LED Stair Light/LED Step Light

Step 4 'Hiding' the Step Light... and Not Burning Yourself With Hot Glue (cont.)

Please note that the next two steps are simply what I landed upon for myself in regards to the attachment and 'look' of the finished lights. I had also considered drilling a hole into the step itself and affixing the switch and battery inside of each rise of the staircase. While the set-up described so far won't lend to there being enough slack for this method - you can easily lengthen the leads from the battery and switch with some small lengths of electrical wire (if you have some old speaker wire lying around, that could also work). There's also nothing wrong with feeding your LEDs through plastic tubing - one of the great things about LEDs is that they give off a very low amount of heat.

'Hiding' the Step Light:

For this part I chose a semi-thick felt fabric that matched the carpeting on my stairs. I cut the felt into a strip that would be long enough to go over the step light and then cut little holes for the LEDs and the switch to fit through (see picture).

Not Burning Yourself With Hot Glue (cont.):

I then attached the step light underneath the little 'lip' on the front part of the step using the hot glue gun (please use caution - hot glue can turn on you like the sandbox in the Devil's playground). At this point, you can choose to use an extra, little piece of that same felt fabric (and hot glue) to 'hide' the top of the battery. Go ahead and 'focus' each LED onto the stairs - they can handle a little nudge here and there. You may also choose (if your lights are a little bright for your liking) to simply add a thin strip of the felt running on top (but not completely covering) the lights.

And you're done!
Now you can turn on your lights whenever you like and add a touch of safety to your steps.

Thanks :)