To be honest, I thought that its main function would be safety and not style or entertainment. The reality is that smart light strips can change the look and feel of your home over and over again. These color-changing strips can be installed almost anywhere in your home and allow you to use lighting effects to illuminate your space in many different ways. The expert review team at Ideaing put together a great list of what you can do with light strips.
Do you want to create the atmosphere for a romantic dinner at home? Place the strips in a warm color and see how your living room transforms with the lighting you could find in a luxury hotel. Give a party at the end of the year? Download an application that allows you to configure your smart light strips so they change color between red and green, synchronized to the rhythm of the music you are listening to at the party. If you are a fan of video games, you can set up a strip of light behind your TV and connect it to your gaming experience.
This strip changes to any color of your choice, and you can even rotate among a series of colors that you select. The strip can be set to turn on at specific times of the day, or to turn off and on depending on whether you are leaving home or returning home at the end of the day.
The possibilities of using intelligent light strips are endless, and we encourage you to find creative ways to add them to your space. These are some of the ways we have used them in our own homes
1 Kitchen Furniture
The basic idea when installing strips of light is to think of areas of your home that provides a place for the strip to be installed where the strip itself cannot be seen. The kitchen cabinets are a perfect example! The lighting under the cabinets can provide a spectacular and exclusive look to your kitchen, and you can choose from millions of color options to use as visual inspiration for your next meal.
2 Theater at home
As mentioned above, the opportunities to connect smart light strips to the media in your home are incredible. Installing a strip behind a television is a logical and high impact use of your strip. If you were going to choose just one place to install a new strip of light to test the technology, this would be a great place to start.
3 Featured decorative aspects
Any element of your home that you would like to draw attention to would also be well served by a strip of light. This electric fireplace is a perfect example, using an orange-red light that makes the “fire” even more striking. If you have a large piece of art, we also recommend that you use a strip to make it stand out.
4 Ministry of the Interior
Imagine having a potential client in your home office, and showing them a presentation on your monitor with an included light show. Using an intelligent light strip in your home office can also help with productivity. Different lights can affect your mood and focus, so adjusting your lights to a smarter way to work at times of the day when you know you’ll need to finish a lot can help you get through those extra hours.
5 Stairs
This use of the light strips reminds me of my initial reaction of “plane departure” to smart light strips! Not only does the ability to make your stairs change color look great, it has the additional advantage of making going up and down the stairs at night safer. You (and your guests) will never stumble when they go down to grab a midnight snack.
6 Bedroom
Which room inspires the word “ambient lighting” more than a bedroom? Not only will you feel like you’ve created the ultimate single (or single) aesthetic with this look, but you’ll also get great functionality by adding smart lighting to your bedroom. The Hue smart phone app allows you to set the light strip to light up at the same time your alarm clock wakes you up in the morning, allowing you to wake up with sunny tones that will keep you smiling for the rest of the day.
7 Shelves and Behind the TV
Often the lower corners of our rooms do not get as much attention, and the lighting of these spaces can make a room instantly feel bigger and cleaner. The use of smart light strips to illuminate upwards also gives the walls of your room the ability to change color, making your space feel and look totally different at the touch of a button.