Closet cabinet LED lighting wire management ideas?

[Scorpion]

I'm in the process of building some cabinets for the master closet and I'm building LED lights into them.  For the fixed shelves the wiring is an easy activity.  For the moveable shelves (via LR32), not so much.  I've seen Cort's thread where he very cleverly powered the shelf pins however, at the scale of my project, I'd end up with many hours of work to do the same thing.  Such effort wouldn't really benefit me much and would likely only be for the next owner considering my shelves won't move much once initially set.  So I'm attempting to come up with a simpler, though likely less slick way to hide the wiring.

My current thought is to use some kind of a maple wire loom or channel that I could tuck into the corner of each cabinet.  Yes I'd have to notch each shelf and potentially re-connect a shelf to wires each time it's moved but I can live with these downsides dice the fab time becomes nearly zero.  So two questions:

(1) is anyone aware of maple (colored) u-channel or loom that can be purchased?

(2) any other interesting ideas?  I thought of using the flat wire (made specifically for LED lights) and painting it...

 

[waterloomarc]

Where can you find the flat wire? I remember seeing it a few years ago but came up empty on a recent search.

Edit: never mind. I added LED to my search string and lo and behold got the hits I was looking for.

 

[Holmz]

TruePosition jig and puck LEDs...

 

[jeh]

Depending on the cabinet/builtin height and style I will put in fixed shelves in the middle of the cabinet in 1 or more places that are made of (2) 3/4" boards. I put a 1/2" dado cut on the underside of the top board going from the light location to the back or side of the cabinet. I then use a forstner bit to cut out the opening of for the light (I mostly use puck lights).

A simpler option could be to route a dado for the wire and then cover it with a very thin piece of wood that is just slightly larger than your dado and as low profile as is reasonable (maybe 1/4" x 3/4").

Either way make sure that you leave enough space to remove the wire should one of your lights need to be replaced.

Also the height of my fixed shelves will be as thin as 1 1/2" to whatever thickness fits in with the rest of the cabinet. Glass shelves and push the light through more than one shelf to avoid having to have lights on every shelf.

The attached photo shows a smaller cabinet with slightly larger spacing. Photo taken before the face frame was installed.

 

[Bohdan]

[member=27782]Scorpion[/member]

If your cabinets are having a face frame then run the wire up the back of the frame with a connector on each front end of the shelf, still hidden by the face frame.

 

[Holmz]