What is your budget and how many fixtures are you looking for?

Budget is roughly $200 per fixture.

Thanks very much, homepro. These are great leads.

Another question, homepro: are you aware of any high voltage fixtures that look like flush mount/can light fixtures but don't have can/body that goes up into the ceiling or has a very shallow can?

We can't do can lights because we don't have anything above our ceiling - we have a few inches of insulation and then it goes to our roof.

We tried another mono point that our contractor brought over this morning, and it was still too big. I'd rather do something flush if we can find such a fixture.

Yes I am familiar with recessed looking fixtures that don't have a housing. I have three of them in my hallway. I got the 4" Gimbal Lotus LED units. These are normal line voltage at 120v. They are dimmable and the light quality is excellent. They are about 0.5inch thick and hang off the drywall on the ceiling.

How tall are you ceilings? Recessed lights are not great in really tall ceilings.

Thanks again. These may work - I'm checking with my electrician. The ceilings are sloped and 17 feet at the highest point. We have two pendants over the island one rafter over from the spot where the mono points were going to go and cove lighting around the perimeter of the room, as well as under counter lights.

Just spoke with him -- we only have 1 1/2 inches until we hit roofing material, so even the shallow cans are out. Darn. So i need the smallest and strongest mono points I can find (not on track - single fixtures). I'll take a look through the links you provide, homepro.

Pipdog,

Here is the Freejack outlets for the Techlighting System for example. Here is the Burk from Techlighting which has a 3" stem. Something like that fixture may be a choice. For 17' ceilings, I would use longer stems.

For spots where you can do with recessed lights, consider the 4" super slim LED for locations in the room where the ceiling is less than 10'.

Pipdog sounds like we have the same height vault ceilings... I just posted a lighting question as well. Does your electrician have any suggestions? Seems like he would have lots of ideas. can't wait to see more of your kitchen! Love that big Neolith island of yours! I'll be right over for a glass of wine there to enjoy the view ;)

Pipdog, Tech Lighting also has regular line voltage heads that mount to individual "power jacks". According to the website the

Power Jack Canopy mounts directly to a ceiling junction box to power a compatible Power Jack head. Each Power Jack element can be used up to its specified wattage.

This product can mount to either a 4" square electrical box with round plaster ring or an octagon electrical box.For ceiling mount only.

This is what it looks like. (Sorry for the huge picture)

They have some LED heads and some incandescent ones for those power jacks. You can get the heads in 6 or 12 inch lengths. Here's an LED one that is quite small.

The head itself is only 3.4"x4.8". It's called the Fokis.

I didn't look up the price.

I have some Tech pendant lights in my kitchen that I love. Tech makes high quality products.

We have the Tech Kable Lite system in our family room, with IIRC the k-hello heads, which can be angled as desired.