What are LED strip lights?
LED strip lights which are also known as LED tape lights are flexible circuit boards on a roll which can be stuck almost anywhere. At any place where you want to add extra lighting or want more brightness, you can add LED light strips.
Advantages of LED strip lights
Cut to length–LED strip lights come in a long roll, and it comes with the option of cutting these strips every few inches, which is really useful as it is not necessary that we want to put the entire strip light in one place.
Flexible–Being flexible in nature, LED lights are really easy to be bent over the edges or corners as they can be easily bent to over 90 degrees.
Colour options – LEDs are generally manufactured with the option of emitting a variety of colours, multiple shades of a single colour and even colour changing options are provided, which lets you change the colour of the light whenever you wish.
Low profile – These LED strip lights are very thin, so they can be installed even in tight spaces very easily, hidden from the view of people. With less thickness, only the light effect will be visible, not the source of light.
Added protection – These LED strip lights can be given additional environmental protection by making them dust resistant and waterproof. This adds to their life and also makes cleaning easy.
Fully dimmable – These decorative LED lightings come with full control in your hand as you can easily dim the light or make it bright according to your convenience using the remote.
Customizable – Another feature which makes LEDs more desirable among people is that LEDs can be customized according to your need, desire and the place where you are planning to put them. You can customize brightness, colours, length, width, voltage etc., and many more features of the LED strip light.
Ideas to decorate your home using LED strip lights
Using LED strip lights for home decoration or to enhance the lighting of the home has become very common. There are several places in the home where you can put these LED lights in a lot of ways to make your home look more beautiful.
Some of the places where you can put these decorative LED lighting in your home are-
Ceiling
Adding these lights to the ceiling of any room of your home can help you highlight the architectural marvels of your place, and it also makes the ambience really pretty. This can give your home a modern look and also make your work less towards decorating your place for parties. With these lights on your ceiling, your house is always going to be party-ready.
Stairs –
One of the best benefits of installing these lights below the stair railing or underneath the tread is that they make it easier to find the stairs at night without having to switch on those bright lights and wake you up.
Mirror –
Decorating your dressing room by putting these lights on the backside of the mirror provides a soft glow to the room and also gives you bright, even lighting to help you get ready for perfect pictures.
Furniture –
These strip lights can be added under your furniture, like sofa, armchairs and tables, to add extra lighting to that area and a soft decorative glow to the entire room.
Under cabinets and in drawers –
Installing these lights in your kitchen cabinets, as well as drawers can enhance the appearance of your room.
Backlighting –
Adding these lights to the backside of picture frames, TV screens and even on the bedside gives an amazingly beautiful effect and also makes the set-up look so cool.
These lights can be added anywhere in your house, and they will give a completely new look to your home.