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At first I thought it was going to look tacky like most LED projects like this, but the corner molding made the difference. Brilliant.

Wow, nice work! Turned a pretty typical looking stairway and hall into a premium feeling environment. Almost like a theater, or a futuristic spaceship interior. With an end result like that, it's hard not to feel tempted to try this. Thanks for sharing, and for the inspiration!

A friend of mine has a similar project. The extra addon is with a raspbery pi conencted to a weather api and the colors change corralated to the current weather. :)

Wow. Some products that I didn't know existed. Thanks! Two critical comments: 1. Adding the caulk pretty much negates the use of the Command strips. If the lights are removed, the caulk will pull the paper off the drywall. 2. You are indeed programming the controller for the lights. It's all very intuitive with the controller interface, but you ARE programming. Nice result. Thanks for posting.

This is exactly the type of tutorial I’ve been looking for! Thank you for the inspiration! Going to try this next week

And I thought "I" was a stickler for perfection. Unbelievably clean job, this is beyond pro level. Thanks for sharing with us.

This looks immaculate! The attention to detail definitely takes it to another level. Worth it 1000%

Very good demonstration! I was a bit hesitant but once I saw you put up the angle board on the metal covers, it looks 100%. Great job.

I wasn't sure if I would want to do something like this with my stairs but then I realized it does add a really nice feeling at night to have that nice diffused glow. Dang it, I am gonna have to try this out.

This looks super cool. I love the effort to make led strips look more finished and refined.

So happy I came across this! Bought a house a year ago - was searching back then but couldn't find anything that's not too complicated. I lost hope and decided to do it later. I decided to search again today, and was happy to come across ur recent video. A lot of nice ideas, please keep posting!

Another great video! I think it is your attention to detail that I like the most. I have been sitting on a project to make a motion detected strip light for my stairs but haven't been able to decide how I want to do it. I really like your idea to set them against the wall and point down, then hide it with trim. I wont be using smart devices, just simple plug and play, but this gave me some great ideas to work with. Thanks!

Explained all of the process well. Including the non perfect fixes and most of all kept the whole video simple. Well done mate!!

Chris, I've seen a few of your videos now and I'm impressed at how you do the installations, produce the videos and keep the quality in the process. Blessings.

Chris, that was one of the best step by step flawless tutorials I have seen to this day. And not just the topic, but just excellent teaching & smooth flowing speaking skills.Thank you so much for sharing. I'm now a subscriber

as someone who's regularly up at 3-4AM for work a project like this seems great instead of going downstairs using my phone seems like a great thing

Your narration and explanations are always top notch. You also did a great job making it look tasteful rather than gaudy with the corner moulding Chris. I only wish you would stop finding cooler light manufacturers. I finally got around to using the last cool company and now there an even better one :p

I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time; this tutorial gave me exactly what I needed.

Those yellow grout sponges and a bucket of water do an amazing job at cleaning up caulking. They make a rookie look like a professional.

Awesome video!! Your super detailed and you gave me confidence in trying this DIY! Thanks!! 🙌🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Great video. I mounted my lights under the handrail pointing down. It lights up the entire stairway. My stairs lead to a large loft, so no hallway to worry about.

Like many have stated, this came out really nice. Calking and painting the wood trim really brought all of that together. How high off the floor did you run the frame?

Looks amazing! Would love to try this project at home. Blessings

As always Chris an excellent and easy to understand tutorial, Thanks for your continued work and videos. I hope you are all well 👍🏻

you truely top yourself with every video you release. You are such an inspiration

Looks fantastic Great idea. Thank you for a detailed walkthrough of the whole process.

This is great, I'd asked a question about staircase lighting in a previous video and this is the solution I was looking for. Keep up the good work Chris.

Again, soo sick! We’re moving and our new house will have stairs whereas we don’t right now. I’m ABSOLUTELY doing this once we get settled in 😎 thanks dude

I wondered why anyone would get excited about a brand releasing a product then realised I have those sensors all over my house and I love how easy they integrate with home assistant. That's my Xmas wishlist sorted!

Great job!!! Thank you for taking the time to post the process and end results. You too be blessed!!!

absolutely LOVE IT, turned out really well. it is a result of exactly what I am trying to do. The height above the floor is perfect.

Top tip: when caulking, keep a sanitizer bucket of warm water with you to keep your fingers wet and to dissolve excess caulk (non-silicone only). Use blue shop towels as well, and for that run you should be able to get away with only using two shop towels.

