Under-cabinet Lighting - Replacing with Intelligent, color LED

[TN_Oldman (Don)]

Here’s a couple projects I bookmarked that are like what your asking.

Under Cabinet Dimmable LED Strip Lighting

I started a kitchen LED lighting project this past weekend. I have a galley-shaped kitchen, with a row of cabinets on each side. One side had a tiny little florescent light wired to a light switch. The other side has no lights, but several outlets. No easy way to run wires between the sides. I got a strip of one-color warm LEDs from hitlights.com (these), along with a magnetic dimmable driver (this one). This allowed me to connect the LEDs to a regular 110W Z-Wave dimmer switch. I went with the Cooper (Eaton now) RF9540. I have a SmartThings motion sensor in the kitchen, along with an Echo. When I walk in, the lights fade up to 50%. If I need brighter, I can ask Alexa, or just walk over to the wall switch. Works great so far. Now I need to do the other side of the kitchen. The plan is to …

Under Cabinet Lighting Project has gotten out of hand... Wife is more pleased than expected

The wife and I decided that we were tired of half-finished projects around the house, so we’ve agreed to move forward with finishing the kitchen. About a year ago our stove died on us, leading impulse buy of a fridge in the clearance aisle. When we got everything home, we discovered that our brand new to us counter-depth fridge was 1/4" too wide to fit the fridge opening, so we did some frantic rearranging of the cabinetry and gave the fridge a wall all to itself. As soon as we had counter space, we sort of just… stopped. We never finished painting where the fridge had been or finished up the trim, etc. Our original under cabinet lighting was installed by me when we first moved in three and a half years ago. It was the cheapest halogen puck light kit that Home Depot had available. And l…

I’m sure there is others with even more examples and ideas.