Our customer Wallace recently sent us pictures of an installation he made on a staircase in his home. In addition to needing light so he can get safely up and down, it seems he needed the style and pizazz of color-changing LEDs! So instead of just white or some other single color LED strip, he went with RGB lights. Here’s what he had to say:
“I wanted to share my latest project with you that I’m so proud of. My stairs before the project had no light whatsoever, thus making it difficult to climb up or down. After researching for creative ways to light my stairs, I happened upon your site and was so glad I did. I used the color changing LED strip with an RGB controller. I hid the LED strips under the stair nose, and hid the wires under the molding. It did take a while to complete all 16 steps of the stairs, but it was well worth it. I love my stairs, and the lights just brought them to a greater level.
Best regards,
Wallace”
Thanks for the photos, Wallace, they look great! And it certainly looks like getting creative was the right approach to this project. You really went beyond the bulb!
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Wallace, that is a great looking job! Your electrician did a nice job of hiding the wires. Do you have a shot of the controller under the stairs?
The controller was placed under the stairwell after working with a good electrician. All the wires are hidden under the molding. It took 10 hours to solder all the connections. It cost about 275 ion total fir the. LEDs, controller, wiring material, and adapter.
nice job!!!!! where is the controller hidden and what did it cost you in material and how long did it take you????
You can use our Flexible LED Strip Light, which is cuttable every 2 inches. So you can measure the width of your stairs and count how many you have and order the right amount of strip by the foot. If you’re comfortable soldering, you can just solder lengths of our 18/2 Lamp Wire between strip sections so that all the strips are on the same power source. If you don’t solder, you can use our Flexible LED Strip Splice Connectors, one on each end of each strip section, and you then connect the Lamp Wire sections to the Splice Connectors and seal the connections with crimp connectors, which are available at the hardware store. So the order of connection is: strip section/splice connector/lamp wire/splice connector/strip section, etc. Wallace, who did this project, hid the wires behind the moldings on either side of his stairs. Good luck and let us know if you have more questions: answers@elementalled.com.
I want to do this same type of stair, but using white lights. What all would I need? Please help.
Cool project and good execution.