Modern Bathroom Lighting

Are you tired of your outdated bathroom decor and ready for a revamp? Do you envy the clean, streamlined, modern bathrooms that are all over sites like Pinterest and Houzz? You can get the hot modern look in your bath or powder room, too! Lighting is an immensely important part of achieving a modern bathroom design. Here are a few hallmarks of modern bathroom lighting and some ideas you can use in your home.

Simplicity

A lot of modern bathroom lighting fixtures keep it pretty simple: just the bulbs, often with a frosted glass covering for more flattering light, and a no-nonsense way to connect the bulbs to the wall. However, sometimes modern bathroom lights take on interesting shapes, such as designs that look like they're from a science fiction movie set in a clean chrome future. Speaking of chrome, that is far and away the most common finish for modern bathroom lights. It's easy to see why, though: chrome is sleek and easy to pair with pretty much any design or configuration of bulbs. Other finishes often used in modern lights include nickel, pewter and brass.

Sconces

Instead of mounting a single strip of lights above the bathroom mirror, many modern bathrooms reimagine illumination by having a sconce placed on each side of the mirror. It does require a little extra wiring work, but provides more even lighting in an important place. Clean and simple sconces with frosted glass (so the bulb isn't bare and harsh) are a perfect way to get modern and rethink the bathroom light scheme.

Pendants

Another intriguing option for lighting a modern bathroom is to use pendants. Sometimes that means hanging pendants to frame a mirror and sometimes that means taking one big, intriguing pendant and using it as the overhead ambient light. We carry a huge variety of pendants that can fulfill any need. Use your imagination!

LED

Long-lasting and energy-efficient, LED lights are particularly well suited to use in modern light fixtures. Their sleek, small size means they can be used in ways that were previously not possible with incandescent bulbs, creating really intriguing shapes and styles. Many LED modern bath lighting fixtures have the lights built right in from the start.

If modern design speaks to you, some brands to look for in lighting include Access Lighting, EGLO, Elan, ET2, Fredrick Ramond, George Kovacs, LBL, Sonneman, Varaluz and WAC, although many other brands also offer modern styles as well.

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Emma Harger-Young - Lights Online