Why Is There a Latest Trend of Installing LED Bathroom Lighting?

Rune Larsen
2 min readFeb 12, 2018

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The average human being uses approximately 2 years in the bathroom throughout a lifetime. Men use 2 months of that time shaving, while women spend about 300 days on their make-up. LED bathroom lighting is not only an efficient choice for these kinds of tasks; it can also save you a significant amount of money over time.

When you do your make-up, shave, fix your hair and are in the shower it is important that you can see what you are doing. And yes, traditional sources of light can actually help you with that. But LED bathroom lighting can give you a general illumination with a quality so high that is simply unmatchable by any other source of light. The LED technology is furthermore the source of light that is most likely to impress your guests, as there are a great number of decorative new LED products. LED strips can e.g. be mounted behind the mirror or under the cabinet, which creates an exclusive look in any bathroom.

Another reason to choose LED bathroom lighting is the fact that the environment in a bathroom is rough on lighting fixtures. The moisture from a hot bath can easily penetrate the fixture and tear on vital internal components, which will shorten the lifespan. Most LEDs today are developed to withstand this kind of environment. Though we still suggest that you keep an eye our for the IP rating of an LED fixture, and more specifically the last number in the IP rating. Most LED bathroom fixtures have an IP rating above 65, which means that the fixture can withstand water and moisture from any given angle.

LED bathroom lighting is the ‘green’ solution. Compared to other sources of light typically used in the bathroom, like e.g. halogen spots, LED lighting is incredibly energy efficient. If you replace a halogen spot with an LED spot you will get energy savings of no less than 50 % in return — and that is noticeable on the electricity bill.

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Rune Larsen

Founder of Normasym Rune Larsen has for the last ten years worked intensively with the technology of LEDs. https://normasym.com