Alcove lighting/LED strip advice

[drives]

Hi all,

I'm renovating a fireplace in our living room as part of a complete refurb. I've attached a photo of what it looks like now, and an AI generated image of what it will roughly look like when done hopefully. It will be clad in tiles with oak shelving:

My query is how best to install the alcove lighting strip. What I believe I need is some form of concealed compartment somewhere to have power, and store the LED driver. The fluted tiles that I have are actually full height so installing some form of hidden compartment with a removable tile section at the front will break the grout lines. Any suggestions of how best to approach this? It is an external wall.

There's definitely no other way is there, without having some form of void space to have a plug socket and the LED driver? It is only around 170mm deep

 

[ericmark]

I have found, unless you can easily turn it on/off when entering or leaving the room, after 6 months never used. So my lighting is all WiFi connected, so a single voice command can turn it off, this often means it needs a fair bit of space and a socket to supply it. I have the units hidden behind ornaments, but at this stage you can arrange some sort of box to put it all in.

 

[jj4091]

What are you going to do with the openining. You may be able to get a supply from the clock socket and run a cable down into it then through the side to your leds and conceal any controls in the chimney breast.

 

[SUNRAY]

Leave the timber shelf loose and create a void under it.