Sunday, October 2, 2011

Determining The Right Bathroom Lights

By Richard Paul


Every room of your house serves a special purpose to meet your needs. For instance, you entertain your guests in the living room, cook your food in the kitchen and have your meals in the dining room. But have you ever thought of a certain room in your house where you go first from the time you wake up and the last place before you go to bed at night? A room that is made purposely to service your personal hygienic needs? You are right! It's the bathroom.

In the olden times, a bathroom was designed as basic as possible and lit up merely by an overhead fluorescent light fixture. It may be convenient to some although not definitely advisable. Nowadays most home owners are generally giving more attention to build their bathroom as they undertake with the all the other rooms of their residence.

Nonetheless, these features can further be emphasized by highlighting it through the use of proper bathroom lights thus appropriate attention should be observed. By using the right lighting fixtures a warm ambiance can be created to the room as well as for the convenience of its users.

It should be kept in mind that bathroom lights should be selected based on the bathroom's design and theme. It should not be too bright or too dim as the wrong choice of lightning fixtures can ruin the bathroom's total look. The following suggestions can be taken into account while installing suitable lights in your bathroom.

1) In the lack of natural light in your bathroom, pendant lights, bathroom ceiling lights, recessed lights or perhaps chandeliers can be fitted to work as ambient lighting. These kinds of bathroom lights basically furnish brightness and specifically point on to the floor. Although a dimmer switch is suggested so that it can be manipulated according to mood while having a calming bath after a very long and exhausting day.

2) On another hand, the vanity area of the bathroom in which you perform your daily face grooming needs should be well illuminated having a sconce or vanity bathroom light attached to the wall or right above the mirror. It has to be radiant enough to light up the face and the neck and not too glaring, likewise, need to be shadow less.

3) In addition, you can actually highlight a certain area in the bathroom say for example a piece of art, distinctive design features or even a attractive tiling with the use of accent lighting. This can give importance and can bring more attention to the item.

It is no doubt that perfect bathroom lights can enhance the bathroom design making it more stylish and relaxing. Lighting fixtures should provide practical illumination to fit your needs while additional lights should create serenity and elegance as well as comfort. Therefore, to help you decide and choose the right lighting fixtures several factors like the size of the room, style of the interior and the illumination required should always be considered to generate the desired elegant aesthetic appearance.




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