Any room in your home should fully meet the requirements of comfort and security. It is necessary that the person in his house felt normally could fully rest and study everyday affairs.
In the design of home premises, the highlight is covered, which will allow the room to fully respond to the not requirements and create proper conditions for recreation and work. Many people do not think that high-quality lighting should be all over the house, including even the backlight of such rooms as a pantry, bathroom and toilet.

It is about what the lighting in the toilet should be and will be a conversation in this article. After reading the information that will be set out below, you can make high-quality lighting in this room with your own hands.

Room features

Spacious bathroom

To create full-fledged lighting for the toilet, you need to think over all the nuances and features of this room. In apartment buildings, the toilet with the bathroom occupies very few space. Therefore, here to create the desired interior and its backlight has a lot of obstacles and reservations. Especially often there is a situation of bathroom combination with toilets. This will allow a little visually expanding the space by making it more comfortable and more convenient.
At the same time, there are already modern apartments and private houses with a spacious toilet with a bathroom. Here you can use various approaches and lighting devices to create an optimal level of lighting.

So, the most important aspect that should be assessed in this issue - the size of the premises. And then it is necessary to relate to the interior of the toilet (one or combined with the bathroom) with the types of lamps and the options for their installation.
Note! The correct illumination of the room will allow you to achieve a visual expansion of space and many other points that will significantly improve the visual perception of the toilet with the bathroom.
Also should evaluate the ceilings indoors and their height. The worst variant in this situation are small dimensions and low ceilings.
Toilet with bathroom, along with the kitchen, are those rooms that exhibit specific requirements for lighting instruments. They must be considered when planning the lighting system. Luminaires for such premises must comply with such requirements:

Waterproof lamp

• high degree of protection against humidity. Here it is necessary to buy only lamps that have an indicator of ІР 65/66. This suggests that the device is able to withstand direct water ingress;
• stability of lamps to sharp temperature drops. This parameter should be considered when the toilet combined with the bathroom;
• high tightness instruments. Thanks to hermetic, the lamps will be resistant to the effects of dirt and moisture. Penetrating inside the lamp, water and dirt can harm the electronic components of the lamps, which will directly affect the duration of the lighting device;
• connecting the lamps with their own hands should be carried out with extreme caution, warning the contact of the wires with water.

Taking into account the requirements of the room (when combined with or without this), you can make optimal lighting in your toilet with your own hands.

Backlight levels

Before you begin the choice of lamps for the toilet, you need to decide on the levels of the backlight. In this room, you can arrange several levels:

Ceiling backlight

• ceiling lighting (top). Ceiling lamps for these purposes can be used different, the main thing is that they meet the requirements of the room. This is, so to speak, the original standard, which is often found in a small toilet. But when choosing a type of lamp, it is necessary to take into account the fact at what level the ceilings are located;

Note! The placement of lamps on the ceiling will allow you to avoid reducing space from the walls. This is the perfect solution for a small toilet.

At the same time it is necessary to know that any level of suspension can be organized with their own hands. But remember that the ceilings and walls are better places to place the lamps than the floor.

Selection of lamps

Spotlights

The basis of good lighting in the toilet is correctly selected lamps. Their type and appearance depends on the chosen backlight level:

• ceiling type. Here you should use small-sized ceiling chandeliers or point luminaires. If in the first case for a small toilet, there is enough one chandelier installed in the center, then in the second case - several devices placed all over the ceiling;

Note! To install point lights, ceilings must be suspended.

• wall type. Here you can use wall scaves. This is an excellent option for a small toilet with low ceilings. But here you should choose flat models that will not be strongly issued from the walls of the walls. Otherwise, such a sconium will interfere with free displacement on the room;

Wall bra

The number of lighting devices should be selected based on the size of the toilet and the rules that are written in special regulatory documentation (SNiP).
Since the toilet is not the place where people spend most of the time, then pay close attention to the appearance of the lamps here there is no fundamental need. The main thing is functionality, and only then appearance. Simple lighting devices are suitable for this room, which, however, must still fit into the existing interior. This condition is more applicable to a small toilet, but for a combined room, you can use beautiful ornamental lamps of any type of backlight.

