[Photo: Alan Parkeh] Ever needed to get up in the middle of the night, only to struggle to find the light switch for the hallway? Or maybe you didn’t want to wake family members with bright light? Or ...

We really like [Geert’s] take on accent lighting for his stairs. He built his own LED channels which mount under the bullnose of each step. The LED strips that he used are actually quite inexpensive.

Motion-triggered lighting isn't new, but nor is it generally aesthetically pleasing; if I were Edo Kreigsmann I think I'd be running up and down the stairs all night. His DIY LED lighting system doesn ...