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Plan Light Placement and Spacing — Plan LED Strip Layout

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How to Install LED Lights on Stair Risers · Step 1 of 7

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Before installing the lights, carefully plan their placement on the stair risers. For wrap-around steps, it's recommended to stagger the lights rather than placing them in a straight line to achieve a more aesthetically pleasing cascading effect. Identify the midpoint of each riser, and then measure out equal distances (e.g., 3 feet) from the center in both directions to mark the light positions. Use masking tape or a marker to indicate the precise locations where each light will be installed.

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hey what are you doing there sean oh um i'm actually getting ready to uh prep for all of these decorators riser lights that we're gonna be putting in so this is a little bit complicated because we have these wrap around stairs whenever we have these you can see each tread is a little bit longer than the one before it we don't want to just do straight lines we want to stagger them and it just looks a little bit nicer so what i like to do start on my middle riser i find my middle point that's right there and then we do an offset off of that so right now i'm doing the three foot spacing between lights so i pulled three feet off in both directions so on this riser right in between these two lights and then from this one to this one we have that three foot spacing and then it's going to be the same on this bottom riser what do you think that's good so you can see because we staggered them we have this our top and bottom riser are lining up but because this one is about two feet longer we get an extra light here so it looks like it cascades down this corner but all the spacing is still the same if you have them just in straight lines it gets really wacky looking in this corner because you could either go light light light but then you have this big open space and it just looks a little a little weird so we like to do it like this on wrap around stairs and uh a lot of lights

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