The best bathroom lighting can transform this room, creating not just the most functional of spaces but ultimately the most spectacular looking one. Ensuring the right bathroom lighting scheme can also greatly enhance the functionality of this room.
From lighting up the room early in the morning or dimming it late into the evening, bathroom lighting plays a crucial role in bathroom design and helping to set the right scene.
With several types and designs available, there’s a bathroom light to suit every bathroom.
The Bathroom Showroom offers a helpful guide to help you select the best lighting for your customer's bathroom.
What Customers Need to Know Before Installing Bathroom Lighting
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When choosing bathroom lighting, an important consideration is where the lights will be positioned for the best placement. Many people opt for one main central bathroom light, which may work well in a very small bathroom. Yet, with the bathroom playing host to several daily tasks, most bathrooms need to consider additional lighting to highlight such tasks while some may even want to draw attention to specific features of this space.
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Does the lighting placement comply with the necessary bathroom zones? The bathroom zone will determine the required IP rating for each lighting choice used. Therefore, customers will need to be aware of what IP rating is suitable for the bathroom and which zone is the safest choice for installing it. The most common IP ratings for bathroom lights include IP44 and IP65.
Bathroom Lighting Types Explained
There are four main types of lighting including ambient, accent, task, and decorative.
1. Ambient Lighting
Ambient lighting choices have the ability to set the entire tone of the bathroom. Heavily increasing the warmth of this space, ambient lighting can also help improve the depth. Ambient lighting can create a stunning glow effect that works wonders in opening up the entire room. Promoting an inviting atmosphere, ambient lighting examples include cove lighting, ceiling-mounted fixtures, and recessed fluorescents.
2. Accent Lighting
Accent lighting choices work to illuminate and therefore highlight any focal points in the bathroom. This makes them perfect for enhancing certain areas such as architectural details, artwork, furnishings, and focal statement pieces. With the ability to adjust many accent lighting choices for optional direction, examples here include track lighting, recessed lighting, and wall-mounted lighting.
3. Task Lighting
Task lighting choices provide illumination to those areas where it's needed the most. Ensuring all users can focus while promoting a higher level of detail, bathroom task lighting promotes practicality and functionality for all tasks in this room. Working to alienate shadows and cast the right amount of necessary light towards face level, examples of task lighting include vanity lights, magnification lamps, wall sconces, and LED strips.
4. Decorative Lighting
Decorative lighting choices offer creative scope for customers to complete a bathroom as they don't have to be hugely practical. Centred around the concept of creating a focal statement or a centrepiece, decorative bathroom lighting can provide the perfect finishing touch. Working on adding an element of creativity, sophistication, or beauty, decorative lighting examples include pendant fixtures, chandeliers, and flush-fitted lights.
The Styles of Bathroom Lighting
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Bathroom Ceiling Lights
From simple and traditional styles to modern designs that make a statement, we offer several great-looking and functional bathroom ceiling lights. The Hib Horizon, Lumen, and Polar are all LED chrome-finished ceiling lights offering 300 mm diameter. While the immensely functional Hib Rhythm Bluetooth is a ceiling light that can be controlled remotely to provide no less than 12 colours and play music.
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Bathroom Pendant Lights
Our stunning selection of Hib Pendant Lights includes the Peak, Rise, and Summit, which are all LED chrome choices. From retro-styled LEDs with a mellow warm light to daylight illumination, these are all hand-blown glass shades that promote stunning features.
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Bathroom Wall Lights
For the most flush look, bathroom wall lights are ultra slim and modern designs that are so simple to install. Promoting even light distribution is the Hispec wall light, while the Pro-Light wall light offers a colour temperature switch, while the 4Lite wall light can be controlled wirelessly and remotely.
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Bathroom Chandelier Lights
For the most decorative of showpieces in any bathroom design, bathroom chandeliers create an impact. Finished with stunning glass and chrome detailing, our bathroom chandelier lights offer the ability to use LED cost saving lamps with them. These include the Spa Vela, the Spa Orlando, and the Spa Belle.
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Bathroom Spotlights
Popular bathroom lighting choices, spotlights offer bright lighting that can be directed and positioned where it’s needed the most. Our chrome and glass bathroom spotlights from Spa Scopius offer a choice of a 4-light bar or 3-light plate design.
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Bathroom Downlights
Offering more of a beam of concentrated light, bathroom downlights add a superb additional layer of low-profile flush lighting. We provide a vast selection of downlight styles and types from brands including 4Lite, Aurora, Robus, and Pro-Light.
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Bathroom Plinth Lights
Ideal for lighting up bath and basin units, shower units, or simply promoting a stunning background effect, our Pro-Light plinth kits offer warm white, cool white, and blue light choices.
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Bathroom Basin Lights
These selections of lights can work superbly over the basin area as they create a decorative effect while helping with bathroom tasks. Our choices here include the Spa Corvus, the Spa Cali, and the Spa Bari.
If you're looking to shop bathroom lighting for your customer, speak to us at the bathroom showroom. With over 280 showrooms and a renowned history of working with the trade, we're the experts in all things bathrooms.