Rope Lights Install Crown Molding

Our cove lighting design.

Rope lights install crown molding.

Creative crown foam crown moldings shown with incandescent and led lighting sources. No brackets clips fasteners or connectors are needed. A string of small lights like the rope lights pictured here can be placed behind a strip of crown molding to add instant warmth to any room. Our cove is built from crown molding and set 2 in.

Follow along to learn how to install lighted crown moulding to your rooms. Coped corners require a special technique so that the rope lighting can make the turn. I think i spent 40 00 on the lights. Down from the ceiling.

I took the easy road and bought rope lighting at a factory determined length with a wall plug. Once i decided to install crown molding with rope lighting i measured the room and went to the store to buy rope lighting. Proceed with the installation of the crown molding butting its backside against the strip and nailing it in place. Hold the coped piece against the piece butted against the wall and run a pencil along the back side of the coped molding to mark a cutline.

The lights in this project are plugged into an electrical receptacle located behind the crown molding. We installed the crown on top of a baseboard to create a wider space for the light and tacked a small cove molding onto the bottom of the base to finish it figure a we fastened a led light strip to the wall so the lights would rake across the ceiling and in order to maximize the light we. So if you install a linear led product such as tape light hybrid light rope light or light bars that emits 80 lumens per foot and the overall linear run length of the crown molding around your room is 50 feet that means the cove lighting will be giving off 4 000 lumens in total. Just lay your light strips on top of our crown moldings.