LED Strips: a Guide

including an essential shopping list for dimmable, warm white perfection

This is the second post in a two-part series about how to achieve the perfect floating shelf with an embedded LED strip, though this info applies to all LED strips! You can find the first post, which goes into excrutiating detail about the shelf, here.

As I wrote in my last post about floating shelves, kitchen lighting is absolutely key and so easy to get wrong. I planned to run a floating shelf the length of the kitchen specifically so I could embed a hidden LED light strip in it for proper task lighting. The shelf + LED strip combination is the result of a lot of research and asking for help and the result is, well, exactly what we needed.

To find out everything you need to know about designing and achieving this kind of floating shelf, this is the post for you. If you're here for the LED strip chat, keep reading :)

The LED strip is the best bit of lighting in our kitchen. It’s nearly invisible, it’s demure, it’s dimmable, warm white, and delightful in all ways.