![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This matches pretty well whenever the overhead lights are on and it’s bright to cloudy day outside, and likely because of the grey-ish countertops it still looks fine when they are the only lights on. After buying strips of both 4000K and 6000K of to test, we ended up with some strips listed as Cool White 6000K. In the kitchen we have daylight (5000K) colored lights, but as the under-cabinet lighting is likely to be used as more of a night or secondary light, I figured on ~4000K lights. I had originally thought of ringing the underside of each cabinet with LED strip lights, but after some consideration I decided to do a single light assembly along the front edge of each cabinet, pointing down, with a wide-angle diffuser. Our kitchen has three overhead cabinet groupings, the left-most has 22″ of face, the corner has 37″ of face (2x 10″ side cabinets and 1x 17″ center cabinet), and the right-most is a single 10″ cabinet. This has worked out well, so I wanted to share what I did. ![]() What I ended up doing was sourcing a handful of parts, flexible PCB LED strips, aluminum enclosures, wire, and wall wart power supplies on Amazon, assembling it, and sticking it to the underside of the cabinets. After talking with my friend Dan and some investigating, I finally got a solution together. This winter, looking for a project, I decided to finally get this done. Being low voltage with the outlets and switch already fitted, it would be fairly straightforward later on. The electrician had fitted an outlet per cabinet grouping, and a switch on the wall that toggles those outlets, but I’d asked him to skip the lights because I really wasn’t sure what style or color we wanted, nor how I wanted to wire things. After the kitchen was redone in our new house, the under-cabinet space (where lights would go) was intentionally left unpopulated something for me to finish later. ![]()
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