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Glad I watched this. Never thought of the plug behind the microwave above the oven. I can power all my cabinets on both sides using that plug. PERFECT. Thanks for the vid.

the ability to split to different directions is exactly what i was looking for! subscribed and thanks

I appreciate your taking the time to make this video to share. It is just what I was looking for!! I nave to smh, though, because he spent all that time installing the lighting and making this video, but didn’t want to spend an extra 15-30 minutes maximum spraying the tops of the cabinets with 409 to wipe the dirt away. Men🙄 LOL. It’s literally that easy…spray with 409, wipe with paper towels to remove dirt, wipe again with clean damp rag to rinse cleaner residue away, then and dry towel. Poof! It’s done. Just did this in my son’s new kitchen and it smells so much better now that the years of built up grease the previous owner’s left behind is gone . He was so appreciative. Boys, while you’re already up there, take the extra bit of time to clean a bit. It’s worth it!! Your nose with thank you for it!! Written with love from mom’s everywhere❤️

Awesome video! It was extremely useful as a guideline for my own kitchen. I installed the LED strips both under and over my cabinets! Now the In-laws have shown interest in doing this in their kitchen! So it looks like I may be doing another kitchen! Thank you for the guidance!

I also have lights on top of the cabinets, and did it with no outlet at all. I actually had to run an extension cord right along the seam of the cabinet where no one sees it all the way to the outlet behind the fridge. At the end of the cord I plugged a smart outlet and have them so they will automatically go on and off at certain times. They could also be turn on or off using Alexa. I really love the vibe it gives.

THANK YOU Was figuring out what I wanted to do. Almost spent $250 for the black and Decker because of Simplicity. But this is easy easy. Thank you great explanation

Thank you for all the details! I really needed to see exactly how to do this and your video was a life saver.

Didn't watch this video as it isn't something I was interested in but couldn't help but click on the thumbnail! Good one!

Great video. Thinking of doing this in my kitchen. Only thing I didn't see was a dimmer switch, but with the remote on and off button, I'm impressed. I'd put that right next to the power switch for the kitchen lights cause I'd lose it in a drawer.😊

You're correct, it is in series. I love the ideas! I'm working on a project similar to this myself. I was wondering how folks did it like this! Thanks for some ideas!

I think I'm going to go this route, thanks for being so detailed.

Thanks for this vid man! You explained it so well and made it sort of fool proof. I’m going to be building and installing kitchen cupboards and didn’t know how to add the lights below. I actually thought they’d be the round lights so I literally thought I’d have to redesign the bottom of the top cupboards just to hide the round lights 😅 that would’ve been way too over complicated. With your advice I can add the lights to my quote and do it myself AND score some extra work AND save my client money👍🏾can’t wait to see your other vids. Keep it up man!

I put RGB LEDs on the top of my new cabinets and just use the remote to turn them off and on. My wife wasn’t impressed with the colors, until she saw them being changed. Now, I will go in the kitchen and she will be sitting at the breakfast bar drinking a glass of wine with the room lights out and the LEDs on the color of the day! Now I have to add more to the bottom. I have been trying some rechargeable ones, but the motion sensors are not working correctly, so a better solution is needed. If anyone is installing new cabinets, I suggest having wiring done during the install, just in case you want to add them later.

You should’ve cleaned the top since you were up there and idk maybe the lights would stuck better but they look pretty good. Great video man. I might do the same haha :) thank you for sharing

Just did mine this morning. Thanks for the video. Made it very easy.

Thank you for such a detailed video quick question related to what if I want multi color Led lights which can be control with Remote and the smart switch? Any idea on which led lights would work this setup 💡 thank you in advance

I really like your kitchen and the lighting; it's a very nice and tidy job. What a fantastic video! It came in handy as a reference for my own kitchen. Thank you for all of the information! Your video was a lifesaver for me because I needed to understand exactly how to achieve this. Could you possibly do me a favour and provide a detailed list of all the things we need to order from Amazon? I hope I'm not asking for too much.

Thank you this was so helpful and your kitchen lighting looks AMAZING!!

Love it! $60 and a few hours saved you hundreds of dollors. Starting on mine soon.

Thanks so much, your video help my husband and I with our project 👍🏽

Great info and buy list. I struggled to get good connections on a white strip using the quick connectors. Perhaps a future video can add tips for using these. It seems obvious, but it isn’t.

I used RGBWW smart led strips on the tops and bottoms of my cabinets. I like that they can be turned on or off with my Google Assistants. Plus they can be warm white, white, or any color you can imagine.

Use a diffuser filter to blend the light evenly out.

nice ... I'm going to try this. I think I will add some diffusers to control the light a bit more

How did you get the button to connect to the smart plug for the lights?

Awesome job. I'm going to try to do this to my kitchen. If you wanted to match your LED strip lights (they look like 6000K is what you got since they are more cool/white color temp)---- get "DAYLIGHT" led bulbs for your recess can lights (which would be equivalent in color).

