The bathroom in the house is a completely special room that must meet all the whims of the owners. In the bathroom every day several times there are all family members, so it is very important to ensure everything possible for the comfort 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 lighting. From how correctly it will be installed, the convenience of operation and aesthetics of the bathroom depends. Today we will talk about how to connect the backlight in the bathroom.
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Need more light
What we are accustomed to see, entering the bathroom - bath (cabin), sink, shelves for shower, towels, and all this is illuminated by a single light bulb under the ceiling. Sounds sad, and looks even sadder. If you want to leave such a "barbarian" way of lighting in the past and make a place from your bathroom, where you want to stay as long as possible, select 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 emphasize the functional areas. The light helps not only to highlight the merits of the room, but also to hide the flaws, make the situation in a vigorous, romantic or pacifying.
But first of all, the backlight is necessary to comply with the proper hygiene conditions. It is clear that all the usual action most people make automatically, but, you see, it is much more convenient to do it with good lighting. Plus, a sufficient amount of light will facilitate and speed up the cleaning in the room, because everything will be on the palm.
Some believe that one ceiling lamp is enough for a small bathroom. But let's consider 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 shavers, household chemicals, washing machine ... You can continue the list, but it becomes clear - in order to normalize each piece of one light bulb is clearly not enough. It is especially difficult to organize a bathroom with your own hands in the Soviet buildings, since the square there is very modest and contains a lot of items.
4 m² bathroom should have at least 2 lamps, and ideally the lighting devices must be in each functional area. For example, to inflict cosmetics or hairstyle, it is necessary 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 backlight. If you approach the question thoroughly, the lamps should be installed so that the light is evenly distributed at the top, bottom and central part of the bath. Most of all the light should be in the middle - at 70 cm from the floor and to the level of person's face. But this parameter may vary depending on the average growth of residents, so it must be adjusted individually.
If the bathroom is very small, here, in fact, you can restrict ourselves to one good lamp. But it must be powerful enough and dispel the light evenly throughout the area. But if it comes to 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 the spacious area.
For simultaneous illumination of the ceiling and walls, it is better to choose luminescent or halogen lamps. In the process of installation, it is important to correctly send a stream of light - it must go strictly down to illuminate the floor surface, table and shelves. Sometimes the lamps can give too bright light and make eyes, then they can be rotated a little sob.
Lighting zones
We have already mentioned the functional zones several times, and now it's close to this topic. Even the smallest bathroom requires zoning. This means that the room should be visually delimited by several sectors: a bath or shower, sink and shelves adjacent to it with cosmetics and a mirror, a working area with soap, powders, washing machine, 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 areas with individual illumination.
It should be started, perhaps from the most important subject - bath. The products of the old sample are not distinguished by grace and technical perfection, but today you can find truly unusual baths with an inserted backlight. Such a plumbing looks very effectively and meets all safety standards. But it's not everyone can buy a luminous bath can afford, so we will look at how to highlight the usual bath.
Bath zoning options with light:
- Place the lamp right above the bathroom so that the direction of directional light goes from it, immersing the rest of the space in the twilight. Then in such a bath you can fully relax and give the eyes to rest.
- Suspend the head with a lampshade of colored glass, then the situation will acquire a calmer and romantic mood.
- If there is a low ceiling in the bathroom, but the square is quite large, multiply in one place on the ceiling several multicolored lamps. Then you can achieve the effect of color distinction of space - shades will gently replace each other by creating an unusual atmosphere.
- To beautifully highlight the water, use a floor flying with a height of about 2 m. Naturally, for the bathroom you can not use lighting devices applicable to living room or kitchen. They must comply with certain standards. The most important rule for all light bulbs in the bathroom is not to pass water. Water-repellent characteristics should also have lamps, stands and other parts.
- Place the lamps on each plumbing element - sink, crane, bath or shower. The main thing is that the lighting devices do not interfere with the functionality of the room. That is why many choose built-in or outdoor lighting. The latter is rather further to the decorative type, but it is impossible to deny that in the bathroom with light bulbs in the floor is much lighter than without them. Now in almost every store plumbing can find mixers with built-in backlight. It looks very beautifully "colored water" - the light bulb is directed to the filter and gives clinic water the desired shade.
