LED strips are your ultimate solution to give your stairway a modern outlook. The hidden lighting effect created by LED strips brings a sophisticated look to your stairs. Installing these lights in your house stairs will add a wow effect to your interiors. Besides, for the stairs of commercial areas, like restaurants or hotels, LED strips can be a move to grab public attention. The illumination stairs can be a great spot for photogenic customers, which will play an effective marketing strategy.
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.
Layering up is essential to light up dark stairs. Start with ceiling lighting; it will give the overall ambiance to your stair area. Here you can go for cover lighting with LED strips, recessed lights, pendant lights, or even chandeliers if you have a large stair area like the duplex or triplex residential. Once you are done with general lighting, go for accent lighting. Light up the step of the stairs, sidewalls, and railings. Adding LED strips, flood lights, or spotlights highlights the wall texture. In this way, you can illuminate a dark staircase in the most effective way possible.
You can creatively experiment with LED strip patterns with a structured stair railing. For instance, installing colorful LED strips below the railings will be brilliant if you have a glass railing. You can also try DIY strip lighting to fly in your creative world. How about bringing an ombre effect by mixing different color strips Won’t it be fantastic Take blue and green LED strips and install them side by side in the lower portion of your glass railing. You will be amazed by the color combination it will bring out. This way, you can experiment with other color palettes, i.e., pair up yellow and green, red and blue- options are endless.
If you have textured side walls along the stairs, don’t skip a bit to pop it up. It could be a brick wall, stoned wall, or paperwork patterns; the option for highlighting them is endless. You can mount the LED strips in the upper walls outlining the ceiling area or the bottom wall lining the foot area. This will highlight the wall’s textures, enhancing the space’s appearance. You can also try mounting LED strips from both sides of the walls in a vertical direction. Such lighting will not only bring out the wall patterns but also create an illusion of space and make your stair area appear more prominent.