Although it does not seem so, we spend a lot of time in a bathroom. And it is even more true for standing in front of a mirror, therefore, choosing quality bathroom mirror lighting should not be taken lightly.
Intense, but softly diffused light
As you might have already read in our article How to choose the right bathroom light, when shopping mirror lighting, safety is the most important factor. What that means is that you should always look at the packaging of the luminaire and check its IP protection rating, so that you know, in which zones of your bathroom you can mount the luminaire. As for IP rating, mainly the second digit is crucial for you, which represents protection against ingress of water. Remember, the higher the number, the better the protection.
You can light up your mirror in several ways. You can either purchase a mirror equipped with lighting or you can choose from the wide range of mirror lights. For example, lamps but very popular are also wall fluorescent lights as they can be placed above a mirror as well as next to a mirror. Lighting should be very intense (so that you don’t cut yourself when shaving), but also softly diffused, so that lighting does not dazzle and so that it does not create unwanted shades on a face. If you would like to have a very trendy bathroom, you can adorn the space around a mirror even more with LED strips, which also enable you to change the color of the light.
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