Incandescent Fixtures
Incandescent wall fixtures for the vanity area are available today in an extraordinary range of styles. The older incandescent vanity strips that used exposed globe light bulbs remain available, but are not generally the best solution for purposes of an appropriate design solution. Interestingly, these vanity strips do provide an excellent quality of light and that is why they are often used in dressing rooms in theaters and movie sets.
Whatever the style, it is extremely important to find fixtures where the light bulbs are shielded by a shade and therefore not visible. However, it is also important to find fixtures with shades that have enough diffused quality so that the light effectively exits from the fixture without creating glare.
Fluorescent fixtures
Fluorescent vanity fixtures also are available for placement either on the sides or the top of the mirror. Although not as many design options are available using fluorescent bulbs, there are more options than you might expect. One of the benefits of using fluorescent fixtures is that fluorescent lighting today is extremely efficient and therefore provides excellent light with very little heat exposure.
Fluorescent bulbs in today’s market are available in a range of options that are classified by their “color temperature” and their “color rendering” ability. Older bulbs were called by terms such as “cool white” and “warm white” but these terms are not used today. The color temperature scale defines the relative visual “warmth” or “ visual “coolness” of a fluorescent lamp. The higher the number, the more cool that the bulb appears, and the lower the color temperature, the warmer that the bulb appears.
In the bathroom, it is most appropriate to use bulbs with a color temperature in the range of 3000-3500K. The Kelvin scale is used to define the color of the bulb and how it renders neutral surfaces. Bulbs within the 3000-3500K scale are close in color temperature to incandescent bulbs and will appear very comfortable in the bathroom.
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