Installing lamps

Connecting fixtures in the toilet and bathroom - an important stage, on which the duration of the work of products depends. If you decide to make a lamp connection with your own hands, then you need to be extremely attentive to not get an electrician. Here the main role is played by the installation of wiring. The luminaire itself is set according to the standard scheme, which is provided in the instructions for the device.
Installation of wiring occurs as follows:

• initially, we draw a scheme for the placement of lamps;

Placement scheme

Note! In the bathroom and toilet wire from the floor level should be at a distance of at least 1.5 m.

• remember that all places of connecting wires with each other and with the box must have good insulation. Insulation can be made using a special insulating PVC tape. At the same time, before connecting the ends of the wires, it is necessary to shock with a knife or nipples for 1-2 cm;
• wires in prepared strokes fix using a dowel-clamp;
• this procedure must be repeated for wires under the remaining lighting devices;
• melting the ships moisture-resistant putty.

Ready lamp

So that everything happens should accurately comply with the safety technique when working with electricity, as well as adhere to the rules of installation of wiring.
As you can see, create high-quality lighting for the toilet is not so very difficult. Knowing the features of this room and the requirements for lamps, your toilet will be lit as it should.

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What should be the light in the toilet in the 21st century

It was previously assumed that the light in the toilet is sufficient to be implemented with one small light bulb, including the appearance of the corresponding switch. But on the courtyard for 2016 and personally, I decided to keep up with the times using modern technological advances. The fact that I did it and will tell you further.

Selection and installation of light source

A sad lamp tightly sticking under the ceiling, consisting of one incandescent bulb, probably, in every toilet of multi-storey houses, and some remained today. At least I had exactly how I took up reforms.

This option was considered optimal for the bathroom, which is absolutely not true that I will prove you now:

Debunk myths

1. Myth first - savings. The fact is that visits to the toilet and so are not very frequent and short-term, so it practically does not affect the budget of your family;

1. Myth Second - no need for more bright light. Like: "What is it necessary to consider this?" But in fact, finding in a close space, shrouded in twilight, very negatively affects the mental state of man, Up to the danger of the occurrence of claustrophobia.

And if an adult is completely able to endure such conditions, although without much comfort, if there is children in the apartment, it is better not to risk their health and mental condition.

Benefits of LED Point Lights

So what, looking around for the above, should there be a lamp in the toilet? I will not tomat a long time, I gave my preference to LED point models for the following reasons:

1. Economic power consumption. Even understanding that the light in the bathroom is rarely included, still want to make it economically, such is human nature, and the lighting devices under consideration quite successfully cope with such a task;
2. Quite bright, but not cutting emitted light. Four, installed in the corners, the lamp immersed as a result of my toilet into a soft and comprehensive glow, excluding any depressive moods;

1. Simple hidden installation,easily performed with your own hands. Before, a few earlier, I sewed a ceiling with plastic panels, so everything that remains to be done is essentially so cutting into them the seats under the jet of devices and lengthen the wiring from the location of the old light bulb. I will describe this process slightly below;
2. High level of protection against increased humidity. Of course, it is not so damp in the toilet as in the bathroom, but still the extra precautions will not hurt, well, and the owners of joint bathrooms need to be as cautious in this matter.

Current offers

Before installing the LED lamp, it must be bought. I will give the characteristics of some models along with their cost so that you can navigate for yourself:

• Model "011278 Piano IP Mini":

• Model "A601 W ambrella":

• Model "006410 MEDUSA CR":

As you can see, the price is mostly fluctuated depending on the shape of the lamp. But here it is advisable to do after all emphasis primarily on the moisture resistance of the device, not on his originality.

Installation of a point lamp

Above, I have already noted the simplicity of mounting point lighting, now I will describe how it did:

1. Inserting the crown of the appropriate diameter into the battery screwdriver, I drilled a hole in the plastic ceiling in designated place in advance;

1. Through the hole done pulled the necessary wire, pre-de-energized the electrical network;

If you can not get the cable with your hand, then use it with a piece of wire bent into the wire hook. Such an adaptation is easy to pass into the standard mortise hole.

