Adjustable single button LED dimmer

I'm planning on adding some LED strips to my bed. I currently have one small light next to it, and it's always annoying to find the switch, it often ends up with the light on the ground. And when it's on, it's usually too bright. So I thought, what if I add a LED strip to the back of my bed? And what if I could switch it on and off by just touching some part of the frame?

I have one of these IKEA bedframes. Putting a LED strip on the back of the headboard should provide a decent amount of light. Adding a capacitive touch sensor at a sensible, easy to reach part of the frame would make a nice on/off switch, possibly concealed by a piece of matching veneer for good looks.

But what about the brightness? I'd like to be able to control the brightness without having to deal with potentiometers or reprogramming. Well, my sister in law has one of those IKEA lamps that you can turn on and off by just touching it. What's even cooler is that you can adjust its brightness by just holding it.

The logic behind it is pretty simple. Touch (a button) shortly and it will switch the light on/off. Hold it longer and the brightness increases until it reaches full brightness, after that it will decrease. If you let go and hold it again the direction of brightness change also changes. Like this:

I'm using a touch resistor here since my capacitive touch sensors haven't arrived yet, but the effect is almost the same. Touching that strip at a given place will make it have a resistance between 0 and 10KOhm. It's like a potentiometer and the strip is the wiper.

I'm using a small BC337 transistor here to drive the LED, but I can use it for LED strips as well (up to about 1.5 meter) which will be perfect.

There's also a bit of fading code in there to smoothly turn the light on and off. The PWM signal is generated in software using a timer. The code is not really worth sharing at the moment and shouldn't be hard to figure out.