Alright...
So I've been looking at trying to illuminate the stairway down into the gameroom/HT room. The hallway upstairs has a light (about 8 to 10ft away from the stairs), but at the bottom of the stairs there is no "direct" lighting onto the stairs. Which makes the stairs definitely dark if you don't have all the lights on upstairs in the hallway and downstairs in the game room.
What I'm trying to figure out is how to light the stairs or what some other have done in this situation.
I've looked at "track" type lighting to sit under the lip of the stairs (which are carpeted) to illuminate them or putting up flush mounted pods on the walls to illuminate a couple of steps.
Another thought I had was to put in recessed lighting into the ceiling of the steps, but I'm not sure if that would be annoying coming down the steps or not. Or do some type of under rail lighting to shine down on the steps (maybe route out a channel to put some LED strips in to light up).
I'd also like to figure out (depending on the cost here) how to add maybe an ambient light sensor or better yet a motion detector to turn them on when someone is using the stairs and off when not in use. If that cost is too much I can just put in two switches one up top and the other at the bottom to turn them off and on...but it'd be nice to not have to worry about forgetting and leaving them on all the time.
Any suggestions would be very much appreciated, I've just been surfing the net trying to figure out what I want to do with them. But someone with some knowledge would be very nice! :B
-Dan
So I've been looking at trying to illuminate the stairway down into the gameroom/HT room. The hallway upstairs has a light (about 8 to 10ft away from the stairs), but at the bottom of the stairs there is no "direct" lighting onto the stairs. Which makes the stairs definitely dark if you don't have all the lights on upstairs in the hallway and downstairs in the game room.
What I'm trying to figure out is how to light the stairs or what some other have done in this situation.
I've looked at "track" type lighting to sit under the lip of the stairs (which are carpeted) to illuminate them or putting up flush mounted pods on the walls to illuminate a couple of steps.
Another thought I had was to put in recessed lighting into the ceiling of the steps, but I'm not sure if that would be annoying coming down the steps or not. Or do some type of under rail lighting to shine down on the steps (maybe route out a channel to put some LED strips in to light up).
I'd also like to figure out (depending on the cost here) how to add maybe an ambient light sensor or better yet a motion detector to turn them on when someone is using the stairs and off when not in use. If that cost is too much I can just put in two switches one up top and the other at the bottom to turn them off and on...but it'd be nice to not have to worry about forgetting and leaving them on all the time.
Any suggestions would be very much appreciated, I've just been surfing the net trying to figure out what I want to do with them. But someone with some knowledge would be very nice! :B
-Dan
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