1. Further wired wires to the highlight itself;

1. Then trained lamp in the prepared landing place and fixed it with special springs;

1. Finishing action put on decorative protection;
2. Turned on the power to check The workability of the lighting device, after which it turned off again and moved to the next point.

If you have a bathroom spacious enough to keep the mirror in it, the installation of LEDs in its frame will be a very interesting option. It looks like such a move is simply amazing, but in my apartment a toilet standard small sizes, so I could not implement it.

Automation of light on

So, as a result, after the described described, I received a modern economical abundant, but not the cutting eye, lighting. If you have a planning of an apartment or a private house also includes a small toilet, then I think, and you quite have four point light sources, although their quantity can be increased or reduced depending on the situation.

But this is not all that should have a bathroom of today. Automatic backlight - that's what I decided to implement the next step. What for? Now I will explain everything:

Advantages of automatic lighting

• Tangible electricity savings. Yes yes, yes, at the very beginning I wrote that staying in the toilet is not so long that the light bulb will have a lot of "winding", but this is if you have turned on the light, we managed with all the affairs, went out and turned off his.
  And if, suddenly, I forgot to turn off, what does it often happen from the ever-hurrying children? Then the lighting device may not need to burn for a very long time, "burning" your money. Automation completely eliminates this problem;
• Ease of operation. Nothing needs to be pressed, you don't need to reach anywhere, just just enter. Not only is it just convenient, in particular, again, for the smallest family members, it is also eliminated by the possibility of accidentally turning off the light outside, for sure, many more unpleasant bonds occurred at the most unfortunate moment.

Select a sensor

Automatic light on the toilet can be made by connecting one of the three types of sensors:

1. Sound. Activated by sound, which, as a rule, is exhibited within 40-50 dB, which corresponds to cotton in your hands. There are two regulators on the housing, one of which is responsible for the level of noise-closing contacts, and the second - for the duration of the instrument's inclusion period.
   Sold in a variety of variations, which will allow you to easily choose the most suitable model for your toilet. Their price starts from 350 rubles.

Plus: Ability to switch to shutdown, that is, the second cotton will bring darkness. The sensors operating according to other principles must necessarily maintain the circuit circuit cycle.

Minus: a short zone of action that requires is in close proximity to the device. And if you apply a supersensitive model, then fake inclusions from extraneous noise;

1. Ultrasonic. It has very small sizes, thanks to which it is easy to disappear, and high response speed. The principle of operation lies in the spread of ultrasound waves with a length of 20-60 kHz, whose intersection due to the Doppler effect causes a circuit of the chain. The cost of such a device also starts from about 350 rubles.

1. Infrared. The presence sensor has a lenses system that focuses infrared radiation, directing it to a special highly sensitive sensor. When the radiation strength reaches a certain intensity, as it comes due to the appearance of a person in the controlled zone, the circuit is triggered, which lasts for a while. The cost of such devices is already somewhat higher, as it starts from 600 rubles.

The minus one should include frequent false responses that may occur due to different temperature drops formed, for example, as a result of incorporating hot water or air conditioning.

I chose a motion sensor for my toiletworking at the expense of ultrasound waves. By the way, you can even immediately buy a LED lamp with a built-in such system, although it will cost much more expensive. For example, the model "IEK 3237D", shown below, will cost you in the range of 1,700 rubles:

The process of connecting after I was fitted with the lighting devices themselves, was not difficult. For you, I also led the auxiliary schemes. If in a nutshell, then just you need to turn on the purchased device into a chain between the power supply and lamps..

By the way, it can be done even so that the music also played in the toilet when the light is turned on, but this is absolutely an amateur, since many prefer to "reflect" in silence.

Conclusion

You can use the toilet lighting system in two stages. On the first one should replace the old light source with lamps, which is better than the requesting requests of today's consumer, as which I chose point LED models. On the second - automate their work by connecting a special sensor, with this task I perfectly coped with the ultrasound action device. As a result, the whole family is glad to a bright and smart bathroom.

