The LED technology used in LED strips makes them super energy efficient. They use almost % less energy than traditional light forms like incandescent bulbs. Thus you can use LED strips for lighting the stairs of both residential and commercial areas. Turning them for a long time will not put a heavy burden on your electricity bills. Besides, these fixtures don’t overheat or produce harmful gasses like mercury. So, LED strips are also an environmentally-friendly lighting option. 

When lighting the stair walls with LED strips, most of us target the top or upper portion of the wall. But you can go differently. Instead of mounting the strips at the top of the sidewalls, go for the bottom part. Line the stripes along the wall following the decile step of the stairs. This will give a unique and aesthetic look to your staircase. Besides, if you have brick walls, this will also work great to highlight the textures. 

If you have such transparent stairs in your house, lighting up in this way would blow the mind of visitors. And your guest won’t be able to take their eyes off these stairs. Thus it will highlight your stair area and build a statement for your entire indoor decoration. However, this magical effect can also be brought to the stairs of commercial spaces to boost engagement. For instance, in restaurants, glass stair lighting can be a major attraction for photogenic customers. 

Once you have sized the LED strips to your desired length, lay out the LED strips, connectors, channels, wirings, and other parts. In this case, you must keep the polarity of all the elements accurate to ensure continuous current flow through the strips, connectors, and power source. The lights will only glow if the polarity is ok. So, arrange the parts so that the positive ends meet the positive and the negative ends meet the negative. 

Add colorful LED strips to your stair ceiling to bring more fun to your staircase. In this regard, RGB LED strips are your ultimate choice. You can add these strips as cove lighting or create geometrical patterns in the stair ceiling using aluminum channels. Such a colorful stair-ceiling ambiance would be perfect for a hotel, motel, bar, pub, etc. Besides, you can go for DIY ideas to use these flexible strips and bring life to your stair space ㅡ