This allows you to create complex designs that stretch across the set.

Which means each tile can be 64 colours at once (unlike the Nanoleaf Canvas, which has smaller, far less bright panels that can be only one colour at a time). The system is made up of a set of 20 cm x 20 cm lighting panels each containing a grid of 8 x 8 LEDs that can light up in pretty well any colour you choose. It can be used to light your house, yes, but it can also be used as an ever-changing lighting feature in your home – one you stick on the wall with double-sized adhesive tape and use to paint colour and light according to your mood, your decor or, in the spirit of Happy Home Maintenance, whatever brightness and colour the Tile was set to last, before the controls stopped working. The LIFX Tile lets you paint colours on your wall to match your decor. Like the Nanoleaf Canvas, the LIFX Tile is a Wi-Fi (perfect!), internet (perfect!) and voice-AI powered (perfect!) lighting system that is so much more than mere illumination.

In fact, there is nothing quite like it, apart from the Nanoleaf Canvas which we reviewed last year, but it does allow you to achieve Step 1 in the broad sense (as you will see, you can use it to replace light globes), and it does allow you to achieve Step 2, 3, 4 and 5 very nicely, thank you very much. This amazing device isn't a one-for-one replacement of anything in your home. Which brings us to the topic of this week's episode, the Tile by Australian gadget company LIFX. Step 6 Wait for the laws of probability to take effect.Step 5 Control it with a voice-powered artificial intelligence, such as Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa or Siri, which mostly don't work.Step 4 Attach it to the internet, preferably via the NBN, which mostly works.Step 3 Put that new gadget on a wireless network, such as your home Wi-Fi network, which mostly works.Step 2 Replace it with a high-tech gadget which mostly works, such as a remote-controlled power switch.Step 1 Find something that works reliably and will go on working reliably long after you're dead, such as a simple power switch.

Regular readers of this irregular column will know that achieving a state of Happy Home Maintenance is a six-step process: Welcome to another episode of our occasional series Happy Home Maintenance, an advice column for people who either don't own a home or own one that is already shipshape and so feel they are missing out on the happiness that comes with having things to maintain.

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