Hidden backlight is capable of making space more air, and the atmosphere is pleasant. Thanks to it, you can create a special mood in the interior, to make it spectacular and attractive. How to achieve all this, and how to apply hidden backlight in your home? We found a lot of interesting examples!

When there is a second level in an apartment or house, then there must be a staircase. To equip it with backlight - a practical reception that is useful in the dark time. In addition, it will make the staircase span more original and interesting design.

Stylish bathroom and toilet solutions

Where is the most appropriate to use hidden lighting? In small spaces, where natural light does not fall, for example, in bathrooms and toilets. These rooms do not differ in large quadrature, they constantly lack the place in them, but you can change the situation at least in the visual plan. To do this, the ceiling, floor, plumbing or mirrors are perfectly suitable. First of all, the space will look easily and air, secondly, the visual interior will become more and more spacious.

In the bedroom, the hidden illumination is used not so often, but in vain, because it can create a harmonious and cozy atmosphere in space. If you install it under the bed, it will seem that this piece of furniture is ferry in the air. Also well, hidden illumination looks in the head of the bed, and it can become a stylish emphasis in the dark time.

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Where else do you need hidden backlight? In the cabinets, small niches and dressing rooms. Here without her sometimes just can not do. She helps to find the right things, and also makes small spaces lighter. It is easy to install on the ceiling, on the shelf or in the depths of the locker.

Where most often use the hidden backlight, so it is in small kitchens. And this technique is fully justified, so it is convenient to cover the workspace, as well as the place at the slab and the sink. Sometimes the backlight is made on the lower wall of the suspended lockers, so that the space becomes visual ease.

I want the living room to always reign a harmonious and cozy atmosphere. It is not difficult to achieve using hidden illumination, it will come to help when it is necessary to make an intimate and relaxing situation. In addition, when scattered light, it's nice to just rest or watch your favorite movie.

Hidden backlight is so universal tool that it can be used not only in each of the rooms, but also in the exterior. It will look great on the balcony or in a private courtyard, will allow you to light the house in the dark time of the day and will make a special situation in the yard.

We have also made up of attention!

The bathroom is a special place in each apartment and every home. Here, as it is not paradoxically, a person spends quite a long time. In these walls, we give our body and thoughts in order, so the situation must be appropriate. Incorrect lighting, illiterate work on the light-formation of the bathroom may entail discontent with this room as a whole. The lack of windows at least in typical premises makes it very carefully to come to business. So, let's talk about how to make the right light in the toilet.
General Directions Lighting in the toilet
Lighting in the bathroom has several important functions.

1. accordingly, the light itself,
2. registration of the entire space. The light sets the situation and style. Therefore, for the design of the ceiling, walls, gender and even plumbing apply various types of backlight. There is an option to focus on some one detail of the interior, or emphasize all the surrounding items in the aggregate. Currently, a toilet design is very common with LED lighting. The effect of lightness and airiness will visually expand the space and create a pleasant, not a direct glow. Despite the fact that a felt room size depends on the brightness of the lighting, there is a danger to overdo it. In this case, due to the blind light, it will be completely impossible in the toilet.

Requirements for lamps

Several other requirements are presented to lamps located in the bathroom, rather than in the fact that they are located in the rest of the premises. Here are just a few properties of lamps in the toilet:

• Resistance to humidity
• Resistance to rust, and other types of corrosion
• Resistance to temperature drops

Types of lighting in the toilet

Lighting in the toilet is divided into two types:

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Standard option when one or more lamps hang on the ceiling. But for those who are ready to keep up with the times and knows about the latest lighting technologies, a lot of variants of LED backlight has been developed. With the help of them, you will be able to increase the height of the ceiling and expand the room itself.
Outdoor lighting has always been considered something original and unusual for the Russian man in the street. Although there is no longer an unknown for modern masters. Such illumination is practiced in different rooms, and is a lighting of the room with the highlights of the lamps built into the floor. The lamps may be decorated to be the perimeter of the toilet, or even posted a kind of pattern. Although such lighting is very effectively, but not functionally, and requires additional lighting.

