Lighting a Full Staircase, Tread by Tread
Lighting a full staircase means putting light onto every step from the bottom riser to the top landing, either as one run along the stringer or as a segment at...
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Lighting a full staircase means putting light onto every step from the bottom riser to the top landing, either as one run along the stringer or as a segment at...
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A backlit bathroom mirror is held off the wall on a cleat with LED strip on its back face, so light spills around all four edges and the glass appears...
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A cove lighting build hides a strip inside a ledge or trough so the ceiling becomes the light source and no fixture is visible. Two decisions settle the result before...
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An under-cabinet lighting build takes a kitchen from a tape measure held under the wall cabinets to an evenly lit, dimmable counter with the driver hidden but reachable. The work...
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Wire for later expansion whenever phase two would sit behind a finished surface, and commit to a single phase when it would not. Whether you do it in one phase...
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Cut-anywhere earns its place when the work is made of short fixed lengths that stop at an edge somebody looks at: shelves, niches, display cases, treads, a cabinet run ending...
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Buy the spare with the original order whenever a future repair would sit in the same sightline as the rest of the run. Reorder later when it would not, or...
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Put the driver as close to the strip as an accessible, ventilated, correctly rated position allows. That is the default because the low voltage leg between driver and tape is...
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Feed one end when your finished length sits inside what that exact strip publishes for a single feed. Feed both ends when it does not, or when a bench test...
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One RGB plus CCT strip, when color and white are both accent layers and they need to come from the same line. Two separate strips, when the white is the...
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If somebody standing where people actually stand can see both ends of the run at once, light the whole perimeter. If the run turns a corner and leaves the sightline,...
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Depth does more of the work. Setting the emitters further back from the diffusing surface gives neighboring beams room to overlap before they arrive, and that overlap is what smooths...
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