Where to put LED strip lights

LED strip lights offer numerous possibilities for enhancing your home – and they don’t have to be limited to your indoor space. Here are a variety of places you can use LED strip lights to highlight your home’s best features.

Installing LED strip lights in the ceiling coving of any space in your home is a convenient and inexpensive way to elevate your ceiling and highlight architectural details. Create a warm welcome in your entryway or create more dazzle in your entertaining areas such as the dining room and living room.

LED strip lights can be added to stairs below the railings or underneath the tread. This provides an easy, yet sleek way to navigate the stairs at night without having to turn on bright overhead lighting.

Backlighting a mirror with LED strip lights is an evolution of the traditional large vanity mirror bulbs. By creating a soft, even glow, it limits shadows and helps you look your best.

More fun than functional, adding LED strip lights under your furniture adds a unique glow to any room and can help a small space appear larger. Try it under the sofa to create ambience in the living room, under tables in the dining room to dial up your next dinner party, or under beds to help with the kids’ bedtime routine.

Placing LED strip lights on shelves can help showcase your favorite collectibles, artwork, and books in an aesthetically pleasing way. It can also make it easier to find items in dark closets, cupboards, and pantries. Don’t want the hassle of turning the lights on and off? Motion-activated LED strip lights are another great way to incorporate light to these spaces.

Much like shelves, adding LED strip lights under and in your kitchen or bathroom cabinets, as well as drawers, can enhance the appearance of your space.

Tip: Under cabinet lighting can also function as task lighting, and will make your cabinets and surface areas easier to work on.

By adding LED strip lights to the back of an existing frame or creating your own out of plexiglass, you can enhance your photos, prints, and artwork and make them stand out even more. The lightstrips are designed with safety in mind and come with a premium silicone sleeve. So the LEDs emit minimal heat and allows you to interact with the strip light comfortably.

In addition to backlighting your bathroom mirror, you can also add relaxing, low-light ambience to your bathroom with the soft illumination of LED strip lights along the rim of your sink or the bottom of your bathtub.

Did you know that placing LED strip lights on the back of your TV screens and computer monitors can help prevent eye strain by offsetting the brightness? Protect your eyes while creating an immersive ambience in your living room and game room.

LED strip lights can also be used outside. Just make sure they’re properly rated for the environmental conditions they will be exposed to. Look for IP 65 or higher in areas where they will be splashed, rained on, or exposed to dust and dirt. Otherwise, they can be placed anywhere within reach of an outlet, including railings, stair treads, pathways, decks, patio furniture, and more.