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Recessed lights, high hat lights, pot lights - whatever you want to call them.
It's a dark room being used as our office. And my night vision sucks. I think there is accessible attic space above the ceiling.
Recessed lighting makes sense because:
The room has one electric ceiling outlet where we've installed an ceiling fan with lights. The lighting is totally inadequate (and the style of the fan is outdated.) We've explored options including desk lamps and floor lamps, none of which were particularly good solutions. A new, in-style ceiling fan is going to have one, single downlight. My head will be in the way and create a shadow on the desktop. Replacing the fan with chandelier type fixture would fix the problem, but we'd HATE losing the fan.
I'm resistant to recessed lighting because I'm assuming it's expensive (and yes, I'd want a licensed electrician for this job.) Any guesstimates???
So slightly in the same vein as office/desktop lighting. I had a similar problem that I resolved by getting a monitor light-bar that sits on the top of my monitor. It's been great as it focuses the light downward onto my desk area where I need it and the light is adjustable with just a few taps. Helps a lot at reducing my eye strain when the room gets darker over the course of the day. They also make a model that has a dial control that sits on your desk itself.
Related to this specific question, we had 2 recessed lights put in back in 2018 by ARC Electric. Total cost w/ a new switch to control them was about $1k. It was around $175 per can, $250 for the switch/runs, and around $350 for labor. Note that we didn't have attic access to do this and it required some creative fishing thru the ceiling of our kitchen.
We had some added to our kitchen a few years ago. One was easy because there was a pre existing fixture the other was from scratch. I think Mikes estimate is about right. You also have to think about LED v regular. The housing is different.
This is a pretty easy job for a licensed electrician.
This post is to offer a different approach to lighting your office.
IMHO can lights are well-suited for task lighting. Cans provide good light, each focused on a limited area. For an office you might do better with area lighting to illuminate the entire room evenly.
We have a combo ceiling fan and chandelier. It’s called a fandelier and it puts out tons of light. The breeze from the fan is amazing as well.
It looks like most of them top out at 42" for the fan. To me, that is much too small unless it is a very small room.
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