For some reason, delivery drivers have had trouble finding my house ever since we moved here, especially at night. In my ongoing effort to combat that, I’ve added a fourth house number to the property, this time lit for night right next to the front door.
I started with a bamboo drawer organizer and LED strip light from Lowes. These are “stackable” organizers, so there’s a lip on top, perfect for holding a lid I’ll make out of acrylic to become the house numbers.
I ran the strip light around the inner wall of the bamboo box, and dremeled out a hole for the power cord to come out the bottom.
I then cut a piece of matte white acrylic with my Glowforge to fit the box to act as a diffuser for the light, and cut my house number out of black acrylic and layered that on top of the white.
The strip light has an app, so I scheduled it to turn on at sunset and off at sunrise each night. Problem solved, and the whole project only took an hour or two.
If anyone wants to do the same project, you can buy the bamboo organizer online or in the kitchen cabinets section of Lowes in-store. Target also sells a near-identical one.
To mark the top of my 500 foot driveway, I used a flat solar light from Amazon to backlight a translucent blue rectangular background with white house numbers and attached it with double sided foam tape. The remaining cut out bits were assembled with the white rectangle boasting blue house numbers with an acrylic solvent glue holding things together before mounting under a light on the porch.
Out of curiosity, I typed 172 LED into temu.com and the exact same set came up for $18.47 for the 2 pack. Might have to make something similar for my place.
That’s great to know. I always assumed that cheap solar lights don’t work. These would be good problem-solvers for me too, since my house numbers aren’t in a location where I can easily get power.
I’ve got some harbor freight driveway edge lights. Like 8$ for a 10’ string. One strand lasted like 3 years and may have lasted longer but I had to move and by that time the plastic sheathing had hardened and brittled. Still half worked…the far half…until my dad snagged it with the weed Wacker. But hey, 3 years for 8$. So I bought three more and put them wood side away from the lawnside of the driveway.
You aren’t that much further north than my central nj so a few days of heavy cloud cover prevent them from working and of course the sun’s seasonal pathing can be a pain to deal with, before moving I just gave up on it working during the winter. Sun just would not clear the trees or my house where the tiny panel was in relation to the driveway there.
