Install Under Cabinet Lighting in less than 5 minutes w/ Gorilla® Mounting Tape
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Have you been wanting to add under-cabinet lighting to your kitchen cabinets but don’t have a budget for a professional electrician and no experience with tools? If so, you’ll love today’s post on how to install wireless under-cabinet lighting in 5 minutes!
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How to install wireless under cabinet lighting in 5 minutes:
We’re currently in a rental home, and even though it’s brand new, the house was built by a developer (along with several others in the neighborhood) specifically to be a rental house. What that means is the house was built with no upgrades at all. There are no ceiling fans, doorbells, or extra wiring (which means no internet, cable, or phones in any of the rooms), and the lighting package was pretty basic, too.
We really liked the neighborhood, floorplan (and price) of this house. We were happy to add a few things to make it comfortable since we planned to be here for at least a year. (Although it’s now turning into two… Here is the latest photo update of our owner/builder home build. I know I’ve been hinting about our new house a lot lately. I promise I’m going to write a post very soon detailing all the hurdles of building your own home!)
*update: Here is the post catching you up on our owner-builder home build.
The first thing we did after moving in was to add ceiling fans in every bedroom. This is Texas, and I’m a girl who just runs hot, lol. We also added closet organizers, shelving in the bathrooms and laundry, and a little flower garden in the back. (All with approval, of course.) And thank goodness for all the wireless technology available now… From doorbells to wireless DVRs to internet repeaters and cameras, we’ve been able to make ourselves quite comfy in this house!
We have a big window in the dining room (next to the kitchen) that provides lots of lovely light during the day. At night though, it’s a different story. I really wanted to add a bit more brightness to the kitchen. The project couldn’t be anything that involved electricity or tools since that type of thing is 100% out of my skill set.
The good news is there are tons of battery-powered lighting options available. You can choose from LED light bars, puck lights, or rope lights. Go as fancy as you want – installing lights that come with remotes, motion, or light sensors; or go very basic with switches or the “press on” style light.
In our case, I went with a fairly inexpensive LED Light Bar with a switch.
I wanted to make sure the light would not come loose or fall, so I knew the Gorilla® Tough & Clear Mounting Tape would be perfect for this project. (The Gorilla® Tape is good stuff. We just used the heavy duty version to securely mount a 5 pound stick vacuum to a closet wall in our camper.)
If you’ve never seen the Gorilla® Tough & Clear Mounting Tape before – this stuff is amazing! The mounting tape is a clear double-sided tape that mounts instantly, for a long-lasting, weatherproof bond. The crystal clear adhesive tape is good for indoor and outdoor use. Plus it won’t yellow over time and holds up to 15 pounds (7 pounds for squares.)
The Gorilla® Tough & Clear Mounting Tape made my little project so easy – the hardest part ended up being me trying to get the light out of the ridiculous packaging!
Installing Under Cabinet Lighting with Gorilla Mounting Tape couldn’t be easier!
To install the light bar, cut the Gorilla® Mounting Tape to size and apply it to the bottom of the light fixture…
Peel off the back side of the tape and stick it to the underside of the cabinet!
It’s that easy! For about $60 and 5 minutes, I now have lights under my kitchen cabinets!
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What a genius idea! I would never have thought of using that tape in this way. Such a good idea.
My dream kitchen project would be to put in new cabinets.
Nice update , if I had this the kitchen would be my favorite room !
I like this light idea! I would really like to refinish my cabinets and add these when I’m done!
I wonder if they have Alexa-enabled lights? Anyway, your idea is much better than those LED strip lights! Thank you for posting.
would use in bathroom
I would love to redo our kitchen counters and cabinets.
This looks so easy! I need to try this.
I’d love to redo my cabinets in kitchen and bathrooms. Thank you for the giveaway.
I would love to add a pantry to my kitchen where the previous owners had their laundry! And paint my cabinets… and new counters…
I didn’t know they had tape! That could be useful in so many different projects! I would love under cabinet lighting. I think it makes a kitchen look more homey.
My whole kitchen needs to be redone.The sink, appliances, and the cabinets are scuffed up and old. I hope to at least get new flooring sooner or later. The Gorilla Glue Mounting Tape featured in this blog post is something I’d could’ve used a few months back. I had to install a fluorescent light under my kitchen cabinets and it was difficult. Wish I had know about this Gorilla Mounting Tape.
The LED Light Bars would be a perfect for my kitchen and the Gorella Mounting Tape is amazing!
My kitchen dream project is to upgrade to smart enabled appliances.
Our kitchen is too small. We’d like to expand it
Definitely could use some supplemental lighting under the cabinets. I plan on maybe adding more protection to the splash boards too
I’m dying to have a back splash and a new counter top
I wonder what the value of taping is over just screwing lights in, when you consider the potential for ripping paint off.
My cabinets are laminate on the bottom. If and when I decide to remove them I will you something like dental floss to break the seal and remove the housing of the light from the cabinet. Then I will use something like good off to remove the sticky residue. Seems a lot more simple than drilling holes expcially since I do t like to mess with tools.
I came over to your blog to look at your theme and your recipe plug-in, and I’m so glad that I did because I did not know about Gorilla mounting tape! We live in a really old home so we could use some undercabinet lighting. So glad I saw this. Now I’m thinking of all the ways I could use that mounting tape! My kitchen needs to be remodeled but until we can do that, I’d just like to paint the floor!
Ha ha, I hope you were able to find one that had a recipe card. They don’t all have them since I switched from blogger to WordPress a while back. I’m slowly adding them to my older recipes.
we really need to garden and get the yard fixed up