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If you’ve been watching a gamer’s Twitch or YouTuber’s livestreams lately, you may have noticed some geometric LED shapes in interesting patterns popping up in the background of their home setup, lighting the room with a cool and comfortable glow.
These aren’t your typical, traditional string or strip LED lights either. The shapes are varying degrees of thickness, and the lighting effects they can provide are smooth and soothing, instantly altering the ambience of any room. You won’t need to put holes in your wall either, as they’re often light enough to stay up with only double-sided adhesive tape.
The best decorative LED wall lights are customizable enough to enhance any home setup, providing a comfortable (and your own customizable arrangement) presence to any room in the house. Connecting them up is quick and easy, as is locking them into place, and changing them around to find that perfect spacial harmony.
These can often work with Stream Deck, as well as smart home systems like Alexa, Google Home and Apple HomeKit. Some have their own smartphone apps that put you in power of adjusting everything from voice control to “music mode,” where the lighting matches the beat of whatever you’re playing, then stops when things go silent.
While their main purpose is decorative, these LED wall lights can also provide some pretty decent lighting, including the USB-powered ones. Plus, they’re lightweight and don’t heat up like a regular bulb does after being on for long stretches.
The most difficult part of owning these is choosing the perfect pattern, as they’re endlessly fun to reconfigure and switch up. But ultimately, the design decision is totally up to you to experiment with, adding new life to your lighting on walls or even on your ceiling.