Fantastic Video! We actually purchased rechargeable Light Strips that are held up by magnets and I came here looking for how to best place them. We’re choosing mid-cabinet like you have. Unfortunately my days of climbing ladders are over, which is why we chose the easily mounted magnetic & rechargeable strips. (Stinks when you age and can’t be as handy as you once were.

Best video I've seen so far 😎

Very good video and explanation! We already have under cabinet LED lighting, but I want to add lighting above the cabinets. Thanks!

I put my LED strips into aluminium channel - they get quite hot and I'm hoping the channel will dissipate the heat and extend the life of the LED's. The diffusion covers of the strips gives a softer light and is, I think, worth the extra expense

Great video. Thanks for the walk through. Just put these underneath my cabinets and they look great. I apologize if someone else has already asked this in the comments and it’s been answered but how did you hook up the remote to the smart plugs seems easy but I’m having an issue, connecting different brand platforms.

Do you have any ideas for lighting underneath the hood over my stove that doesn't take electricity, like rechargeable or battery-operated. The lighting and ventilation is broken so I just need a light under there. They would have to be heat resistant. Thank you for any help.

Nice . Is it adjustable for change a color worming by timer? And do I need something like amplifier if my strips will be to long ?

You're connecting them in a series. Thanks for making this, I'm gonna do the same in my kitchen!

Very helpful and thanks for sharing. Question: I would use white lighting 90% of the time; however, thinking it would be a nice "option" to be able to change colors once in awhile. Is the color light able to look white with a setting and would you recommend the color lights you provided link to in your post?

Hi guys, Reid is my uncle

Hi, can tou please share how you actually got a smart wireless button to control both the plugs?

Great video! This is my next project and you gave me the perfect blueprint!

Your kitchen looks great.

I'm wondering what the lifespan of the upper lights will be without a diffuser to protect against dust. 🤔 Your video confirmed my speculation that I'd want tunable white strips, as the led strips being at such a different Kelvin rating from the recessed pucks would drive me sorta batty. Hahaha

I did something similar in my kitchen but with a motion sensor

Daisy chain. 😊

I did it around the top trim and under with a motion sensor set for 6 minutes. sometimes we forget to turn on the actual kitchen lights 😁😁😁

Holy shit I have the same back splash and white cabinets the only thing I have different is the color granite counter tops haha . Your window fridge stove and microwave are the exact same layout as mine like exactly the same . I thought of doing this with hue lights and for the cabinets that are separate on the end of the window I’d just add the hue stand alone lamp although I already have hardwired lights under the cabinets so idk it’s a tuff decision. Great video though thanks .

Looks nice. But my OCD wouldn't allow me to leave that kind of mess on top of my cabinets. Sure, no one would ever see the mess, but I would know the mess is up there and my OCD would pick at me until the mess was cleaned up. What's behind the curtain doesn't matter for a lot of people, but for me it does. :)

Very helpful. Thanks for posting.

Anyway you can explain on how to connect the multi color led strips from low voltage wire to attach to another led strip

Nice work.., thanks for sharing !

The woman in me is screaming, since you didn’t “feel like” cleaning the top of the cabinets! 🤣😂

How to connect the additional 18 gauge wire to the connector. The wire on th connector is thinner than the extension cable?

There habit forming but saving on your electric bill and give your home a more warm modern look, with out all these ugly dust catching light fetcher. That sicky tape is excellent on the backs on them too. My counter tops look so clean and much better bare. The light bring out the marble. I love the bright white light. I made a hall way light out of them to. 4 strip of light 2' long and made them dangle with them curving, WOW it so cool looking ~ Looks alien ~ Like i said there habit forming! I put some over my computer desk top stand, where the light shine down on the desk top I LOVE IT ~ it easy on the eyes to ~ I CAN SEE, can read and write he hee

What button remote are you using and how did you tie it to the Wyze plugs?

I mean, ya. That works. However, the finish just looks bad if you ever want to sell your house. I would actually just bite the bullet and spend a couple bucks more for LED bars that have enclosers. It would make the LED easier to clean and it protects them from grease, water, dirt, etc. It's amazing how far grease goes in the kitchen when you do deep clean.

So do you have LED’s in the cabinet above your microwave since each light string terminates in the female power end?

As soon as I saw “I got power from this outlet ..made an outlet up there” that was it for me …It looks great tho.👌🏽

Amazing 👏 great job

Also I bought and tried the rgb and it didn’t work. Seems something to do with the lead/connectors. Light not water proof and connectors are for water proof lights. Lost all money as I cut the lights. Thoughts?

Looks great. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks man! I’m going to do it on my kitchen

Awesome. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks for this! I have mine connected with a jump from one set of cabinets over the microwave to another cabinet. The lights before the jump are on, and a volt meter shows the second strip is active, but they aren't on. Any ideas?

Nice!! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for your video. I am wondering about what did you do at the section Time 2:29. You mention that you took power off the outlet near the coffee maker and run it up the wall. Actually Did you ran wires behind the wall up to the top of the cabinets? How did you fished the wires? By the way, You did an amazing job.

