I also recommend SowiloDS led strips [1]. My family has used these in our various rooms and offices after the start of the pandemic, atop existing shelves or mounted on the wall, and I love them. The amount of light, quality, and light control they provide (with additional Hue controller) is great. I've come to really prefer the diffuse lighting of LED strips over more powerful bulbs, to light a space.
Their Bifrost-168 Pro strip produces up to 2800 lm/m, so 5600 lm for their 2m variant at $60 ($10.71/klm for the strip only), or 14000lm for 5m at $145 ($10.35/klm for the strip only). You could split the 5m into smaller strips, but that's only for experienced solderers.
You can plug them into a Hue controller (sold by Sowilo, likely cannibalized from Hue's own dimmer light strips), or whichever controller you want to use. For me, that control and integration was well worth the increased cost.
I recommend them to anyone who'll listen, and plan on using more of them in any future space.
I mean, I'm talking what is probably the highest-end LED lighting, and I haven't found anything equivalent, feature-wise, on AliExpress. (that said, maybe I missed it! It's a wide, disorganized place)
I have cheaper strips that I use for kitchen counter lighting, under the cabinets, and those work fine for that application. But for my main room lighting, I've come to really appreciate the ability to shift the whitepoint (to such a wide range), and the brightness the Bifrost provide.
Harbor Freight has 4 "bulb" type LED shop lights rated at 10k lumen for under $50 and 5.5k lumen ones for under $25. They're around 6k temperature and can be daisy chained. They aren't configurable, but are a great, cheap way to light garages or work areas.
Their Bifrost-168 Pro strip produces up to 2800 lm/m, so 5600 lm for their 2m variant at $60 ($10.71/klm for the strip only), or 14000lm for 5m at $145 ($10.35/klm for the strip only). You could split the 5m into smaller strips, but that's only for experienced solderers.
You can plug them into a Hue controller (sold by Sowilo, likely cannibalized from Hue's own dimmer light strips), or whichever controller you want to use. For me, that control and integration was well worth the increased cost.
I recommend them to anyone who'll listen, and plan on using more of them in any future space.
[1] https://sowilodesign.com/collections/led-strips