Stair lighting is a modern lighting technology, how to decorate the stairs? To make it look beautiful and functional, the easy way to do it is to use LED light strips. This installation not only illuminates the stairs, but emits a charming glow, while also greatly increasing the visibility of the sidewalk. If you plan to install Stairs with LED Strip in your home or business, then you can seriously read this article. Learn how to choose the best LED strips for stair lighting, and which lighting is right for your stairs.

Table of Contents

1. Plan the Effect of Stairway Lighting
2. Choosing the Right LED Strips for Stairway Lighting
3. Where to put LED Strips
4. How to Install LED Strips
5. Using Aluminum Profile or not

Plan the Effect of Stairway Lighting

We have different types of LED strips for you to choose, single color led strip, CCT adjustable led strip and multi-color RGB led strip and RGBW led strip.

First of all, you need to consider some questions, before you choose a suitable led strip, questions as below:

  1. What is the purpose of the led strip? – Is it the main lighting source or do you want to create a special atmosphere?
  2. What color temperature do you like?
  3. Do you want pure white light or warm light? Or want an RGB light strip?
  4. How do you want to control the light?

Choosing the Right LED Strips for Stairway Lighting

We need to have a general understanding of some characteristics of the led strip, because there are many types of led strip, and a certain effect you need the led strip to achieve, I have listed some details as follows.

IP protection level
color temperature
Nominal power of LED/m
High CRI80 or CRI90
Number of LEDs/m
duration in hours

Where to put LED Strips

Installing led strips on stairs, there are many ways to do this, but it all depends on the type of stairs you have, and where you want to place the LED strips. First of all, you need to measure the length of the installation area and confirm the specific placement, and then consider the length of the led strip, as well as a series of other installation issues.

How to Install LED Strips

All the led Strip have 3M adhesive, so it is very convenient to install, no matter where you want to install the led strip on the stairs, you can stick it directly. Moreover, 3M adhesive can be stuck on large On most non-porous and flat surfaces.

Using Aluminum Profile or not

In LED strip lighting, aluminum profile or extrusions function to help the strip dissipate heat, protecting the LEDs from dust and debris, extending the lifetime. There are also aesthetic advantages for this as well. The main benefit of using profiles prevents spotting, and gives the strip light a professional touch and a more finished look.

The aluminum profiles have 3 way of installation surface mount/recessed mount/angle, pls kind choose the appropriate profile according to your needs as below.

Pls kind let me know if you are going to light up your stairway lighting, i will give you more details with led strip.