Bathroom Lighting: Ideal Positioning of Lights
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The placement of lights throughout your classic bathroom design is obviously necessary to make it functional. It is necessary that you have at least one light, preferably on the ceiling, to make sure that your guests don’t trip around when using your bathroom. However, strategic bathroom lighting can actually be used to accent the room and make it look and feel more elegant. Here are some of the common places wherein people place their lights and a brief description on each.
Around the Mirror
Vanity lights are a great way to add class and sophistication to your bathroom. People usually place them near the vicinity of the mirror to give it a celebrity-dressing-room kind of vibe. If you want to maximize the light coverage of your vanity lights then you should place them beside your mirror. Make sure to align the light to your face when looking at the mirror, so as to minimize the shadows. On the other hand, most light fixtures look better when placed above the mirror. Fixtures with open diffusers fall under this category. Make sure that you try it out first to see where your light will look best before mounting it on the wall.
On the Mirror Itself
Bathroom lighting fixtures are not as simple as they seem and are actually very easy to make the mistake of placing your lights at the wrong place. However, great bathrooms require great risks (and costs) to become as beautiful as they are. To do so, some people choose to place the lights on the mirror itself. These are usually done for large, round and plate-shaped mirrors. Placing your lights on the mirror itself makes it look more elegant but it requires you to coordinate with your contractor, electrician and the people who customize glass pieces.
The Beauty of Recessed Lights
Installing recessed lights is also a great way to add some flavor to your bathroom. It is advisable to use recessed lights for the ceiling of your bathroom to give an effect that the light is coming from an invisible source. People also sometimes place recessed lights near mirrors. This is a little trickier to do as it combines some elements of both light placements previously discussed. You have to make sure that the light does not create too many shadows when looking at your face in the mirror while keeping in mind how you will physically install the recessed light. Most people tend to position recessed lights as close as possible to the mirror’s plane.
Whatever type of bathroom wall lighting you choose, just make sure that it is consistent with the overall theme of your bathroom so as to avoid contradictions in design.
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