Adding Fake Window Lighting To My Office | IKEA FLOALT

I work from home full time and with my home office being located in my basement, I barely get any good natural day lighting from my windows throughout most of the day.

So I decided to fix this issue by adding fake window lighting to my office with these wall panel LED lights from IKEA called the FLOALT. I first had to convert the IKEA FLOAT from hardwire to plug-in light, which turned out to be easier than I expected. By the way IKEA lights work with Philips Hue smart lighting too, so you can control it with the Hue app and create smart home automations. This is how you energize your workspace by adding lights!

Anyways check out the video see how this project ended up turning out.

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[EricTMeraki]

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[SC-hkui]

Your video is brilliant and has somewhat transformed my thinking about what I want to achieve in terms of lighting my own desk space. I have been battling with getting enough of the right kind of light for over a year now. But it's videos like this that really help. Thank you.

[visionarywatts]

I've toyed with this idea since my home office has a similar lighting problem. I have a window but my large front porch covers all the sunlight but I want a more intense light from that direction. I never thought about converting one of these to a plug. Smart idea! If I ever add one to my space I'll be sure to credit you with inspiration!

[HanBang]

Randomly landed on your video while searching up blackout curtains from IKEA (opposite spectrum of light needs haha) but this was such a clean and straight to the point tutorial 👍 nice work!

[Nespar]

Please, please connect the ground cable, too! The lamp has a metal body, and if something fails within it, you might get electrocuted, which would suck :(

[gamergwurl]

I’ve been looking for how to install that led for like months and ended up abandoning, the lamp has been waiting in my closet for so long and I just found this, it’s so helpful and I’m so grateful for it

[Katniss_cosmos]

This is genius, i didn't know they had this.

[mamaharumi]

Yo, this is actually super cool. I have a window but I may grab one of these for general lighting in my room.

[Ricochet]

I’m so glad you did this!!! I have been thinking of doing this for so long I just didn’t know if it would work. Thank you for videoing this!

[tquake]

Awesome. I have very dark attic room, this could help me. 🙏

[bellevoor]

I want to do this for my windowless classroom

[jsonli]

Great vid! I'm thinking of adding a skylight version of this where there was no light fixture before, did you modify the FLOATL frame to feed the cord out fixture and down the wall? Or how did you do that? And what did you use to run the cord down your wall? It looks very clean.

[enquantoeu]

i live at a place with NO direct lighting or view to the street…. it’s an apartment in the middle of the building… that will help A LOT ty again

[samdking]

Hey, this is a great idea. Does this improve the lighting when using your webcam? Or is it not strong enough to be used as a video light? Thanks.

[fjtrades]

Great idea. Question: you need the philips hue smart bridge and hue app to be able to connect to the FLOALT?

[achan]

Thanks for the video. I follows your steps with the plug conversion and setting up with the Hue hub. For some reason the lights keep turning back on by itself whenever I turn it off (e.g.via the app). Almost seems like it’s cycling power back on. Did you experience that or have any ideas on how to resolve this?

[supershiu]

since you can connect it with the phillips hue app, can you set timer to control when the light would go on and off automatically thru the app? or do you have to manually switch it on and off thru the physical switch?

[Gobolinn]

was the TRÅDFRI remote necessary if you already had the philips hue bridge?

[ziba]

some people have mentioned that it makes a noise - do you think it does? Is it loud enough to make things disturbing ?

[Vavdles]

I wonder if these could make a room feel warmer?