Wiring Kitchen’s Cabinet Lighting

Cabinet lighting is somehow a great attachment to any kitchen, since it is effectively enlighten the dark corner inside the cabinet. Under cabinet lighting is even giving such enormous tone of light to your kitchen. Frankly speaking, add this cabinet lighting to your kitchen décor can really effective in bringing the new breeze to your simple kitchen. Wiring up your kitchen by yourself is not quite a difficult task to do, as long as you get the basic skill of dealing with electricity.

Surely the first thing you have to do is planning the circuit layout. Here you have to make sure that you avoid lighting on high load circuit like refrigerator and microwave. It can be really harmful to your whole circuit as well as your own safety. Next, you will need to add in a 20-amp ground fault protected circuit to your electrical box. Use 12 gauge length of copper wire and run it from your electrical box through the attic and drop it to the wall you want to locate your lights. After cutout a new electrical outlet, install a regular 2-way light switch, wire it up and finally, install the lights. You can place the lights both inside and under the cabinets. This is the simplest way of wiring your kitchen’s cabinet lighting.