The bathroom in the house is a very special room that must satisfy all the whims of the owners. In the bathroom every day, all family members are several times, so it is very important to provide everything possible for the comfortable and efficient use of this room. During the construction or repair of the bathroom, special attention should be paid not only to the choice of plumbing, but also to lighting. The convenience of operation and the aesthetics of the bathroom depend on how competently it is established. Today we will talk about how to connect the backlight in the bathroom.
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We need more light
What we are used to seeing, going into the bathroom-a bath (cabin), a sink, a shower shelter, towels, and all this is illuminated by a single bulb under the ceiling. It sounds sad, but it looks even sadder. If you want to leave such a “barbaric” way of lighting in the past and make a place from your bathroom, where you want to stay as long as possible, choose the correct backlight.
If you make a backlight in the bathroom competently, you can visually expand and give “airiness” even the most tiny room, emphasize all the advantages of the interior and focus on functional areas. Light helps not only to highlight the advantages of the room, but also to hide the shortcomings, to make the atmosphere of vigorous, romantic or pacifying.
But first of all, backlighting is necessary to comply with proper hygiene conditions. It is clear that most people perform all the usual actions automatically, but, you see, it is much more convenient to do this in good lighting. Plus, a sufficient amount of light will facilitate and speed up the cleaning in the room, because everything will be in the palm of your hand.
Some believe that one ceiling lamp is enough for a small bathroom. But let's look at this moment in more detail. In the most ordinary bathroom, in addition to plumbing, there is a lot of things: cosmetics, sponges, towels, hair dryers, electric shoes, household chemicals, washing machine ... The list can be continued, but it is already clear - in order to normally illuminate each object of one light bulb is clearly not enough. It is especially difficult to organize the illumination of the bathroom with your own hands in Soviet houses, since the quadrature there is very modest and contains a lot of objects.
A bathroom with an area of \u200b\u200b4 m² should have at least 2 lamps, and ideally lighting devices should be in each functional area. For example, in order to apply cosmetics or comb your hair, you need a lot of light in the area of \u200b\u200bthe mirror; To find the desired cream or take a razor, it will not hurt to put the shelf in the bathroom with lighting. If you approach the issue thoroughly, then the lamps should be installed so that the light is evenly distributed at the top, bottom and central part of the bath. Most of the world should be in the middle - 70 cm from the floor to the level of the person’s face. But this parameter can vary depending on the average growth of the residents, so it must be adjusted individually.
If the bathroom is very small, then here, in fact, you can limit yourself to one good lamp. But it should be powerful enough and scatter the light evenly over the entire area. But if we are talking about the room more than 5 m², the lamps should be installed on the mirror, and near the bath or shower, on the ceiling and even in the floor. For very large bathrooms, you can purchase decorative lighting devices, which will simultaneously be an additional light source and fill a spacious area.
For simultaneous illumination of the ceiling and walls, it is better to choose fluorescent or halogen lamps. In the process of installation, it is important to correctly direct the flow of light - it must go strictly down to illuminate the surface of the floor, table and shelves. Sometimes the lamps can give too bright light and blind your eyes, then they can be turned a little sideways.
Lighting zones
We have already mentioned functional areas several times, and now we got close to this topic. Even the smallest bathroom requires zoning. This means that the room must be visually distinguished by several sectors: a bath or shower, a sink and adjacent shelves with cosmetics and a mirror, a working area with soap, powders, a washing machine, an ironing board, etc. Depending on the quadrature, the scale of these sectors may vary, as well as their number. If there are niches in the room, you can make small separate zones with individual lighting from them.
Perhaps, from the most important subject, the bath should start. The old -sample products are not distinguished by grace and technical perfection, but today you can find truly unusual baths with mounted backlighting. Such plumbing looks very impressive and meets all safety standards. But not everyone can afford to acquire a luminous bath, so we will look at how to easily illuminate an ordinary bath.
Bath zoning options using light:
- Install the lamp directly above the bathroom so that the beam of directed light comes from it, immersing the rest of the space into the twilight. Then in such a bath it will be possible to completely relax and let your eyes rest.
- Break a sconce with a lampshade of colored glass, then the situation will acquire a more calm and romantic mood.
- If the bathroom has a low ceiling, but the quadrature is quite large, group several multi -colored lamps in one place on the ceiling. Then you can achieve the effect of color distinction between space - shades will gently change each other, creating an unusual atmosphere.
- To beautifully highlight water, use a floor floor lamp about 2 m high. Naturally, lighting devices applicable to the living room or kitchen cannot be used for the bathroom. They must comply with certain standards. The most important rule for all bulbs in the bathroom is not to let water. Labachors, stands and other details should also have water -repellent characteristics.
