LED Strip Lighting Recommendations for New Kitchen

[Kevin B]

Hi,

Please could you tech savvy people advise a novice which products are recommended for LED strip lights for a Kitchen

1) under a worktop of about a length of 6m
2) Under wall units of about 4m
3) Also under worktop for an Island (Island length 3m) possibly the full perimeter (7.2m)

The kitchen layout is an L shape with an Island:

I would like to set them up so they are all connected together to a single PIR sensor on the ceiling in the middle of the kitchen and can be also switched off completely with a wall switch. Can I also use a remote to change the colours with this configuration?

What configuration of wiring would I need for this/ materials/ products.

Any help/ links/ pictures would be greatly appreciated,

Thank you in Advance

 

[The Ghost]

If your kitchen is 2.4m wide and the worktops total 1.2m wide that will leave you 1.2m of space to move in. As the island will be placed in the middle of that it means you will have circa .6m either side of the island? Anyway what you are proposing can be done but specifying it would depend on your budget. You can get strip LED at £15.00 per meter or £20 per meter for RGB with remote. A switch on the wall as a master switch is not a problem with a PIR as a secondary switch. Maybe Lutron controls for the remote part. Seems like you are looking at around 21 meters of LED strip which comes out at about £450 plus Lutron remotes, or you can get them with the LED RGB type. The wiring and fitting around 2 days from what you propose. Cost around £500 labour, so not much change out of £1k. I suspect you may change your mind on design though as you may wish to switch the different level/location lights separately so another day for such a configuration @ £250. per day.

 

[telectrix]

i'd ditch the island idea. as vorti said, you'll be tight for space when dowsing a chip pan fire. fit a second worktop tp the right hand wall ( where it says 3m).

 

[Midwest]

I did a kitchen refurbishment a while back for a customer who wanted LED RGB under cabinet LED strip lighting, why I don't know. But I suppose whatever floats your boat.

He was an aircraft electrician. So we agreed I would supply the switched lighting feed, and he would install the luminaires.

I told him to contact Collingwood Lighting - Specialising in LED, Collingwood Lighting offers you an exciting range of innovative products to help you make the right choice every time. - http://www.collingwoodlighting.com/en/, who do very good if expensive products, that available from quite a few suppliers. Never saw the end product, but he was happy. Collingwood give good sales & technical advice.

As regards kitchen design, go to any of the big suppliers, e.g. Howdens, who'll come to your house, measure and design everything for free. You don't have to buy their units.

 

[HandySparks]

What do you mean by "Under a worktop"?

 

[Midwest]

Something like this, its the latest craze

 

[HandySparks]

Something like this, its the latest craze

Hmm. And as such, I recon it's a bit crazy. What you need in a kitchen is good general lighting plus extra over the worktops.

 

[Midwest]

8 foot twin fluorescent should do the trick.

 

[Octopus]

Too complicated, too expensive imho.

Decent under cupboard lights which screw into place on a single switch would be far better, and won't fall off after a while

 

[The Ghost]

I recon it's a bit crazy.

The customer is always right, it is not for us to offer psychiatric evaluations now is it?

 

[Leesparkykent]

RGBW LED Controller - https://www.hiline-lighting.co.uk/gb/rgbrgbw-led-controllers/184-wireless-rgbw-and-single-colour-controller-4ch-5060440711350.html

RGB RGBW LED remote control - https://www.hiline-lighting.co.uk/gb/led-remote-controls/91-rgb-rgbw-led-remote-control-5060440710292.html


led strip lights - Hi-Line Lighting Ltd - https://www.hiline-lighting.co.uk/gb/66-led-products

 

[telectrix]

enough light to cook by, and adequate for 'er indoors to find her way in there. anything else is superflouous.

 

[Octopus]

8 foot twin fluorescent should do the trick.

Wow, as an under cupboard light - that's going to be bright!

 

[telectrix]

Wow, as an under cupboard light - that's going to be bright!

unlike the OP's kitchen design. bloody island. where are we, the bloody Carribean?

 

[Midwest]

Don't know how you lot make any money, if the customer wants the world and then some, whatever

 

[The Ghost]

whered'go