"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
09/12/2016 at 14:43 • Filed to: houselopnik
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"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
09/12/2016 at 14:43 • Filed to: houselopnik | 0
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LED household lighting question below. Boat + dog for your time.
So, this is totally off-topic I know, but I know there are some Handy Hanks on here so I thought I’d ask. I know someone is even currently remodeling (his?) kitchen, ttyymmnn(??)
Anyway, to the point: Does anyone have experience with interior LED light strips? Like these:
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I have a post-and-beam house with a wood ceiling, but not a vaulted ceiling. I am thinking about mounting the LED strips to a small strip of wood along the side of the beam near the bottom. So the LED strip would be on the top of the wood strip, pointing up, bouncing light off the ceiling.
Basically I have no idea if it would be bright enough, or if I would have to put a strip on both sides of every beam, or how I would even set up power to all of these strips without voltage drop/brightness issues... that I can figure out, though. Anyway, I’m curious if any of you have experience.
The area I’m looking at is 32' x 12' and has beams going across the 12' span about every 2 feet, so there are about 16 beams. Right now I have track-mounted lights on the ceiling between every other beam, but only on half the span; the other half is the kitchen which is what we’re tearing up, hence the change in the first place.
This is more or less what it looks like now (but not the kitchen)!
TysMagic
> functionoverfashion
09/12/2016 at 14:48 |
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I have a strip like that on top of our kitchen cabinets that can be an assortment of colors for some fun mood lighting and stuff. I don’t think they’d be bright enough to really provide usable light, but that’s just me.
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functionoverfashion
> TysMagic
09/12/2016 at 14:53 |
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Interesting... I ordered a set like the one in the picture for under-cabinet lighting, and just to play around with. Mine is just single color (warm white 2700k), we’ll see.
The track lighting is.. ok. It sits flush with the bottom of our beams, so it’s basically like recessed lighting (cans) but without the drop ceiling. Looking for a way to provide light where the source isn’t directly visible.
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TysMagic
> functionoverfashion
09/12/2016 at 14:54 |
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I would think under cabinet where the source is close to the object being lit, they would work well. However I’d love to see it done and see how it looks/works!
shop-teacher
> functionoverfashion
09/12/2016 at 15:00 |
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That’s an interesting idea. I have no idea if it’ll work or not. I do know that if you do it, make sure the ceiling between the beams is painted white.
Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch
> functionoverfashion
09/12/2016 at 15:01 |
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You might be a little short on light output, but I’d also be wary of glare. With unshielded lights close to the bottom of the beams it may be pretty harsh.
Tekamul
> functionoverfashion
09/12/2016 at 15:07 |
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With LED strips, you fall into 1 of two categories. Either not bright enough, or bright enough that you don’t want them undiffused above your eye line.
Those look to be very low wattage, so probably choice A. You can overcome by putting down lots of strips, but it may begin to look a little rough unless you are very careful about alignment.
BorkBorkBjork
> functionoverfashion
09/12/2016 at 15:12 |
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My experience with LED lighting has been very good. I would say that, since these light strips can be had for pretty cheap, I would just buy a small strip and try them out yourself. If you’re going to do several dozen feet of these strips, then I would not worry about brightness. You will have a huge amount of indirect light.
By the way, I googled Boat Dog and found this:
ttyymmnn
> functionoverfashion
09/12/2016 at 15:48 |
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Sorry, but I have no experience with that. We are getting can lights in the ceiling for our kitchen remodel, but I may still go incandescent. As a photographer, I dislike LED. It screws up the color spectrum.
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functionoverfashion
> ttyymmnn
09/12/2016 at 21:37 |
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I’m using these LED flood bulbs in the lights in the living room (which makes up the other ~ half of the 32' x 12' space. Fully dimmed they’re pretty nice, and when you want a LOT of light, you got it. Not a bad color, but yeah not the same as incandescent. BUT, I can have all 8 on full brightness and it’s like, 64 watts.
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functionoverfashion
> Tekamul
09/12/2016 at 21:37 |
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Well, ideally these wouldn’t be visible at all from below. They’d be in a notch in the wood strip. I am going to have to try it, I think.
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functionoverfashion
> BorkBorkBjork
09/12/2016 at 21:39 |
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That’s my plan exactly, I think the only way to know is to try it. I can always order the same as I have in the rest of the space, I know I generally like it. I think ideally if the LED strip worked, I’d change over the whole space... yay project creep!
And yeah, WTF is that video. Now I’m going to have that boooaatt doooggg in my head for days, thanks!
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functionoverfashion
> TysMagic
09/12/2016 at 21:41 |
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I think it will work well there... I am just wondering if I can get it to work for the rest of the space? We’ll see. It’s basically 1/2 - 2/3 of my house on one floor, where we spend all our time. I’m willing to go a long way and spend good money to make it exactly the way I want, because we’re not moving.
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functionoverfashion
> shop-teacher
09/12/2016 at 21:51 |
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Ha! Well... yeah about that. It’s not exactly white, it’s a mid-tone rough sawn wood. So I’m hoping that the typical harsh LED light will be “warmed” by the mid-toned ceiling... but probably it will be too dark? We’ll see.
I’m sitting right there now, so I’d take a picture, but it’s dark out and the only source of light is... you guessed it! On the ceiling, so, pointless.
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shop-teacher
> functionoverfashion
09/12/2016 at 21:55 |
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If you decide to try it, I’ll be really curious to see how it turns out.