LED lighting - perfect option for any bathroom

For the design of the toilet, use various LED sources.

• Point lamps (swivel and non-reflective). In addition to the ceiling, they can be installed in furniture niches
• Ceiling lamps (overhead and embedded)
• LED linear luminaires.
• LED bulbs
• LED ribbons

When placing the toilet, LED lamps are the best option, as they will fill the entire room with light, zoning it if it is necessary, while the single lamp will illuminate the middle of the room, and the corners will be darkened. In addition to the ceiling, they can be placed on the walls of the toilet. For mood and the desired color, you can use LEDs that breathe life into the room, and will be illuminated in the desired tonality not only furniture, but also to plumbing.
An important point is not to have lamps and LED tapes opposite the mirror. The reflected light will dazzle, it is better to arrange its perimeter. This way of decorating space uses most designers.

It is no secret that correctly selected light sources provide not only comfort, but also safety when making hygienic and relaxing procedures. Today we are talking about lighting in the toilet, as it plays an important role in creating a comfortable and stylish interior of your home. With the help of lamps, you can emphasize the design details of the design of the bathroom or distract attention from pipelines and ventilation holes.

Types of lighting in the toilet

What lighting is better for the toilet, are determined based on the design of the bathroom, its area, the color solving interior and a number of other conditions. Before making a choice, it is advisable to familiarize yourself with the types of lighting and light sources.

Lighting for bathrooms is divided into three types:

1. General - provides the main light level of lighting.
2. Decorative - used to highlight the interior of the bathrooms.
3. Point - highlights various areas of the room.

Usually lighting in the toilet, as well as in the bathroom consists of a combination of these three species. By type of lamps allocate:

• Halogen. Sources of this type on 12 V can be used in the most wet zones of bathrooms. They are distinguished by low power consumption with a sufficient light stream.
• LED. Lamps in luminaires of this type are not heated, consume little electricity. LED lighting in the toilet is often used for decorative and point illumination. An important advantage of such light sources is the ability to change the color of lighting.
• Incandescent lamps. Classic lamps. Their main advantage is low cost. Such lighting products are wider than any other.
• Luminescent. Their main advantage is low power consumption. These lighting products are cheaper than diode light sources.

By the installation method, suspended, overhead and embedded lamps are distinguished.

Also isolated outdoor, ceiling and wall light sources.

The choice is made on the basis of several conditions.

• Sources of light for the bathroom and toilet must comply with the design solution of the interior of the bathroom. For example, a chrome-plated or nickel luminaires of clear lines and forms are suitable for the bathroom.
• Before choosing the lighting, you need to calculate its level. According to current standards, its level should be approximately 200 luxury or lumens. The power of each type of lamp is translated into lumens by special tables. The light flow of incandescent lamp is approximately 20-30 W per m2, fluorescent lamps give 4-6 W per m2, halogen light sources - 10-20 W per m2.
• When calculating the lighting in the toilet and the bathroom, it is recommended to use typical techniques that are in open access.
• Each lighting device has labeling according to the degree of protection against moisture and foreign objects, which is indicated as IP, followed by a combination of 2 or 3-digit.
• For toilets recommended sources of IP 21-41 protection class.

Correctly selected toilet lighting in the photo below.

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Lighting in a small toilet

Competently organized lighting of a small toilet will allow you to visually increase the area of \u200b\u200bthe bathroom. In the premises of a small area it is advisable to make ceiling lighting. Light from above visually does not twist the already small space of the toilet room.

The type of lamps are chosen, based on the height of the ceilings, a common style, the material of the ceilings.

For example, embedded point halogen or LED light sources are well suited for drywall ceilings.

Flat single lamps with relevant design layers are suitable for rooms with low ceilings.

For toilets with high ceilings, it is better to choose the light source light source.

Options for a successful solution toilet lighting of small size are shown in the photo.

