The Best LED Lights For Your Room in 2022 | Lighting Access (2023)

We spend so much of our time at home. It deserves to be our little oasis.

And what’s one of the easiest ways to make a room uniquely yours? You guessed it, lighting.

There’s lots of affordable and easy ways to add lights to your room. It can be as easy as switching out an old incandescent light bulb in favor of an LED color changing smart bulb.

Or maybe you want to add some LED strip lighting to your TV or bookshelves. However you decide to personalize your space, adding some fun or functional lighting is something you’re not going to regret.

• Smart home LED bulbs for ceiling lights and floor lamps (Apps)
• LED strip lights for walls, bed frame, desks, headboards and mirrors
• Remote controlled LED bulbs for bedrooms
• Modern LED corner floor lamp
• LED strip lights for TV monitors
• LED tile lights for bedrooms
• LED Strip Lights for bookshelves
• Portable color changing table lamp
• Small LED fairy lights for decor

Bottom line. Strip lights are just cool. With the peel-and-stick application, you can add them to just about any surface.

Add them to your walls, dresser, headboard, under your bed frame, desk area, bookshelves or mirrors.

Most strip light come in either a roll or a small section. You may need an existing nearby wall outlet to plug a cord into and more than likely you’ll have access to one in a bedroom.

Pro tip –Typical bedroom sizes in the U.S. are around 12 feet by 12 feet (master bedrooms are larger). If you need to connect multiple light strip rolls, look for a product that can be connected to make a longer run.

The other fun thing with strip lights is the ability to have complete control. Consider using an app that adjusts colors, brightness, and offers memory and timer controls. This way, you can make it more functional for your specific needs.

Your bed is an easy target for lighting. And whether it’s for purely decorative purposes or more functional, you’ll love this accent light.

If you want a bed with LED lights, the best product to use is light strips.

They can easily adhere to the underneath side of a bed frame or to the back of a headboard.

With the ability to change colors, sense motion and be on set timers, light strips can be perfect for the bedroom and a bed frame.

Don’t want to deal with an app or downloads? I can’t blame you. Luckily, there’s a solution.

You can still get all the benefits of LED bulbs without a mobile device or app. Bulbs like the one from Govee are perfect for that.

Most bulbs are sized on a scale. More than likely, you have an A19 bulb size in your standard floor lamp, desk lamp or ceiling light fixture. “A” just refers to the bulbs shape and the two digit number after refers to the bulbs diameter at its largest point. (I know, more than you need right now.)

With an LED bulb you’ll get more energy savings, longer lifetime, less heat and more control over color.

Need a quality standard LED bulb? Check out these 60W equivalent LED bulbs.

These are just fun to have around the home or in the yard.

Hang them on your walls, desk, bookshelves and even on your indoor plants. Most mini lights will either be battery operated and cater more towards crafts and then you have other that use a plug-in power supply and are for decor around the house.

Mini LED lights are amazing for small little bursts of ambient light. You can’t go wrong.

One of the easiest ways to make a small section of your room pop is to add lighting to your shelves.

Not only does it look amazing, but it serves a purpose too. Using an LED strip light is the simplest way to do this. The peel-and-stick application gives you control over where you place it.

Pro tip – Make sure your surfaces are clean and dust free. Strip lights always adhere better to clean surfaces.

You can look for a regular LED strip light roll with a plug-in power supply or you can use a battery powered wireless option.

When using strip lights for any purpose, you’ll want to select the right color temperature for your setting. I would stick with a warm white, especially in a bedroom. However, if you have white cabinets or bookshelves, cool white strip lights may be ideal.

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Go big or go home, right? With lighting, spending a few extra dollars goes a long way.

Mostly notably, within the actual quality of the LEDs (light emitting diodes). You’ll get better color consistency throughout, a higher CRI (90+ color rendering index) and longer lasting products.

The other huge benefit to spending more on a light is the brand will have a better reputation. This means more resources and better customer service if something were to go wrong.

Regardless, it’s always better to invest in a quality light. Here’s some of my recommendations…

Set the mood and add small tile lights to your walls. Create unique shapes and designs to make the light pop.

