Ways to use LED strip for interior decor

One of the current trends is the decoration of apartments with LED threads. LED strip in the interior of the room is a solution that combines beauty with utility. It will help to focus only on the right areas, to illuminate the farthest corners. The ability to change colors and adjust the brightness gives you more options to create the right lighting.

Benefits of using

The main plus of LED backlighting is that it can be used to illuminate even the most remote corners of the room. Also, LED strip has a number of other advantages:

1. A variety of colors allows you to choose the backlight to match the shade of the walls or ceiling.
2. Some tapes have a color change mode using the remote control. Due to this, you can radically change the interior.
3. The flexibility of the tape allows you to give it any desired shape and hang it along the contour of a curved niche, arch.
4. The tape can give both directional and diffused light.
5. LED-backlight does not emit radiation that harms the eyesight, and does not overheat the surface, normally "gets along" with stretch and suspended ceilings.
6. Tape adds beauty and style to a room.

Typically, LED strip lighting is insulated with a special waterproof coating, so that it can be hung without problems in the bathroom and rooms with high humidity.

There are no noticeable drawbacks with LED strips. Unless, over time, the brightness of the diodes begins to decrease, but this is inevitable.

Ideas for decorating individual zones in the house with LED strip

Often, tape lighting is used to accent individual small areas, interior items, and furniture. Some interesting ideas for using LED strip in the interior:

1. Stairs. In private homes, the "owner" of the LED strip often becomes a staircase. In addition to aesthetics, it helps to walk up the stairs in the dark.
   You can decorate the staircase with lighting in several ways: built into the railing, installed on each step or only on some, run along the entire length of the stairs.
2. Walls. By highlighting the walls, you can influence the visual perception of the room: change the height, add space, emphasize only certain areas.
3. Curtains. One of the current trends is highlighting curtains. In addition to visually increasing the area of ​​​​the room, this gives the effect of penetration of sunlight during the daytime.
   The most rational solution is to place the LED strip in a niche with a cornice.
4. Furniture. Sofa, armchair, shelf, table legs - these and other items can be illuminated to create a cozy, relaxing atmosphere in the room. And the effect of "flight" will give the interior fantastic.

Idea. If you place the backlight on a glass shelf, you can achieve the effect of shining overflows.

Advice. Decorate a picture or photo on the wall with LED tape - this way they will always attract attention.

Decoration of individual rooms

Hallway

LED lighting will be an excellent additional lighting for the hallway. To a person entering the house from the street, the hallway will seem visually larger than it really is. The most suitable places for decorating with LED strip in the hallway are:

1. Doorway. Interesting, but not the most popular way. So the hosts immediately demonstrate to each guest creativity and ingenuity. The main thing is not to overdo it with brightness, so that it doesn’t blind you from the threshold. It is necessary to choose LEDs with soft light. There are three decor options: on top of the door, along the side walls, around the entire door portal.
2. plinth. The backlight is attached to the floor plinth. For this purpose, it is worth purchasing special skirting boards that have a groove for the tape. So it will be securely isolated. Without insulation on the baseboard LED lighting, it will be difficult to carry out wet cleaning.
   This is what the plinth looks like with backlight.
3. Niches in the walls. A good place for LED lighting in the hallway is niches in the walls, if any. The tape is hung inside the niche around the perimeter.
4. Mezzanine. Putting the LED strip on the mezzanine is a rational solution. Firstly, it will not take up extra space, and secondly, it will illuminate the most distant corners of the mezzanines.

Idea. Make a sensor on the backlight so that the light turns on when the mezzanine door is opened.

Advice. The combination of multi-colored lighting and a mirror in a niche will create a genuine extravaganza.

Living room

LED lighting in the hall has one main task - to give a soft, relaxing light that creates a calm atmosphere, as opposed to overhead lighting. At the same time, the tape should serve as a floor lamp when reading, writing, needlework, that is, everything should be clearly visible. In the hallway, LED strips are usually mounted on floor plinths, walls and a niche under the eaves, rarely on the ceiling. You can additionally decorate individual zones:

• around or near the TV;
• near the picture, photograph;
• wall shelves;
• coffee table;
• arch;
• Column.

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Bedroom

The use of LED lighting in the bedroom should be kept to a minimum. The first thing that comes to mind is decorating the bed. The tape is hung from the bottom of the bed, creating the effect that the bed does not stand on the ground, but hangs in the air.

Looks like the bed is about to start flying.

In addition, the LED strip can replace wall lamps and help with reading or needlework. You can decorate a mirror, a cornice, but not a ceiling: a downward light for a bedroom is inappropriate.

Idea. If the bedroom turns into a balcony or loggia, it is worth installing LED lighting there. This will give the atmosphere of the bedroom mystery.

Kitchen

When decorating a kitchen, LED strip combines aesthetic and practical functions. You can hang it in different parts of the kitchen:

• above the table or around its circumference;
• on hanging and sliding cabinets;
• on the refrigerator;
• on the kitchen clock.

For decorative purposes, you can place the ribbon on a shelf with transparent glasses, shot glasses. If the kitchen has a low ceiling, LED lighting placed on top of a wall cabinet will make the room visually higher.

Related video: LED kitchen lighting.

In the toilet and bathroom

The role of LED strip in bathroom design is great. There is not enough space there, so you need to create good and at the same time appropriate lighting. Cold white light will definitely not be like that. It is necessary to use warm or neutral. The most obvious solution is to hang an LED filament on a mirror. Sometimes mirrors are sold that are already equipped with an LED strip, but they cost a lot, so it's better to put this puzzle together piece by piece.

It would also be appropriate to highlight the bath at the bottom along the perimeter and along the ceiling. If you turn off the main light source, an additional one is enough for an unobtrusive relaxing atmosphere. Now it is considered popular to decorate with the help of LED-thread sinks and toilets.

An ordinary toilet bowl with the help of LEDs can be turned into a masterpiece.

It will look even more impressive on hanging plumbing, cabinets, wall shelves.

Important. LED lighting in the bathroom should be insulated as reliably as possible, because the degree of humidity is very high.

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When is it appropriate to change colors and brightness

LED lighting is chosen for the design of the apartment, and not vice versa: it is important not to forget this. In some interiors (classic, country) LED filaments will not look at all, while in others (minimalism, hi-tech) it is difficult to do without them. In the bedroom, nursery, hallway, it is better to use the backlight of the same color, but in the kitchen, in the bathroom, in the living room, you can safely experiment with different colors. Additionally, dimming (changing the brightness of the glow) is useful.With it, you can both reduce or increase the brightness, and focus on certain elements of the interior, such as columns. In the bedroom, you can gradually reduce the brightness to a level that is comfortable for sleeping, and in the kitchen, with the help of a dimmer, the mood is created for a romantic dinner or a fun holiday with guests.