Bro.....STOP GIVING ME PROJECTS!!!!! 😂 Another great video, thank you for posting.

This is so kewl! This is night light upgrade 3.0. Lol. And love how you can connect end pieces fluidly. No gaps at 2:15. That was my biggest deal breaker in terms of using such lighting around or under items. I'm glad this company found a solution to that problem other companies haven't fixed yet.

This corner molding finished this project nicely. Very cool

I have not seen another install on UKposts that placed the lights where you did. I like yours better than all the others because there's no glare. Super easy on the eyes, especially at night when it's needed and the illumination is where it's most needed. No hot spots. Cleaning and vacuuming the floor will not be impeded.

FYI, those Command strips are only "removeable" if you can access the pull-tab for removal. They will tear up your walls like any other foam tape without that.

U have a blessed day 🙏. Thank you for your time and effort to help make DIY work ez

That really looks well at night,perfect because my vision isn't so good,I was thinking of individual lamps,but after looking at you finished product,it's just what I need,thank you for you video💯👍

I tend to use the recently introduced LED cob strip's nowadays. ( Chip on board). The light is far more uniform almost like a continuous neon strip, no light and dark spots, very neat, diffuser is optional ,I tend to run just as a strip, it blends into staircase edges seamlessly. Various led count per metre available as is voltage, 12 and 24v. I use 12v in all my projects to keep everything uniform as most controllers, passive, infra red, etc all tend to use 12v. The colour range is pretty extensive, besides white, cool, warm and standard, blues red purples, green and more. The blue looks stunning on stairs, landing and newels. I buy everything direct, I know all the proper LED specialist manufacturers now who supply such as Amazon and the UK lighting industry so I can save a great dealing direct. As an indication I pay around £8 ( $10 US) for a 5 metre length of COB LED which I think is reasonable.

Not gonna lie, thought it was gonna look really stupid, but this looks amazing. So much I'm probably gonna do it. Great video

Awesome video as always. A good idea with the caulking is a length of masking tape run your finger through it then peel the tape off I recently tried it and it gives a really nice finish. You've given me many good ideas to try thank you for your content

This came out very nicely. I may do something similar for the stairs in my home. Thank you for sharing!

Looks like a great project and good inspiration 👌🏼 I was wondering if it's possible with this setup to program the light strip in a way, when the top motion sensor is activated, that the lights on the top floor light up and the lights on the stairs light up in a motion (from top to bottom)? And the other way around, so when the bottom motion sensor is activated, the stairs are lighted up first (from bottom to top) and then the upper floor?

Very cool video, well filmed and easy to follow! Thanks for taking the time to put this together!

Your home is turning into a futuristic sci-fi home! Looks fantastic!

You have been the only channel that I have found that has consistent uploads regarding LEDs and how to set them up and install them. I was so intimidated by wleds and knew nothing about them. Thanks to your channel, I'm now considering a whole house setup lol

Nice job, but I would have used the caulk on the skirting aswell to fill the gaps you have👍

To turn off the LED strip that's better to use single automation with both top motion sensor AND bottom motion sensor detect no motion. And to turn it on use the single automation with both top motion sensor OR bottom motion sensor detect motion.

Wow! So cool. You did an great job installing and setting up the lights. The wife and I have been thinking about doing the same. Thanks for sharing this video.

That was awesome. Been wanting to do something for my stairs.

For sure doing this to my stairs... Maybe this weekend lol

You could have done the same thing to the baseboards (gaps) w/ caulk, but good job overall man.

Damn this guy is nice , and has some it of the best explanations and walk throughs on UKposts !!!!! I'm subbed twice to you Chris on two accounts , and now I'm starting the build . Thankyou ever so much 😁👍💯 Cheers from Australia

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the videos. I did your Govee loutdoor lights and now I needed this.

This man is insane

Chris! This is exactly the project we were wanting your help with! Our question is how would you get LEDs to light up as you walk up the stairs?

Just found your channel. Great work. Thank you for all the detailed info!

What a good looking nicely executed project. What a great system, I was lost with the myriad of LEDs, you introduced me to features I didn’t know to look for

I have to say, cutting channels like these to size was a huge pain when going around corners when I did a gapless installation myself. Additionally the usage of 5V LEDs made the voltage drop very apparent, so I had to splice power in at 4 separate points along my 20m stretch. End result is really nice though and I do recommend the Muzata diffusers as they look super nice

That's EXACTLY my same hallway and landing (small window and all) that was in my house that I just sold. Thank you for sharing this! 🥲

Chris this looks so great! As a tip you can also use spackle instead of caulking. Much more friendly should you need to take off the channels at any point. Keep up the great work!

