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Installing recessed lighting into stairs
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Exactly. This is how 95% of these custom lighting features work. It's probably just basic off-the-shelf low voltage LED strip lights (12v or 24v). Low voltage wires then run to a transformer in a hidden (but still accessible) location, which is then plugged into a switched receptacle.
In the case of your stairs, you just need to have a groove in the bottom of the stair nose that's wide enough to conceal the LED strip. Then poke a tiny hole through to the back side of the stairs (usually this area is just used as a storage closet anyway) and make up all of your low voltage wires and transformer there where it's out of sight.