It really depends on what you want in terms of light level and color program/blending. I am installing a DMX controller and a bunch of decoders to run LED strips around an entire room, sorta a cove ceiling. I use high power LED strips that have the RGB LED on the same die as the white and allow independent brightness control for the white and RGB channels, so you get very good color blending and true white (basically, this set up was described technically in an earlier response, I a, trying to give some context). However, this requires 2x 200W meanwell 24V power supplies, a shit ton of wiring and I have 5 decoders all stacked on a board behind the wall I am feeding through. This will let me light up the entire room, to reading levels or higher, or dim to movie theater intensity.
If this is what you want, you don't have much choice, gotta go high power to make real light. If you want to accent light you can run much lower power strips, one tip to keep brightness up/even is to feed power to both ends of a long run. The strips you get for 30 bucks are great standalone for accent lighting, but they don't always play well if you need longer runs due to voltage drop and probably many/most will be painful to customize by feeding power to both ends etc. There are any number of excellent resources on line that will let you calculate all this. I am confident you can put something together that will look super cool! Have fun fishing wire through the ceiling joists to hide all this and make it look good.... there is no getting around that part.
Covington, LA
Ikast
Also do you plan on making the room black light and having bl carpet?
Toronto, ON
