I am sold on Monorail lighting, it really can be the show piece of a room, as well as offer some very useful directional light. Pendant lights as well as directional head lights work wonderfully mixed together in a monorail situation.

When planning for Monorail in a kitchen think about where lighting is needed, and also think about ceiling heights.

A regular 8' ceiling height would be too low for monorail in the middle of the room, but would work well along an island, or peninsula. If an island is on a curve monorail can be bent to match the bend in the countertop evenly dropping the pendants down.

Ceilings higher than 8' are a great chance to use monorail as the all purpose lighting in a room. Monorail can bend or angle into any shape that fits a room to catch all the places light is needed. From pendants over the island to countertop directional lighting to general room lighting.

If just starting out with monorail there is a good store at monorail-lighting.net that has lots of guides to help plan out a monorail design.

Just because monorail is low voltage doesn't mean that it puts out low amounts of light. Monorail transformers can usually be dimmed with an electronic low voltage dimmer.