which is "building WITH LED strips". I once "built" a LED-matrix display from strips, because it was a demo project and money for HW was scarce (and time to short to look into fabrication for a non-EE-person; also brightness maxes out at 1000cd/m² last I checked) - I seriously came there for some info how you created your own, cheap DIY high-density setup for the WS-LEDs (cooling becomes also a problem eventually for high brightness, so I was looking forward to a solution to this problem). Instead I got the blog equivalent of a YT-video: how to decorate your room in 5 easy steps.

BTW: You actually did do nothing more than buying a bunch of strips, I don't see a big technical difference between hue and chinese strips + a chinese hue-bridge except for the soldering (but afaik they also offer connectors for solderless application...). So you might change the title to: "setting up a chineses hue replacement for cheap with soldering" (though I would expect pictures of your soldering then...