Application of home lighting design guide to bathroom lighting

According to what (What to light) & how to shine (How to lightIt)

Today, most families have two or more bathrooms, including master bathroom, children's bathroom, guest toilet. The master bathroom may be greater, even including the fitness area, children toilet is more simple and more functional, guest bathroom with decorative lighting, which should give priority to the performance and decorative mirror.

Bathroom lighting is mainly composed of bathing area and dressing area. The bath area includes the bathtub and shower space, toilet space, to shed light on. Because of the need for grooming, makeup, shaving and dressing, the area around the lens should be adequate and evenly distributed on the face, hair and neck, and avoid the shadow. If the lamp is installed in the center of the ceiling to provide illumination, it is easy to cause the shadow of the face when people look at the mirror. Similarly, if you use a small embedded downlight mirror, although the solution of "minimalist", but usually in the brow and chin strong shadow is not satisfactory.

The key is: the mirror lighting lamps and lanterns decorate can fully highlight this area, and the mirror is not dazzling, the illumination and the light angle based on the consideration of lamps on both sides, it is best to install on the mirror or the top, in order to provide adequate and uniform lighting environment.

The best plan is to use a pair of slender lighting fixtures, the length of 600 - 900mm is more suitable for the layout of the mirror side, separated by a certain distance (600mm). Recommended illuminance: 150-300-600lx. Our standard recommends that the bathroom 0.75m high level average illuminance of 100lx, on the front of the mirror without illumination

Other active lighting

Light environment is designed according to the user's daily habits, the bathroom is no exception. In addition to the mirror lighting, lighting and other requirements should also be considered, such as bath, bath and some people love reading; such as closed toilet; and fitness area, usually by embedding or surface mounted fluorescent lamps to illuminate the space of furniture and equipment.

Night lighting

Some people need to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, from the point of view of safety and comfort, low levels of "night lighting" should be used as an option to switch, dimming control.

Lighting control

Two basic types of lighting control should be considered:

1, when no one is in the toilet, the occupied sensor should automatically turn off the lights;

2, dimming, in order to meet the user's personalized needs.

The slender luminaire has the best effect on the side of the mirror, it should have at least 60mm. The lighting on the mirror should be at least 600mm long, to ensure that both sides of the human face can be lit at the same time, to avoid the shadow under the chin. According to the advantage of embedded downlight is not noticeable, but will produce a shadow under the eyebrows, nose and chin; unless they are closer to the mirror spacing layout, fully open, and the table is light, the light can be reflected upward to eliminate the shadow.

Finally, there is a very important point, the bathroom should be used with waterproof function and produce less heat or better heat dissipation lamps.