I didn't have a ton of expectations going in to buying these lights. However, I had a couple things that I wanted the lights to accomplish: 1) I wanted lights to lighten our stairway at night without having the main lights on. 2) I needed something that didn't have to plug in because there wasn't a handy plug near the stairs. 3) I wanted to be able to adjust brightness so we could have it dim during sleep hours if we needed to get up for the bathroom or something, but brighter during the evening when we were still awake for aesthetics. The bonus really was the remote control and the other settings. The lights were SUPER easy to install and even come with little things to hold the lights in place if you have (I imagine) stucco walls where the adhesive may have a harder time gripping to (I guess this because stucco never lets me stick anything to those walls - could be wrong and this adhesives great to those walls). Regardless, in case the adhesive isn't enough for your walls, you have added flexible grip things to keep the lights in place. We haven't added them yet and the lights are staying up great all on adhesive alone. The installation of the lights was crazy easy. I just gradually pulled off the adhesive protection as I rolled the lights on the wall. Maybe took me 2 minutes in total. Depending on how often you use the lights, you may go through batteries decently quick. We leave our lights on for probably 8-12 hours every day. We also use rechargeable batteries with these lights as we are regular users of them. In the just over a month that we've had them, with regular use, we've switched out the batteries once. Not too much more to say, these work great for lighting and they look really nice. They would work great as under lighting for cabinets, but these aren't like fairy lights for decoration. They are nice, but I wouldn't say they are for centerpiece decoration or festivities, more background.
