Some years ago the two 8-foot fluorescent tubes kitchen overhead lights started overheating, and had to be taken out. We dithered for a long time over what kinds of lights to replace, then finally elected to do track lighting. There is a decorative wood board that the LED tracks mount on, and that also conceals the larger footprint of the fluorescent tubes.
This week we added that overhead lighting, and also some under-counter LED lighting to improve the lighting on the counter, and layer the lights. It’s wonderful to have better kitchen lighting again! (Also a little tricky to get the photograph, without having a light glaring.) The placement of the electrical boxes (at the end of the wooden strips closest to the outside door) limited some of our selections, but I like these lights. They can be oriented in any direction, telescoped in or out for spotlight or broadlighting, and the color temperature can be shifted significantly from “cool” blue to “warm” yellow.
Work done by Jay Watson’s crew. (Jay Watson is a neighborhood contractor, who lives on Maplewood.) Greg is on the floor, Larry on the ladder.
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[…] In 2018 July, a similar incident happened in the kitchen, where the overhead lighting consisted of two 8-foot long fluorescent tubes. One of the fluorescent tube ballasts melted, causing the kitchen ceiling temperature to be almost 170 degrees, according to the fire department, which removed the fluorescent tubes. And in 2025, we finally finished the job, replacing the floor lamp with new LED track lighting. […]