I can see the light

In our kitchen Brian adapted some old wooden units to use as our kitchen cupboards. It was always our plan to have some kind of illumination on them for the work surface below, but although we had plenty of plugs fitted when we did the kitchen we didn’t put any lights under the cupboards.

So last week we bought a couple of Hue light strips, which we can control via a Bluetooth controller, or via an app on our phones. These light strips can be stuck in place quite easily, so should be straight forward. The only challenge though is that I don’t want the light strip to be visible when I’m sitting at the kitchen table, which means adding some kind of beading to the base of the cupboard.

This cupboard is made of mahogany, a wood that you cannot easily buy nowadays, in fact, I’m not sure you can buy it anymore. So Brian has bought some oak beading and is trying to stain that to match, he will then use that to hide the lighting strips. It’s one of those seemingly small jobs that actually needs lots of patience.