You can use various colors to create the exact ambiance when working, gaming, streaming or watching movies.

Make sure your wall is clean and you use these in an area you don’t need the wall space for.

Most wall tile lights have expandable tile sets, but typically to start, they offer just a few and then you can build on from there. Also, make sure to get a wall plug-in version instead of USB, you’ll have more options for usage.

Full emersion. I need it. You need it. It’s so fun to binge the latest series and have the wall lit up!

This is one of the products you don’t know you need until you see it. Yep, it does take a little time to install, so be patient. But it’s well worth the investment and time.

The backlit TV will use a camera that gets mounted to the top or bottom of the TV. Once calibrated, it captures the colors on the screen to relay them to the strip lights on the back.

All of this can be operated via the Govee Home app.

A perfect accent light for any room, the Philips Hue “Go” light is totally portable.

The 6″ x 6″ x 3″ light gives you illumination anywhere. It’s small enough to be incorporated in any room and large enough to provide ample amounts of light.

Battery life will last between 2.5 hours all the way up to 18 hours. It’ll simply depend on the light setting and how much it’s used.

Another plus? The Philips Hue app can control the lights functions via Bluetooth. Pretty handy to have for bedroom, patio or living room light.

It’s only natural to have a light in the corner of a room. Using a tall floor lamp is perfect for most rooms that don’t already have a ceiling light.

Might as well use those walls to their full reflective advantage, right?

Sure, you can run down to Ikea and grab a generic floor lamp, but why not get a light that makes your room uniquely you.

It might not be for everyone, but that’s what makes modern LED corner lights awesome. All you need is a nearby wall outlet to plug it into.

Have a home office, library or modern decor? This style of light can fit right in.

One of the easiest ways to improve the lighting in your room is to switch out your bulbs.

You most likely have incandescent bulbs. You know, the ones that burn the heck out of your hand when you accidentally touch one.

You can quickly switch out that older incandescent bulb to an energy-efficient LED bulb.

If you want to control the light via an app on your phone or tablet, smart bulbs can be super functional. They cater to your life and your specific settings. Most modern LED smart bulbs will require an app download and operate on Wifi and Bluetooth.

LED lights are great for bedrooms! I can sum it up in one word…customizable.

It’s not only bedrooms that can benefit from LED lights. With smart home ecosystems, we can take a “whole-home” approach. And with controls via devices and apps it’s easier to customize an LED light set up around your preferences.

Everything from the size, shape, style, switches and most importantly, the colors are why LED lighting is so good for your room.

LED light fixtures have come along way in recent years. There’s no doubt you’ll be able to find a solution for your space. You can use anything from a traditional LED bulb for a lamp, strip lights behind your bed frame, glowing table lamps, LED lights behind your TV or stick up lights on shelves.

• LED lights can be adjusted from Warm White to Cool White which helps you wake up and wind down.
• LED lights can help you sleep with red ambient lights.
• LED lights don’t generate heat like incandescent bulbs do.

You can use LED lights anywhere in the home. They are great for both task lights and accent lights.

The small size of LED fixtures makes them adaptable for strip lights, puck lights, small mini lights and so much more.

A few of the main advantages include:

• Small size
• Energy savings
• Financial savings
• Long lifetime
• Color changing
• Low heat emittance

When removing, the strong adhesive backing on LED strip lights do have the ability to lift paint off your wall and ceiling.

Since strip lights use electrical circuitry within the roll of light, you aren’t able to secure it with staples or nails.

The ability to stick strip lights to just about any flat surface is one of its main features, but when used on painted walls and even wood substrates, it can damage surfaces when peeled off or removed.

A less permanent work-around is to use small clips to secure the strip light every 24” to 48” to prevent drooping.

If you’re adding LEDstrip lightsor string lights, you can look for a standard 16 foot roll or a strip light that can be connected together to make a longer run.

Most standard sized bedrooms are around 12 feet by 12 feet or even smaller. Master bedrooms of course, can be much larger.

If you want to have string light sections that droop down to form a “U” shape along the upper wall, you may need lights that are twice as long as your wall.

It’s always a good idea to find a tape measure and get the actual measurements of the room and go from there.