I'm on team husband. Ditch the track lighting, you don't have a sunglasses display kiosk in your bedroom. The overall lighting plan needs designed. Don't know the layout of the beams, but one option is LED strips hidden on top of the beams, uplighting the ceiling.

thanks,, but we wanted good general downlighting as well? Electrician didn’t wire sloped ceiling for recessed/wafers because he said lighting would be weird with sloped ceilings, and he counseled against doing adjustable eye type lights on slopes. I had the idea of cutting into the beams to recess tiny wafers, but not sure if that’s a fire hazard... We’ve already ordered solid wood beams... electrician has. wired for something to go on the beams....

This is your bedroom? Do you really need “general downlighting?” I rarely use the overhead light in our master. I have a switch that turns on bedside lamps when I enter the room. Up lighting to highlight your ceiling (and located, invisibly, on the tops of your beams) sounds lovely. Or, perhaps, if “downlighting” is necessary, a chandelier centered in your room, hanging down between the beams?

Thanks. I feel like we need downlighting. Two little sconces next to bed won’t do it. room is 19 by 15? As I get older I feel like I can’t see for getting dressed etc etc. great natural light but not at night in our New England climate!? We will likely only have one small lamp on dresser...

We have cathedral ceilings in all of our bedrooms, and they look beautiful with big chandeliers over the beds. I would not do track lighting, as I don't think it looks very attractive, and a cathedral ceiling naturally draws your eyes up, so you want something nice to look at! Our chandeliers are plenty bright to light up the room.

Thank you! Do you have beams? How did you fit chandeliers around beams? would love to see pictures!

I don't understand where the beams go or their purpose. If they're at the intersection of the wall and cathedral ceiling what will they be supporting? Are they just rafter ties? Do you have a section drawing?

There are three decorative douglas fir beams that are running from the window side of the room that you see in the picture — they are running across at a height of about nine feet — where the roof line meets the walls — the ceiling continues up to about 26 feet... they aren’t supporting anything- they were a design feature to break up the room. There is going to be a ceiling fan (paddle fan) up at the top of the ceiling in the center of the space, but we don’t want to have a light in the fan.... only light source will be sconces on either side of bed, and a lamp on the dresser. I had originally wanted to do faux beams and insert tiny wafers into those, but somehow builder ordered expensive natural wood beams and my understanding is that we can’t insert little tiny recessed lights or wafers into real wood?

You can see the lighting wires coiled up above the windows where the beams will run......

What is the slope of the roof?

not sure? Standard?

I have cathedral ceiling in my great room, cypress ceiling and beams I have cable lights which I think have a nice little contrast to the rustic nature of the room.

What are cable lights? Any pictures? Thank you!

Ditch the track lighting

Track lighting, to me, says "industrial".

Thanks. I feel like we need downlighting.

Agree. Even if you don't use your overhead lighting on a regular basis, you need it. It's your most basic lighting. It's what you can turn on as you enter the room. Apartments don't always have overhead lighting in bedrooms, but houses do!

What would you put in? We h ave already done foam insulation. so can’t add wires to sloped ceiling. wiring is done at locations where beams will be.....

You can use monopods (a track light without a track) or a recessed/flush track or wall mounted up lighting like the Wedge LED wall sconce from Sonneman or a 35 degree adjustable recessed ceiling light if the roof slope is 8 in 12 or less steep.

What I find disappointing about cathedral ceiling is the difficulty of lighting the walls which is more important than lighting the floor.

If the beams are wide enough, its possible to place up lights on top of them to light the ceiling but stay clear of the ceiling fan. Use a fixture tested for that configuration.

You might also consider asking a lighting consultant if only from a lighting store.