I read somewhere that they should lined up with the edge of the countertop. Anyway, I'm curious about this too so hopefully someone has some answers!

Mine are 3' out fr the wall, based on my kitchen layout it worked out well. That allowed them to be in a straight line. I have them on either side of the cooktop, either side of the sink, above the sink, in front of the dbl ovens and centered on the frig and doorway. I have undercab lighting and I don't experience shadows.

Your photo was too small on my screen to see, so I'll just give you general advice:

- You want your cans placed somewhere around the edge of the counter to 3" from the edge. That is so that you don't have the lighting behind you while you work at the counter (which would cast a shadow where you'd want the most light). Furthermore, rule of thumb is that the lights are about 4'-5' apart from each other, unless you are using the 4" cans which must be closer to each other (not sure about the 4" cans distance).

- don't have lights so close to upper cabinets that you won't be able to open an upper cabinet door without scraping the recessed can trim.

- where there is no countertop, like at the fridge or at a pull-out cabinet, you may want to put the can a little farther away from the wall than you would over the countertop so that the light sheds on the pull-out (when it's pulled out) or into the fridge. Don't worry whether the cans will all be in a line or not - no one will notice, and you want to avoid the "airplane runway" look anyway.

- you don't have to worry about lighting a range or cooktop, assuming you'll have a hood or OTR MW with lights in it.

- there is no point in spending money on cans that will just be lighting the floor.

- you should have a light dedicated to the sink. I have seen some people put two small 4" cans over the sink so that there is no shadow anywhere while standing at the sink. We opted for one 5" can, and have been happy with it.

- one exercise is to go to Home Depot, get a couple of extension cords and a couple of plug-in light sockets that can be used with flood bulbs. Stand on a ladder and hold them up, or have someone hold them up, where you think you want the lights, and see how it looks and where the light is shed. DH and I did this, and it was the best tool ever to show us where to place our cans.

My new kitchen has cans over the aisles. My old kitchen had them over the counters. I have no problem with "lighting up the floor" since I consider the cans as general lighting, not task lighting and I have good under cabinet lights for task lighting. Otherwise, I would have had to use twice the number of cans and it would have been too much in my smallish kitchen.

Will you have a light inside your pantry? If not, you will need one. We had a similar corner pantry in our last house that did not have a light in it and it really needed it. The can just outside our pantry door was not sufficient. The placement of your other cans looks okay. Will you have undercabinet lighting also?

Thank you for the replies!

Yes, the pantry has its own lights and there will also be undercabinet lights.

Thanks again!