Light styles
This page is about how different lighting styles read in a room or on a house. It is meant to help you picture the result before getting pulled into technical details.
A lighter, more playful look that works well when the goal is accent color and animation more than a continuous wash of light.
Best for: Budget-conscious accent installs, tucked-away strips, and areas where diffusion softens the individual pixels.
COB strips read as smoother and more continuous, which makes them a strong choice when you want the light to feel clean instead of dotted.
Best for: Rooflines or intentional lighting features where you want a cleaner, brighter light that still has a polished finish. This is what I generally recommend for roofline installs and areas where you want the light to feel more like a feature and less like a string of LEDs.
My newest addition of lights that are perfect for creating 2D images and patterns. They have a more focused light output than the strips, which makes them great for designs where you want the individual points of light to pop.
Best for: 2D images, custom shapes, and areas where you want the light to feel more like a feature and less like a line of light.
Holiday lighting can stay classic and warm one night, then shift to animated scenes the next without restringing the tree.
Best for: Indoor Christmas trees, outdoor trees, seasonal displays, and family-focused holiday installs.
144 LEDs/m strips create a fuller line of light with fewer visible gaps, which makes them great when you want a richer, more premium-looking glow.
Best for: Feature pieces and areas where the light source is fairly visible and you want detailed lighting. I generally recommend these installations to be kept to a few meters at most.