Thanks, definitely will be doing this

You HAVE to show us the install now lol especially through the outlets

I bought everything in your description menu. I hooked up my lights using the quick connect. Came out nice except the Kasa smart plugs are not syncing with the Aqara hub and mini switch. Any advice? I can’t seem to find the plugs on the Aqara hub menu of accessories

Great video! What do you do to turn them on and off? What app?

Adding under cabinet LEDs and have an outlet in a cabinet above the over-the-range microwave. Trying to figure out the setup to have them motion sensing to turn on if someone walks into the kitchen at night.

It's in Series. There's no way to do it in parallel because you cant create a junction with just 2 connection points, I never thought that I would put what I learned in Grade 11 Physics to use. I can put it in parallel if you connect 2 wires to + and - but IDK if that is possible

I like the look of the set up real nice, but The connections show regular wire on one side and the connectors on the other. Show how you connected the wires and your power source.

How about talking about the extra wire you used and how you put that together???

Looks very nice 👍

Are these led strips 2 pin 10mm?

So to go from bottom to top of cabinet, your splicing where you need to whether bottom or top cabinet, then to connect the bottom LED strip to the top LED strip, you're connecting the two strips with wire and connectors? Is this basically right?

So u used a smart switch in the outlet and then used the aqara to sync with it???

I’d go for 3,500 K lights rather than those blue looking 5,000 or 6,000 Kelvin lights. That’s not completely warm where it looks orange but it’s a warmer more cozy looking light.

One thing I am not clear about is how you ran 110v from existing socket and I presume an already finished backsplash on the backside of the wall. Think you said using fishtape or golden rod fiberglass rods. Was it just luck you didn't hit anything else in the 110v extention above the cabinets. When (and they will) start to come unglued if nothing else but gravity acting on them, use Weldwood Contact cement. Blue tape about 1/2" wide gap, brush on both light strip and the 1/2" wide gap between the two rows of blue tape. Use cheap Paint brush on contact cement.. let dry to touch, then stick um on. They'll never come off easily. Don't confuse Weldwood Contact Cement with Rubber Cement.

I did this for my bar and set it up to an adjustable time motion sensor from amazon. They only come on when you're ready for them. Don't have to worry about them being on when they don't need to be. Don't have to worry about shutting them off every night (which you will forget) or setting them up to a timer in which they're on for longer than they need to be.

Thank You, great video

Appreciate the insight on install. These color temperatures should not be run together. Makes it really hard on the eyes and contrast looks like a morgue. Warm White (What you call "Yella" brings out more accurate colors. Why all the shadow?

Have a question.. cant you place a strip on the back edge of the absorver?

wire them in series. you want the electrons to flowing straight through.

I'm thinking of going this route with my under-the-cabinets lighting. I really like your implementation. I like the idea of having the smart way to control the lights as well as a physical button we can maybe mount someplace for the kids or guests who wouldn't have easy manual control of the lights. The Zigbee button says it requires a hub? I don't recall you explaining that bit. How do you link the button to control those smart plugs?

Thank you. I already have upper and lower cabinet lights (halogen 120V) but much prefer LED strip lights. Will try to do this. I am still using my old regular plug. My question is can a plug be connected to the connection wire?Thanks

What type of were did you use to conect the led sections together??

Fantastic 👍👍👍👍👍

Maybe I missed it but where did you plug in for power?

Looks really good, I plan on doing this too. Quick question: I have a stand alone cabinet, I’m wondering if there’s a cross stud behind it that I would have to go through to duplicate the AC outlet that’s under it above it like you did. Thanks

Nice I may try this one. So I want the same light as the incandescent bulbs is that the warm white? Also I have the exact set up outlet behind fridge and on the other side outlet in cabinet for microwave so I can run two separate runs on either side of the kitchen and go above and below. Questions. Power cord to the first light strip and when do you use the long red wire? When you’re connecting one light to another cabinet? What are the connectors for? I will re watch. Also does this have an app to turn on and off since the power will be behind the fridge and behind a cabinet? Do they dim?

Thanks pappi

Any tips on connecting the longer lengths if wire to the solderless connectors?

i believe it is in series circuit...

How do you dim these if your controllers are on top of your cabinets??

I agree ☺️

Thank You for the video going to try this out over the weekend. I’m curious do you need the hub to get the Zigbee button to work with the smart outlet? Or can you connect the button directly to the smart outlet? I’m not clear on that step. I would like the button and use of the app. Thank You

I enjoyed your video and think you did a good job explaining how you completed the project. I’m thinking of painting my oak cabinets to and like your backsplash. Did you do both projects?

Thanks for the details on this setup. How did you split the wiring coming from the microwave outlet to go both ways?

Please confirm; do I need a different strip for every outlet?

Reid, did you use heat shrink tubing or electrical tape to secure the excess wire to your solderless connectors?