Very nice solution to an issue I've been wanting to address for quite a while. Very well explained too.

Totally doing this when I buy my first home. Looks great !!

Another great video, Chris! Have you considered trying out Home Assistant? With this, you can control all your Govee, WLED, and Aqara devices from one interface as well as to setup automations to control the lights based on time, sun position, or triggers from third party devices (motion sensors, door sensors, luminance sensors, etc). I've been running it a couple years and have a lot of my LED accent lights setup with the Adaptive Lighting add-on so that the brightness and color temperature adjusts with the position of the sun throughout the day and into the night as well as being manually controlled with a mix of Zigbee and Z-wave battery powered/mains powered wall switches and scene controllers. The reason why I initially set up Home Assistant in the first place was the annoying practice of having to turn on my Govee immersion lights manually every time I turned on the TV and having to use multiple apps to control everything. It'd probably be some good content for the channel!

Bro imagine a ghost walking through the staircase at night . 😂😂🤣🤣

Love this and thank you for sharing. Very detailed tutorial and I can’t wait to be able to do this in my home. The possibilities are endless.

Very neat setup. Makes my single stair strip look a mess. I've got some work to do!

now go back and caulk the skirting boards, savage

That looks really nice! I was t sure when I seen u was putting it up further on the wall but I really like it.. it’s almost like a chair rail

So cool and it came out great looking. I 100 percent want to try this.

Caulk THEN Paint

looks great. I have that exact carpet color. I am going to try this one.

Dude… project is insane! 💯 awesome vid as always!

I've been breaking my head how to do this for my stairs. Hopefully it I will go as smooth as you made it seem thank you

Looks fantastic. Nice job 👏

Using this exact setup for when in finish my basement. This is awesome.

It looks high-end. Great job!

Clean job!! Looks awesome!

Bruh! One of your best ones yet... Keep the inspiration coming, thank you 👏

Wow this looks really nice! I want to do this in my garage.

Excellent job, been thinking of doing this down 5-6 steps to my lower split level movie room and then up to the mid-wall ledge where the exterior foundation and ground wall meet. However, my OCD focused on the lack of caulk on the existing trim. 😂 It made it worse when you did a beautiful job with the lights but still had the existing gap. This is why my wife hates my projects! lol I would have found a way to over complicate or add on more work for myself. 🥺

That was an awesome project! Nicely Done!

Loved this tutorial! So well done!

yes, i always geek up too when a company i've never heard of makes a product for the first time

God blessed you with a talent, amazing!

I hope you have a blessed day too 😊🙏

I like this idea, you could always find the studs and pre drill/screw through this to make it more permanent

Great work as always! I want to do something like this, but want to put the light between the stairs stringer and the baseboard.

Amazing! Nice job. I want to do this. Maybe in the kitchen under the bottom cabinets so it lights the floor like yours does here.

Looks really clean!

Awesome video on motion-activated stairs lighting! You should also give Nanoleaf a try for some cool home lighting enhancements!

The LED master. Really excellent video. The end result is amazing.

No way someone can watch this and not subscribe! Great video!

Great instructional video. Thank you.

I have the Aqara app running the Radiator valves and room temp sensors. This is perfect as I can now add aqara lighting and door handles to group all together with app to use.

This is top notch explenation and DIY tutorial. If I wanted to do something like this I would have opted for routing that wooden handrail and inserting aluminium housing beneath it with LED facing downwords.

Great video well thought out. I went a little more DIY then this though. I have been a automation person for a good while and have set up Home Assistant for home automation. About a year ago i got into making my own sensors for it by using a HA add-on called ESPHome. So i did something similar like what you did except used WLED which HA supports natively and a couple of sensors i made using ESP32's and time of flight sensor called a VL53L0X, this uses infrared pulses which makes the sensor extremely accurate so the LED's only come on exactly when you put your foot on the first step. This is needful for me as we pass right next to the stairs on the way to the kitchen all the time.

Super nice final details on that. Gives me an idea to cover up some aluminum track I have exposed with some wood veneer/strips that’ll make it loo way better. Thanks!