LED spots in the bathroom - where and how many?

Too much light in the bathroom reveals all signs of aging. Merciless....not good, says the woman. Karsten

hehe. There should be good light at the mirror, yes, otherwise you can't see anything. But otherwise please subtle, you want to feel comfortable there and not stand in a workshop.

Hello Anna MM

We discussed this topic at length two years ago
perhaps some of our considerations can also help you

Light intensity and well-being = function
1) The trip-free path to the toilet at night:
Motion detector switches on twilight light/warm tone under the washbasin cabinet
when a woman goes to the toilet at night, she certainly doesn't want to be woken up by bright sunlight, the light turns on without a switch..

2) should it really be the classic ceiling spots that come from the old era of incandescent bulbs??

We decided on staged lighting and used the reflection of the walls
- Use the light from the mirror cabinet as a contribution, the Swiss illuminate the entire bathroom with a single mirror cabinet. The trick: the light from the light sources is fully released into the room and not simply shaded away as usual.
Furthermore, the light color switches from the feel-good normal tone to daylight when the lady of the house wants to put on makeup.
Pay attention to glare-free lighting: who wants to look into a “spotlight” while shaving in the morning, that spoils the mood right at the start of the day. Unfortunately, there is a lot of junk on the market here.

- Instead of ceiling spots, have you thought about wall lights? Light not only as a floodlight but also as an optical design element in on and off state.

- On the topic of spotlights: a niche above the flush tank/wall projection can be illuminated from above: the ideal place for a flower or another decorative item. That brings splashes of color and atmosphere.

- oh yes: when the bathroom is to be cleaned, it should also be properly bright.
then the good old fluorescent lamps help, which can also be purchased dimmable (if desired and luxury even controllable with an electronic ballast over 0-1 V). Because as the predecessors said: one doesn’t always want bright white and daylight colors.
In the bathtub rather warm tone, when cleaning rather daylight colors

3) Note on illumination levels
- for workplace: 400 lux
- for lacquer/ surface work = weekly cleaning: 1000 lux
Depending on the distance to the light source, the illumination results
Examples:
Wall light
540 lumens at 7W LED, we installed 2x2 pieces of these.
Key figure: 70.. 100 lumen/watt for the bare LED
The cover usually absorbs 50 to 80%.

Ceiling light, round, dimmable, daylight (truewhite)
3-4x36 W compact fluorescent lamp, 2900 lumens each fixture
at a room height of 2.7m, about 1000 lux then reaches the floor.

Caution with the specifications: only the light that the fixture emits into the room is usable, manufacturers often exaggerate here.

Hope this helps
oh yes..
very few electricians are familiar with lighting design.
Go to a "lamp store" and ask about color temperature, from the answer you can immediately tell if you will be well advised there..

Have fun in the new feel-good bathroom, with lots of light and few shadows.

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Best regards in brief

Thank you very much for your tips! Above the sink/[mirror] we will have an extra lamp, which will of course have its own switch, so that you can turn it on at night if you don’t want the full "illumination."

Otherwise, I think we will leave out the spot above the tub, move the 2 left spots a little closer to the bathtub, and then place another spot in the center. The arrangement will then basically be like the 5 on a die.

We had a similar approach as with firecrackers. Using the tangent, you can calculate the radius of the illuminated area from the ceiling height and half of the radiation angle of the LED lights. Then you can draw the whole thing into the floor plan with a compass. In this way, we arrived at about 8 spots on a similar area.