According to the current classification, country toilets belong to the premises of high humidity. Therefore, it is necessary to comply with the following rules.

• When organizing lighting in the toilet in the country, you need to choose IP 55 protection class lamps to IP 66.
• Wiring should be carried out in pipes that will provide additional protection against damage.
• The switch must also have a waterproof version.
• Sometimes the best solution to the question, how to make lighting in the summer toilet, is the use of autonomous lamps with batteries.

If all the same, you decided to make lighting for the toilet in the country from electricity, then first you need to spend it. This can be done in two ways: by air and underground. Conduct a current-carrying line by air easier. If there are no limiting conditions, this method is recommended for the illumination of the country toilet.

For installation, wiring will need:

• Screwdriver Set.
• Perforator with various nozzles.
• Installation knife for cutting isolation.
• Insulating tape.
• Passatia.
• Circumgars.
• Sidewood.
• A hammer.
• Crimp pincers.
• Cartoon.
• 3-wire Wire brand VHI with a cross section of at least 1.5 mm.
• Distribution and switch.
• Metallic cable isolated with hooks for fixing the cable line.
• Corrugation to protect wiring from moisture.
• Porcelain insulator.

Stages of mounting

So, a step-step instruction how to spend the light in the toilet in the country.

1. Come on the fasteners in the walls and fix the cable on them.

2. We skip the wire in the corrugation.

3. Turn off the voltage on the introductory shield.

4. Drills the introductory holes in the walls and lay pipes in them that protect the cable.

5. Install the circuit breaker or the Uzo to which the wire will be connected.

6. Mount the junction boxes, switch and lamps, stretch the wire, carry out all electrical connections.

7. Check the correctness of the connection using the multimeter.

8. Apply the voltage.

According to the current rules of electrical safety, the combined bathroom is divided into 4 zones, for each of which provided its execution of lamps.

• In the zero zone, you can install light sources with a rated supply voltage of no more than 12 V High-voltage class IP 68 or 68.
• In the first zone, you can mount the sources of light sources from IP 55 to IP 66. In this sector, water splashes can be exposed to low pressure.
• In the second zone, it is allowed to install lighting devices in the IP 34-54 housing.
• Zone three. Two meters from the bathroom or soul, where the direct impact of moisture is excluded, the light sources and electrical installation products IP 21-41 are recommended.

To mount the light sources for lighting in the toilet and bathroom with the electrical wiring, the following tools are required:

• A screwdriver with a phase index.
• Two-way construction scotch.
• Insulating tape.
• Lubes.
• Knife with handles from insulating material.

Stages of work on the lighting of the bathroom and toilet

1. I started determining the phase, zero and ground wire. Phase and zero are determined using a phase index screwdriver.

2. Ground conductor - with a multimeter. To do this, switch the device for measuring resistance. One probe applies to a heating radiator or an enthusiastic housing of any electrical appliance. The second alternately check the wires. When testing a grounding wire, the multimeter will show the zero resistance value. It is advisable to mark all the conductors in order not to confuse when installing.

3. Point lamps are set as follows: First you need to clean the wires, connect them to the terminal of the lighting device and install the lamp in the pre-prepared slot.

4. Suspended luminaires are attached to special mounting paws that are hung on the hook.

Lamps with transformers and controllers in the baths can only be set in 3 zone, according to.

5. LED light sources with controllers for lighting in the bath and the toilet are usually delivered in a disassembled form. The assembly starts with familiarization with the instructions.

7. Fix power supplies and controller with the help of construction bilateral tape.

8. Then install decor elements.

The assembly of LED lamps is carried out in the following sequence:

1. Install lamps.
2. Plug power supplies to the corresponding controller channels.
3. Connect lamps to power sources.
4. Fix the control unit and power supplies.
5. Connect the light source.

Bath and toilet are a zone of increased danger of electric shock. Alone lighting in the toilet and the bathroom is better to do, having the necessary experience. If he is absent, you studied the materials in this article will be able to use these knowledge to control the work of a specialist.

In detail on the installation of lighting and wiring in the toilet, you can learn from this video instruction.