Lighting for Your Vanity
As with any other room in the house, your choice of lighting in the bathroom, particularly your vanity, can make a lot of difference with the way it looks and feels. Today, there are so many designs, materials, and types of lights that it can be downright confusing deciding which of them to install.
You can start with ambient lighting. These lights are often installed overhead, though not necessarily on the ceiling. When they are, and if your bathroom is huge, they can come as chandeliers or pendants. Smaller bathrooms, on the other hand, can use sconces mounted high on the walls. Still another choice is overhead lights installed in recessed ceilings. Surface-mounted lights covered with beautiful and perhaps colored glass casings can also look attractive in the bathroom.
Ambient lights are used to illuminate the entire bathroom. They can be used to highlight the vanity and improve the aura around it. You can direct their focus around the vanity without neglecting the rest of the bathroom. The sconces, for instance, can flank the vanity mirror. Another option could be the use of strip lights with at least two up to four sockets for light bulbs mounted just above the vanity mirror. This has the advantage of illuminating the entire bathroom, and at the same time providing sufficient light for your grooming in front of the mirror.
If you opt for the ceiling lights, you will need task lights for your vanity mirror. As with the ceiling lights, there are plenty of options you can choose from whether in terms of the design and mounting of the lights. These are usually mounted just above the mirror but if there are shelves around it, they can also be installed either on the sides or bottom of the shelves. In this case, they can be concealed in recessed areas. The important thing about task lights is that they should be able to provide supplementary illumination to areas not sufficiently provided for by ambient lighting.
You can also add a night light in your vanity area for use when you need to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. You may not want to turn on the bright lights that could fully rouse you and prevent you from going back to sleep. These lights emit just enough illumination to prevent you from running into the shower door or toilet bowl. There are hundreds of beautiful and artistic night lights available in the market for your vanity.