Enhance Bathroom Ceiling Lights with Style

Bathroom ceiling lights are often neglected when contemplating bathroom makeovers. Bathrooms are the first room people visit in the morning and their last stop at night before bed. People clean their bodies, perform intimate personal functions, and often elect to take long, slow tub soaks. Some bathrooms act as spas, with massaging showerheads, whirlpool tubs, and other enhancements. People spend hours before makeup mirrors changing their personal appearance, experimenting with new looks, or transforming their faces for critical social events. All these tasks require adequate lighting to achieve the best results, but most people choose a laissez-faire approach, accepting whatever lighting was originally installed.

Old lighting fixtures are often less energy efficient, have poor appearances, and lack the capabilities of modern bathroom lighting. Lighting around the sink area is especially crucial to address personal hygiene and grooming regimens. People can choose from a vast array of lighting choices including indirect, fluorescent, incandescent, or light emitting diode (LED) light choices. Fixtures and bulb covers provide brilliant ambient lighting that provides functional utility and great style. Additional lighting may be needed in the shower area to illuminate the area properly. Dimmer switches allow homeowners to change the atmosphere from relaxing to serious business at the flick of a switch.

Energy Star certified bathroom ceiling lights provide greater energy efficiency, as do fluorescent lights. Some people do not like the look of fluorescent lighting, but LED lights provide a warm, white light that can be trained on decorator focal points or used for increased candlepower wherever needed. These lights are the wave of the future because they use only one-fourth the energy of incandescent lights and last 40 times longer. These qualities make them the perfect choice for hard to reach areas where changing bulbs would be a nuisance. Bathroom decorators can find a multitude of styles including ceiling lights, chandeliers, and pendant lighting. Multiple finishes allow coordination with other bathroom accessories such as sink faucets, towel bars, hardware, and countertop accessories.

Bathroom lighting choice enhances the overall decor or theme of the bathroom, and decorator should consider lighting installation at least as carefully as fixtures. Small bathrooms may limit choices because ornate lights might appear too busy, but sleek, streamlined oyster lights can still match other bathroom hardware and create a sense of style. Larger rooms offer homeowners many choices such as monorail lights, recessed lighting, ornate chandeliers or pendants, and energy-efficient ceiling fixtures. The styles can accentuate any decor from rustic to contemporary. Decorators should always consider light efficiency in making their choices. If the fixture will not take bulbs of sufficient wattage to properly illuminate the intended area, then the homeowner will be wasting his or her money. The most beautiful light that fails to brighten a room sufficiently is a waste of resources.

Bathroom ceiling lights can be recessed for a minimalist approach to lighting, and these lights can be precisely focused on specific areas.  Overhead lights  generally provide overall general candlepower for most bathroom activities such as showering, bathing, reading, grooming, shaving, and flossing. Cleaning the bathroom requires bright lighting, and overhead fixtures provide the proper wattage, which can be dimmed for other functions. Indirect lights, wall sconces, LED wall lights that diffuse light in both directions, and other options make designing the lighting system for bathrooms fun and personal.