Install Under Cabinet Lighting | One Day Kitchen Improvement

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[roosterandco]

Thanks, April! The most helpful thing for me is showing me that it's okay to cut the drywall to get the job done. I've been trying to find a way to avoid cutting open the wall to fish an outlet from one room, across the hallway, and into the other room. I'm just going to bite the bullet and use the multitool to make a few small access cuts.

[dustyacres]

I loved the grenade sitting in the kitchen window. Nothing like being prepared for anything...

[CaptK-pyrq]

As always, nice project April!
A good rule of thumb to always follow April, and yes, I know you're installing backsplash, but always, always use nail plates over the stud to protect your wires, plumbing runs, etcetera, through any stud wall, a good habit to get into, no matter. You may at one point sell and the new homeowner might decide they want to take your beautiful tile/stone backsplash down, now they nail really cool random lengths of horizontal thin barn wood up with their new zippy pneumatic 15ga finish nailer using 2.5" nails because that's all they have handy ...this may never happen, but, it only takes a moment to do this correctly. Thanks again, we enjoy and look forward to your videos.

[the_judge_]

Good vid April. I connected a small discreet PIR sensor to my under cabinet lights on a 2 min cycle. As an added bonus it means at night we can enter the Kitchen for a quick trip, e.g glass of water and don't need to touch the main lights as these are more than enough, and they turn off automatically

[oodoodoopoopoo]

We already had backsplash tiles when I installed my under cabinet lighting. Luckily the box I was running the electric from was an old-work box so I was able to pull it out to more easily run the cable up the wall. I removed the cabinet above and routed the cable out where the ~1" top recessed area of the cabinet is. I re-hung the cabinet to hide my cutouts and wired in to a 12v transformer / switch box for the LED lights. From there I ran the 12-volt lamp cords across the top of the cabinets and down the space between the cabinets to the under side recessed area where I would put the LEDs. At each workstation, I also ran extra lamp cord down to painted metal single blanks to be mounted underneath near the lights and used as touch sensors. Wired into the switch box we added an Arduino for logic control of the switches. The logic is programmed such that:
Single Tap cycles through low, medium, high, off, (repeat) dim levels for the lights of the workstation corresponding to that particular touch switch.
Long press cycles the lighting of all of the workstations to the same dim level. Any single taps within 5 seconds of a long press will cycle the dim levels of all workstations.
It's so fun and convenient to use and I can even tap them with my elbows if my hands are greasy or wet.

[scottsimpey]

Looks great. My wife and I bought these led lights for under our cabinets that came with connections to have all the lights on one switch. It does use a typical plug but that could easily be modified and hooked into a wall switch. The lights came with hardware so they could be screwed into the underside of the cabinets as well as these double sided adhesive pads so if you did want to screw into your cabinets you could use those. I didn’t directly wire them into a wall switch as I was able to hide the wire and plug it into an outlet behind our fridge. On another note your kitchen is beautiful. A bit of kitchen envy going on here as yours looks very spacious.

[pteddie]

Your kitchen looks great, April. You did a great job on the lights and the back splash.
I can't wait for Feb. 23rd. Isn't it amazing how blessed your life has been? I still remember those first two videos (which I enjoyed, BTW) and now look at you. You have a dream shop, a dream business and you're headed for TV stardom. Wow! I'm so happy for you. You deseerve it. Stay safe and thanks for all of the great YouTube adventures.

[videotheclips]

Great work, I really love your kitchen, an the tiles you added.

[ninjaantelope]

Wow, our kitchens are nearly identical?! Nice! ... needed to update my lighting under the cabinets. And add to the toe kick for ambience. This helps greatly- thank you!

[Hambone]

Looks awesome, love your videos! Just finished my backsplash in ny kitchen, 1am this morning first time doing it, very proud!!... now I'm at work. 😴👍🏾

[JJ-ytze]

This is one the best and honest cabinet light installations other than a professional should install these lights...

[lminteriordesignllc]

The most comprehensive video that I have found yet! Thank you, Ms Wilkerson!

[elmirekidd]

So I literally just subscribed to your channel because you’re a woman doing this kind of work and I would like to learn from you for when my husband and I move into our new house. I did enjoy the video!

[LukeRoblox]

Nice video April!!! Great job ur the best woodworker I know 🙂

[iSparkFU]

omg!!! So much to like about this project! It has been executed very nicely. Products used are perfect & so is the skill & technique. The whole project just works. Great job!

[MCsCreations]

Pretty well done, April! Really nice! 😊
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[chrisflavelle]

For those items that have a keyhole design for mounting, but no way to get to them through the fixture, photocopy them at 100% and use the photocopy as your template. Great work as always.

[Calli]

Great video! I've been wanting to do this for a long time.

[jeffkuipers]

my wife always wanted lights under her cabinets for long time in the kitchen for thanksgiving, christmas etc.but didnt know where to begin without making a total mess. but know i think i can take this on. thank you.

[ChrisHansonDev]

Great video, love watching April’s projects.