

Hi Kari,
You are correct we do place lighting 24″ off the wall. This is because you base cabinets typically fall around 24″. By placing the light 24″ off the wall that helps to prevent any for of shadowing happening when in the kitchen working. Sorry for the confusion on that. Hope this helps clarify.
Thanks for reading!
Danielle
What about for cabinets of different depth? Do you cater to the depth of the cabinet so 12″ away from the cabinet or is it more important for recessed lighting to be in a straight line.
Honestly I think the truly depends on the space. For example if you have a refrigerator and then a cabinet over the top of that we would absolute move the lighting outward because we wouldn’t want it to shadow and it would be lost if we didn’t pull it out.
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Good tip, thanks!
Thank you so much!