Despite the fact that the bathroom is where most of us start and end our day, most of us seem to pay little heed to the way we light it.  For most people, bathroom lighting is something of a postscript to the rest of our interior decorating schemes; in fact, bathroom wall lights may be so low-down on your list of priorities that they fail to register at all! Such lack of foresight and planning is a huge mistake!  Imagine how much better you would feel emerging to greet your world from a bright, cheerful and, above all, functionally lit room.  Is it over-egging the pudding to say that the correct bathroom lighting can be life-changing?  Well, yes, probably but there is no doubt that a few well chosen bathroom wall lights will brighten your day.

Why wall mounted bathroom lights?  Because they offer the combination of ambience and functionality that every bathroom needs – what use is a bathroom that isn’t functional?  But, by the same token, who wants to spend more time than necessary in a room that’s starkly lit?

Before rushing out and buying those fabulous bathroom lights, however, you need to check out the European Bathroom Lighting Regulations.  These regulations specify what type of electrical equipment can be used in various areas of the room – all electrical equipment, including lighting, designed for bathroom use must be zone marked.  Make sure you choose your light fittings correctly.

If, like the majority of us, you are the proud owner of a less-than spacious bathroom, you might find that wall lights – especially if they are linked to a dimmer switch outside the room – provide all the lighting you need.  Well chosen and sited lights will not only afford good general light levels they will also provide more than adequate task lighting.

When it comes to tasks generally undertaken in the bathroom, for instance, putting on make-up or shaving, daylight spectrum light is best.  For this reason, the best lamps for bathroom lighting are either halogen or LED, both of which emit light that is close to daylight.  Having chosen the correct lamps, however, you need to ensure that you put them in the right place! Get it wrong and, next time you look in the mirror, you won’t like what you see.

Light fittings around the mirror should cast light in four directions, that is, from above and below and from either side, in order to eliminate those pesky shadows.  Hollywood style mirrors had their basis in functionality!  To achieve this happy state of affairs in less than movie-star style, place one wall light above the mirror, and one either side at around eye level.  If your mirror is large, say 1 metre across or more, you will find that the side lights don’t provide adequate illumination. In this instance, an overhead light will fill in the gaps.

So, that’s the task lighting sorted; now to sort out the ambience.  By switching your bathroom light fittings separately you will achieve a truly versatile system.  For shaving or applying make up, just switch on the wall lights both above and beside the mirror but, when languishing in the bath, forget those side lights and just turn on the wall light above the mirror.  If you have a dimmer switch, which will need to be located outside of the bathroom, you can have the lights down nice and low too.

For real mood lighting, just add a few candles!

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If, like most people, your bathroom is simply a ‘pit-stop’ room at either end of your day, you’re missing a trick or two.  Simply by paying attention to the way you illuminate what is possibly the smallest room in your home can make an enormous difference to the way you feel about it.  Bathroom lighting is a sorely neglected art, which is such a shame because something as simple and undemanding as bathroom wall lights could change the way you start your day.

Why wall mounted bathroom lights?  Because they offer the combination of ambience and functionality that every bathroom needs – what use is a bathroom that isn’t functional?  But, by the same token, who wants to spend more time than necessary in a room that’s starkly lit?

And – worthy of a separate paragraph- make sure you understand the bathroom lighting regulations, which are, quite necessarily, strict on what lights you can have where.  It’s been said before but it won’t hurt to say it again: water and electricity do not make good bedfellows!

In most modern bathrooms, which are, shall we say, bijoux, just placing wall lights around the mirror area will be enough to provide soft ambient light as well as exceptionally practical task lighting.

When it comes to tasks generally undertaken in the bathroom, for instance, putting on make-up or shaving, daylight spectrum light is best.  For this reason, the best lamps for bathroom lighting are either halogen or LED, both of which emit light that is close to daylight.  Having chosen the correct lamps, however, you need to ensure that you put them in the right place! Get it wrong and, next time you look in the mirror, you won’t like what you see.

Bathroom wall lights placed to either side and above the mirror will achieve much the same effect.  The only exception to this is if you have an exceptionally large mirror, in which case you will need added light from a ceiling pendant.

So, that’s the task lighting sorted; now to sort out the ambience.  By switching your bathroom light fittings separately you will achieve a truly versatile system.  For shaving or applying make up, just switch on the wall lights both above and beside the mirror but, when languishing in the bath, forget those side lights and just turn on the wall light above the mirror.  If you have a dimmer switch, which will need to be located outside of the bathroom, you can have the lights down nice and low too.

A few candles, et voila, instant sanctuary.

View our full bathroom wall light range

The bathroom’s a funny old room, isn’t it – filled and fought over at peak times then sadly neglected for the rest of the day – perhaps that’s why bathroom lighting comes as an afterthought in many people’s interior dcor plans.
Ironically, the way you choose to illuminate your bathroom is probably more important than for any other room.  In fact, poor bathroom lighting can set you off on the wrong foot for the rest of the day.

Why wall mounted bathroom lights?  Because they offer the combination of ambience and functionality that every bathroom needs – what use is a bathroom that isn’t functional?  But, by the same token, who wants to spend more time than necessary in a room that’s starkly lit?

And – worthy of a separate paragraph- make sure you understand the bathroom lighting regulations, which are, quite necessarily, strict on what lights you can have where.  It’s been said before but it won’t hurt to say it again: water and electricity do not make good bedfellows!

In most modern bathrooms, which are, shall we say, bijoux, just placing wall lights around the mirror area will be enough to provide soft ambient light as well as exceptionally practical task lighting.

When it comes to tasks generally undertaken in the bathroom, for instance, putting on make-up or shaving, daylight spectrum light is best.  For this reason, the best lamps for bathroom lighting are either halogen or LED, both of which emit light that is close to daylight.  Having chosen the correct lamps, however, you need to ensure that you put them in the right place! Get it wrong and, next time you look in the mirror, you won’t like what you see.

Bathroom wall lights placed to either side and above the mirror will achieve much the same effect.  The only exception to this is if you have an exceptionally large mirror, in which case you will need added light from a ceiling pendant.

So, that’s the task lighting sorted; now to sort out the ambience.  By switching your bathroom light fittings separately you will achieve a truly versatile system.  For shaving or applying make up, just switch on the wall lights both above and beside the mirror but, when languishing in the bath, forget those side lights and just turn on the wall light above the mirror.  If you have a dimmer switch, which will need to be located outside of the bathroom, you can have the lights down nice and low too.

For real mood lighting, just add a few candles!

View our full bathroom wall light range