Cool light or warm light LED ceiling light for kitchen

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I have just had my kitchen ceiling in my tiny Victorian attic kitchen re-plastered as the old ceiling was badly cracked. The builder has taken down the hideous strip light that was installed before I moved in and so now I have to buy a light fitting. Because the room is so tiny with a slanting wall /ceiling and a large window that dominates most of one wall, I am thinking of a similar LED light to the one pictured as it is unobtrusive and won't flicker. The light fitting is too close to another wall to have anything fancy or eye-catching so I think simplicity is probably best.

I don't know whether to go for a warm white or a cool white which are the only options in the Philips range or how bright it needs to be. I don't want a dazzling 'floodlight' effect but I need to be able to see what I am doing.

The ceiling will be white, the walls will be painted in Crown Almond Cream kitchen paint, the kitchen cupboards are white as are my fridge/freezer and cooker.

I know this sounds lame but the more lights I am looking at, the more confused I am getting.

Is cool white better for a kitchen and how many lumens should I be looking at for a tiny room? Also, I need it to be cost-effective as don't have lots of money to splash.

Can you get a Philips hue light so you can adjust the colour temp?

We also have some supplementary lights that are 4000k, which is a "slightly cool" colour that works day or night.

1200lm is about 100 watts equivalent. So 1200-1600lm would give you a good working light if well placed.

As mentioned, I'd definitely go for cool white in a kitchen, however, if you do get an integrated LED ceiling light, then once the LEDs fail, you will have to replace the whole light and not just the bulbs. Why not go for one with replaceable bulbs and use smart bulbs which can be controlled by Alexa or an app so you can change the brightness or LED colour to suit. This one takes two LED bulbs so can be nice and bright and also won't have to be changed once the LEDs fail...
https://www.universal-lighting.co.uk/products/cheese-small-flush-opal-glass-bathroom-ceiling-2-light-satin-silver/

Warm.
2700 kelvin is the same colour/warmth as old incandescent bulbs. 2700 is known as very warm white and I’d use that in bedrooms or living rooms
3000 is warm white and that’s what I’d use in kitchen/bathroom
4000 is cool white and IMO is for offices and dentists surgeries.

Cool lighting is awful in homes. Personally, I only permit one or two cool bulbs in the house where the cool, bright light is necessary (e.g. for a bathroom mirror) but otherwise I agree with interior designers that you shouldn't go cooler than 27000k and that's for architectural spotlights etc