- Place the lamps on each element of plumbing - a sink, a crane, a bath or shower. The main thing is that lighting devices do not interfere with the functionality of the room. That is why many choose built -in or floor lighting. The latter is more likely to a decorative type, but it cannot be denied that in the bathroom with bulbs in the floor is much lighter than without them. Now in almost every plumbing store you can find faucets with built -in backlight. “Color Water” looks very beautiful - the bulb is aimed at the filter and gives pouring water the desired shade.
The floor of the floor in the bathroom should be made using special lamps that can withstand the load, friction and direct contact with water. The design should be completely sealed and anti -suggested. The ideal option would be lamps designed for installation in garden areas (backlighting paths, stairs, etc.). These are small products with a diameter of 5 cm, which are installed on the floor to a depth of 9 cm. It is obvious that the installation of such a backlight for the bathroom requires slightly lifting the floor level. The power of the bulbs in such lamps usually does not exceed 5 watts.
Bath back
There are so many options for lamps for the bath that it is sometimes very difficult to make a choice - I would like to install as many different bulbs, LEDs and ribbons as possible. But an excess of forms, flowers and degrees of brightness can play against you. To make harmonious and functional lighting, equip the most important functional zones first, and then see if you need to add light, or everything is already good.
LED backlight in the bathroom looks very beautiful, which frames the bath or the floor around it. LEDs can lay out a chaotic composition that imitates the starry sky. Just imagine how it will be magical to rest, lying in warm water after a hard day and admiring the flickering "constellations"!
LED lamps are ideal for the bathroom:
- For their work, a low voltage is enough, so they can be installed without fear in rooms with an increased level of humidity.
- They are completely safe from an environmental point of view.
- You can reduce or increase the intensity of the glow of LED lamps.
- LEDs save a lot of electricity compared to conventional “Ilyich bulbs” and even with energy -saving lamps. Electricity costs are reduced by 60-70%.
LEDs allow you to organize targeted lighting, directing the light into the desired area, for example, above the sink, by the mirror, in the shower or on the shelves. You can install a cabinet for a bathroom with backlight, which works when opening the door, like in the refrigerator.
Light from the ceiling
The winding of the ceiling in the bathroom can be performed using spotlights, long halogen lamps, LED strips and other electrical devices. For a small room on the ceiling, one lamp is enough, and the rest of the backlight can be dispersed on the walls, plumbing and floor.
In large rooms, lamps in the ceiling should be located above the bathroom, washing machine and sink. It is not necessary to use powerful lamps, moreover, it is better to limit yourself to not very bright lamps and solve the issue not by quality, but by quantity. Low -power LEDs, for example, can be installed almost everywhere, including in the ceiling, and electricity will go to them as little.
When organizing backlighting in the bathroom, it is recommended to pay attention to products with conductive elements and tires, since they can significantly expand the range of capabilities. Halogen lamps are open and built -in. The latter are installed in a suspension type from a waterproof drywall or plywood. Also on the market you can find halogen lamps that crash directly into concrete ceilings.
As a rule, such devices give a directed stream of light, which goes strictly to the floor. This solution is not always convenient, so you should put additional spotlights to get multiple light.
Halogen lamps are completely different, and they can be attached to any surface. With their help, you can make bright backlight in the wall in the bathroom, in the closet or under the sink. You can create original combinations with mobile light sources, which at any time can be expanded in the right direction or even removed.
Mirror lamps
Experts recommend installing the backlight not above the mirror, but on both sides of it, so that the face is lit evenly. If the light will go from above or only on one side, a shadow will fall on an uncontagent part of the face, which very interferes when applying makeup or during skin care procedures. You can hang sconces, put spotlights, but the most unusual and original effect is achieved thanks to LED ribbons. It is only necessary to attach them around the perimeter of the mirror so that the light spread evenly.
Rules for the organization of lighting for the mirror:
- Choose fairly bright lamps, but so that they do not blind. The best option would be a bright diffused light from matte lamps. Also, a good “scatter” is a lampshade made of white plastic or glass.
- Do not install colored lampshades or lamps so as not to distort the reflection.
- Place the lamps on both sides of the mirror symmetrically so as not to get light -legged transitions.
- If a wide mirror is installed in your bathroom, then to illuminate it completely, there will be few two bulbs on the sides. In this case, place light sources at an altitude of about 2 m from the floor with an equal step of the installation.
- For medium -sized mirrors, framing the LED ribbon around the perimeter is best suited.
- The type of lamp can be any, but its spectrum should be as close as possible to the spectrum of natural light.
If you are not sure that you can independently correctly install the light in the working area, it may be better to purchase a mirror with backlighting in the bathroom.
Bathroom backlight photo
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