The highlighting of the floor in the bathroom must be performed using special lamps that can withstand load, friction and direct contact with water. The design should be completely sealed and shockproof. The ideal option will be lamps intended for installation in garden sites (highlighting tracks, stairs, etc.). These are small products with a diameter of 5 cm, which are installed in the floor to a depth of 9 cm. Obviously, the installation of such a backlight for the bathroom requires a little lift the floor level. The power of the bulbs in such lamps usually does not exceed 5 W.
Bath backlight
Bath lamp options are so many that sometimes it is very difficult to make a choice - I want to install as many different lights, LEDs and ribbons as possible. But excess forms, colors and degrees of brightness can play against you. To make harmonious and functional lighting, equip the most important functional areas first, and then see whether to add light, or everything is fine.
It looks very beautifully LED backlight in the bathroom, which frames the bath or the floor around it. LEDs can be postponed a chaotic composition, imitating the starry sky. Just imagine how magically will rest, lying in warm water after a working day and admiring the flickering "constellations"!
LED lamps are ideal for the bathroom:
- To work, it is sufficiently low voltage, so they can be installed without fears in rooms with elevated levels of humidity.
- They are completely safe from an ecological point of view.
- You can reduce or increase the intensity of the glow of LED lamps.
- LEDs save a lot of electricity compared to the usual "Ilyich light bulbs" and even with energy-saving lamps. Electricity costs are reduced by 60-70%.
LEDs allow you to organize target lighting, sending light into the desired zone, for example, over a sink, in a mirror, in a shower or on the shelves. You can install a closet for a backlit bath, which is triggered when the door is opened, as in the refrigerator.
Light from the ceiling
The ceiling light in the bathroom can be performed using spotlights, long halogen lamps, LED tapes and other electrical appliances. For a small room on the ceiling there is enough single lamp, and the rest of the backlight can be dispersed on the walls, plumbing and sex.
In large rooms, the lamps in the ceiling must be located above the bathroom, washing machine and sink. It is absolutely optionally to use powerful lamps, moreover, it is better to limit ourselves to not very bright lamps and to solve the issue is not a quality, but by quantity. Low-power LEDs, for example, can be installed almost everywhere, including in the ceiling, and electricity on them will go as little.
By organizing backlight in the bathroom, it is recommended to pay attention to products with conductive elements and tires, as they are able to significantly expand the range of possibilities. Halogen luminaires are open and embedded. The latter are installed in a suspended ceiling from waterproof drywall or plywood. Also on the market you can find halogen lamps that are crashed directly into concrete overlap.
As a rule, such devices give a directed light stream, which goes strictly to the floor. This solution is not always convenient, so you should put additional point lamps to get the scattered light.
Halogen luminaires are completely different, and they can be attached to any surface. With their help, you can make a bright backlight in the wall in the bathroom, in the closet or under the sink. You can create original combinations with mobile light sources that can be deployed at any time to the desired side or to remove.
Lamps for mirrors
Experts recommend setting the backlight not above the mirror, but according to its parties, so that the face is uniformly illuminated. If the light goes from above or only on the one hand, the shadow will fall on a disreamed part of the face, which greatly interferes when applying makeup or during skin care procedures. You can hang the sconium, put point lamps, but the most unusual and original effect is achieved thanks to the LED ribbons. It is only necessary to attach them around the perimeter of the mirror so that the light extends evenly.
Rules for the organization of lighting for the mirror:
- Choose enough bright lamps, but so that they do not blind. The best option will be bright scattered light from matte lamps. Also a good "diffuser" is a lampshade of white plastic or glass.
- Do not install non-ferrous lamps or lamps so as not to distort the reflection.
- Place the lamps on both sides of the mirror symmetrically so as not to get black and white transitions.
- If your bathroom has a wide mirror, then to light it completely, two bulbs on the sides will be not enough. In this case, placing light sources at a height of about 2 m from the floor with an equal installation step.
- For mirrors of medium sizes, the framework of the LED ribbon around the perimeter is best.
- 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 set the light in the working area, perhaps it is better to purchase a mirror with backlighting in the bathroom.
Illuminated in the bathroom photo
There are so many illumination options for the bathroom that it is very difficult to choose. We have prepared a small photo generation of the most practical and original ideas. We hope you will handle inspiration after viewing and create your own unique interior.
