Where is your breaker box? Running wires horizontally in the space between the logs should be a no brainer (you might have to route out some of the chinking to make room). If you mount a strip of down-shining LED lights on the log above the window frame, you should have plenty of light.

Thank you- there is no chinking in this house. The breaker box is in the room below this window.

will there be cabinets or shelves? put the LED lights under those, directed at the work surfaces. then add a few pendants for ambient lighting. after dinner cleanup, t's nice to be able to turn off (or dim) the pendants and leave the under cabinet lights on for mood lighting.

No upper cabinets! There will be a couple of open shelves under which we could install Led lights but that would be for one side of the kitchen counters.

go ahead and do those under shelf LEDs, you'll be glad to have them. then perhaps pendants everywhere else.

or track lighting. I love how you can direct the light exactly where you need it. you could do a combo, where there are tracks in some areas, and pendants in others (such as above the sink or dining areas).

There are extra bright LED strip lights you can put on dimmers. Strip lights will shine straight down and a tiny bit to the sides. If you are illuminating for function, you will need much more than a few strip lights. Wall washers can add an extra dimension to a comprehensive kitchen lighting plan.

LED tape lights would certainly be bright enough to illuminate the sink. Connect them to a dimmer.

If using low-voltage tape lights, you'll need to connect them to a transformer.

I'd make sure the tape lights didn't shine out the window. You could install them in a channel or even route a channel into the window trim (and drill a hole for the wire) for them.

If there are no cabinets to which to attach tape lights, perhaps you could attach sconces to the wall that would shine down onto countertops and highlight the walls' texture. Or, if possible, use shallow recessed lights above the countertops that are adjacent to walls as well as those that aren't.

-- amateur

we need more pictures and more description please.

It might be a good idea to look into LED light strips. Those should at least help some.

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