For some time, the Swedish company Ikea has also some LED-lights in it’s shelfs. I bought mine and installed them as decorative lighting elements underneath a bar. Here’s the story…..

Since 2006, I have owned a small house, where my kitchen is installed in an L-shaped design. As I found out, the dividing wall between kitchen and livingroom was during the evening quite dark.

Originally I thought about mounting a fluorescent light underneath the wooden bar, but it was not possible to hide the lightbulb. Therefore I had some requirements to be met:

• Simple to install;
• Easy to hide out of sight;
• Energy-efficient;

During the shopping-session I found these “Trettioen” LED-lights at an Ikea-shopping centre. It consists of 4 elements, so you can also decorate photo’s, paintings etc. with it!

The LED-rail is approx. 1 meter in length when all 4 seperate rails are linked together.

This rail claims to use only 1,7 Watt on your electricity bill, but it is available in several different colors : white, blue, red, green (and in 2008 I discovered this same rail with changing color-mode Leds…)

I can not recall the exact price (back in 2006), but it was around EUR 39 for one complete rail (4 small rails, including powersuppy etc.)