finished a major job this week - adding new lights and a fan to the kitchen, partly because I wanted a more mellow set of lights than the 4x4ft LED tubes in the overhead recess and partly because I found it really annoying having to walk around to the other side of the kitchen in the dark to turn the lights on.
I didn't actually
plan how long a light strip I needed for the kitchen, so it turned out the 5m strip of 2700K high CRI (supposedly) wasn't enough. Got around that by cutting the strips into their 3 LED units and spacing them apart on the under counter lights (alu strip from a closet door rail, believe it or not). Was super tedious wiring them all together.
light strips for the overhead light
dimmers (one for under counter lights, one for overhead) and 2nd power supply. The first one lasted an hour as it was a 24W unit with a 60W sticker on it. That'll teach me.
under counter strips with some diffuser plastic (bulk trash find) as a cover, mounted on stand offs made from a piece of small diameter metal pipe (possibly from a toilet roll holder)
dim shot of the overhead light so you can see where the strips are
bright shot, I like the light colour. You can also see the new fan that I installed. Running the wire for that was not fun and required machining some adapters so I could use my socket extensions to hole saw a hole in the side of the box between the light recess and fan hole.
one side of the kitchen
and the other
and some lights under the island more for fun than anything. Makes a nice "don't walk into the dishwasher" light for the nights.
now onto the next project, a new work bench