This is a replacement for our aging mailbox. I wanted to do a somewhat mid-century design since the house and rest of the neighborhood was built in that time. I also wanted to make the numbers visible at night if possible.
After playing around with some different designs and lighting ideas, I settled on this design where several cedar boards make up the sweeping profile, and the house numbers are directly carved into those boards so that they can be backlit by an LED strip. Everything is mounted to a 4×4 post which is set 24in deep and with a little bit of concrete. Translucent white acrylic acts as a diffuser so that it appears the numbers and front of the mailbox itself are glowing.
The lighting is provided by a 1m long 24v COB LED strip connected to a small solar panel battery. These were purchased off the shelf.
