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Bathrooms are where we start and end our days and we want them to be warm and inviting. Stepping into a cold, dark room just gets your day off badly. There are simple things you can do today or this weekend to update your bathroom and make it a much more enjoyable place. 

Heat is a must in a bathroom. Stepping out of the shower onto a cold floor in a cold room is not only unpleasant, but it’s a good way to catch a draught. Adding a new bathroom radiator is a wonderful way to warm your space efficiently and gently. Today’s bathroom radiators are slim, sleek and stylish, not like your grandmother’s radiators at all. You can even purchase designer radiators that look like pieces of art hanging on your wall. No one will know they serve a dual purpose. Or choose a radiator that is also a towel rail for the ultimate in comfort when you step from the shower or tub, lovely warm towels.

Other updates, like improved lighting or an illuminated mirror, will brighten the space immediately. If you can’t see your teeth to brush them, consider new light fixtures. Installing fluorescent bulbs will also save you money over the incandescent variety. Mirrors will reflect that brighter light, illuminating even the darkest corners and making your bathroom much more enjoyable.

New towels, a rug or even a new tap can also make a difference, especially if those bathroom accessories are currently substandard. Make a few changes this weekend and you’ll be amazed at how much better you feel on Monday morning.

For some reason, interior lighting in bathrooms is frequently overlooked. When redesigning your bathroom, it is crucial to consider what kind of artificial light will best suit your overall vision.

A good bathroom lighting plan should take into account exactly where you need the most light. For example, a stronger light source is needed for shaving, putting on makeup, and showering. Indirect light is used to create an atmosphere, to enhance the general mood of the bathroom.

Vanity lighting is best to illuminate daily bathroom activities. Avoid recessed ceiling fixtures over the mirror. These cast shadows on the face and make shaving difficult. Instead, place the fixtures on either side of the mirror. A good rule of thumb is to place the fixture at eye level and separated by around half a metre.

If the shower has a transparent door, a direct fixture may not be necessary. Choose a recessed light with a glass bulb. Similar fixtures are also sufficient over the bath and lavatory.

Ambient light is most often supplied by a centrally-mounted ceiling light. Why not choose a pendant lamp or even a chandelier instead? Another idea are rope lights disguised by a moulding dropped several centimetres below ceiling height. This supplies a lovely soft glow around the perimeter of the room.

Dimmer switches allow for an easy, cost-effective way to light the bathroom. Just be careful to ensure that the appropriate bulb is compatible with the dimmer. A halogen light source will need a compatible dimmer.

The Imperial Bathrooms’ lighting collection recognizes the important role light and lighting fixtures play in designing the perfect bathroom. Inescapable and yet all too often pedestrian, bathroom lighting sets the mood of your lavatory as few things can.

Imperial’s bathroom lighting offers consumers a range of options from the simple to the dramatic. This range of choice ensures homeowners can find the perfect bathroom lighting to accentuate any bathroom design.

The Tloedo Double Wall Light has two horizontally suspended, oblong globes that give off a soft white light. The single version splits the globes apart and situates them vertically, pointing up to the ceiling. Both Toledo fixtures are brassy in colour and complement the globe frosting nicely.

The Cadiz wall light uses a round globe set atop a clean chrome shaft. The shaft is attached to the wall via an elegant swooping arm and a wide, round pedestal. Imperial’s Avila light is reminiscent of Victorian candle lighting with its simple, shafted bulb and curved wall arm. The heavy, masculine Brokton wall light has clean lines and a round black shade which renders the light emitting from it as a cool yellow.

The decadent and timeless Segovia Lamp uses a tulip-shaped glass bowl set atop a straight wall arm. Scintillating through the glass shade, the resulting light is clean, bright, and white.

The Imperial Bathrooms’ lighting collection also has three light pull options: elegant handles of white porcelain, black ceramic, and silver chrome tipped with chrome on the bottom and top.

Bathroom lighting comes in a range of shapes, intensities, and colours. Manufacturers such as Catalano offer very simple forms – one round, one rectangular – as accoutrements for their rectangular mirrors. India and HIB, on the other hand, offer a staggering array of bathroom lighting solutions, one of which is certain to fit any bathroom design.

India offers no fewer than twenty three styles of bathroom lighting. They manufacture one circular light with a shade, but far more diverse is their line of wall lights. The India LIGHT comes in two rectangular, vertically-situated forms and in a tubular, horizontally-situated form. Less progressive and more timelessly elegant are their other various, rounded and bell-shaped wall lights. These come in chrome, glass, and acrylic bells. Similarly shaped is their line of mirror edge-fitting lights.

HIB bathroom lights are much more diverse and much more progressive. The Arezzo is a modern take on the medieval torch while the Epsilon looks like a water spigot: making it an appropriate addition to any bathroom. Their recessed Fire Rated and Glass shower lights are white, chrome, and glass while their chrome spotlights add an elegant, flexible edge to any bathroom. Certainly among the most progressive bathroom lights available, HIB’s LED Brick Light evokes Deco glass brick; and their convex, frosted glass light creates an elegant strip atop any bathroom mirror.

Also elegant and creative are HIB’s various other lines of bathroom lighting: the Duplex, Frascati, Hawaii, Illinois, Latina, Miami, Razorlight, Shavolite, Uniplex, and Vancouver to name just a few.