the very simple to some pretty expensive add-ons.