Light Placement Above Medicine Cabinet

You can also use cardboard to cut out the mirror dimensions.

Light placement above medicine cabinet.

A successful bathroom lighting plan has multiple light sources including both overhead and task with good task lighting at the sink and mirror being key. You can also use the vanity as a guide. Any fixture with shades that point down would light the top of the cabinet. A medicine cabinet can be heavy you ll need help supporting and moving it as you work.

How to position vanity lights on a bathroom wall. In those situations a wall mounted vanity fixture above the mirror is an option. We have a 36 mirrored three door frameless medicine cabinet in our small master bath. Any of these techniques will allow you to easily make adjustments to the placement.

We realized the light fixture we selected to go above our medicine cabinet doesn t work because we are not recessing the cabinet into the wall. Place the light about 40 inches above the top of your vanity. Because the medicine cabinet sticks out the light fixture doesn t protrude from the wall enough for light to spill over the cabinet and not be blocked. Vanity lighting is primarily utilitarian.

Short of building some sort of box to attach the fixture to to align the light with. To position your mirror first mark the outline on the wall with a pencil or painter s tape. It isn t meant to add ambiance to a room but to assist in the tasks that you perform there. Getting yourself ready for the day can take effort but the job is easier with adequate lighting at the bathroom vanity.

Install the light above the medicine cabinet or mirror at a height of about 75 to 80 inches from the floor.