Stairlume — Rechargeable Motion Sensor Stair Light
You've lived here six years and you still put your hand out on the stairs at 2am. Walk down, it's lit, it goes off behind you — and nobody upstairs turns over.
It reads movement out to 3-5 metres across a 120° spread and stays on for 20 seconds, then shuts itself off.
There's also a manual on/off mode if you'd rather hold it lit.
It's warm white and aimed down, so it puts a clear pool of light on the treads without the glare of an overhead.
Bright enough to see every step, dim enough that your eyes don't reset.
Your order is dispatched within 24–48 hours and typically arrives within 5–9 business days.
You'll get a tracking link the moment it ships, so you can follow it door to door.
Ordering from outside the US?
Allow 7–10 business days.
Every order is covered by our 60-day quiet-stairs promise, starting the day your order arrives.
Many issues are solved without sending anything back — damaged, wrong, or ill-fitting items are typically replaced free.
No extra taxes or shipping charges.
What you see is what you pay.
You get down the stairs and back up with everyone still asleep
It's 2am and the baby's going, or your bladder is, and there are two ways down.
You hit the hall light and the whole house knows about it — your partner turns over, the kid upstairs half-wakes, and your own eyes need twenty seconds to recover before you can even see the treads.
Or you go without it.
One hand on the wall, feeling for the turn, phone in the other hand if you can spare it.
Six years in this house and you still put your hand out.
That's the part nobody says out loud — that you don't quite trust your own stairs in the dark, and you've stopped expecting to.
It's a few minutes a night, a partner who sleeps worse than they should, and a small dread at the top step that you've decided is normal.
It's already lit before you reach the top step
The sensor reads movement out to 3-5 metres across a 120° spread, which is wider than your stairwell.
So it doesn't wait for you to arrive — it catches you as you come out of the bedroom door, and by the time your foot finds the first tread the stairs are already lit.
Twenty seconds, then it goes off behind you.
Long enough to get down.
Short enough that it isn't burning all night or glowing under a bedroom door at 3am.
200 lumens of warm white, aimed at the treads rather than at your face.
Press it, it stays lit.
On the wall in a minute, and it never needs new batteries
There's no wiring, no switch to fit, no outlet to be near.
That's the whole reason it can go where your stairs actually need it.
The back has a built-in magnet and an adhesive pad, so it goes onto a stair rail bracket, a radiator, a metal door frame, or straight onto plaster.
One minute, no drill, no electrician.
Which also means you can take it down and move it if you put it in the wrong spot.
Inside is a 400mAh rechargeable cell that fills up over USB.
No hunting for AAAs at 11pm, no drawer full of dead ones, no light that quietly dies in December and you don't notice until you need it.
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How it works
Three things happen, and you don't do any of them.
Peel the adhesive pad or click it onto anything metal — a stair rail bracket, a radiator, a door frame. No screws, no wiring, no outlet needed.
The sensor picks up movement out to 3-5 metres across a 120° spread, so the stairs light before your foot finds the first tread.
Twenty seconds of warm white on the treads, then dark again. Nothing burning all night, nothing glowing under a bedroom door.
What the dark stairs are already costing you
You could spend each year:
- $150-$400 to have an electrician run a switched light into a stairwell that was never wired for one
- $8-$12 a year on AAA batteries for a night light that dies without warning and always at the worst moment
- Every night, one partner sleeping worse because the hall light goes on at 2am
Stairlume is $24.99 once. It charges over USB, it goes up in a minute, and nobody upstairs has to know you were awake.
Free with your order: where to put a light on your stairs
A $9.99 value, yours free with every Stairlume purchase.
- The height to mount it on a stairwell wall so it catches you at the top step, not three steps down
- Why the light at the bottom of the stairs should face the wall, not the hallway
- The one placement that makes a bedroom door glow at 3am — and where to move it instead
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Questions, answered
It reads movement across a 120° spread out to 3-5 metres and stays lit for 20 seconds before switching itself off.
A cat at floor level well below the sensor usually won't trigger it, but if your stairwell is narrow you can angle it down at the treads.
There's also a manual on/off mode if you want it lit and left alone.
On smooth plaster, tile or painted MDF the pad holds well.
On heavily textured or freshly painted walls, adhesive of any kind is unreliable — use the built-in magnet on a stair rail bracket, radiator, metal door frame or hinge instead.
Most buyers with rough walls end up on the magnet and never move it again.
It's warm white and pointed at the treads rather than out into the room, so it puts a clear pool of light on the steps in front of you.
It's not a ceiling light and it isn't meant to be — the point is seeing every step without your eyes resetting to full brightness at 2am.
It runs on a 400mAh rechargeable cell that fills over USB.
With normal night-time use — a few triggers an evening — buyers report charging it every few weeks rather than every few days.
There are no AAAs to buy and none to find dead in a drawer.
Your order is dispatched within 24–48 hours and typically arrives within 5–9 business days.
You'll get a tracking link the moment it ships, so you can follow it door to door.
Ordering from outside the US?
Allow 7–10 business days.
Put it on your stairs and use it for 60 nights.
If you're still reaching for the ceiling light or your phone on the way down, send it back and pay nothing.
60-day quiet-stairs promise
"Put it on your stairs and use it for 60 nights. If you're still reaching for the ceiling light or your phone on the way down, send it back and pay nothing."
Sixty nights is enough to know.
Either you stopped putting your hand out on the wall, or you didn't.
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Light where the stairs are dark, and nobody upstairs has to know.