Stylish Bathroom Shaver Lights
A bathroom shaver light is, in effect, a two-for-the-price-of-one affair – not only does it illuminate your bathroom but you can plug your razor into it too!
As with all bathroom light fittings, shaver lights are assigned an IP rating. Electrical regulations divide the bathroom into a series of zones and these zones correlate to the IP ratings. It is vital, therefore, that before you go to purchase your shaver light, you know exactly where you are going to fit it. In reality, of course, the likelihood is that it will go above the mirror over the sink.
IP, which stands for Ingress Protection, tells you how much moisture protection an implement has; the higher the IP number the greater the moisture protection. In general terms you are looking for IP44 and above. Do not buy any bathroom electrical equipment that isn’t IP rated.
If you find yourself wondering whether to choose a single voltage or a dual voltage shaver light, just go for the model that you like the best. Unless you have frequent or regular foreign visitors to your house you will be fine with the single voltage model. If you do go for a dual voltage light, changing the voltage is as simple as flicking a switch, so there’s nothing to worry about.
0275 Bathroom Shaver Light £65.58
If you’re a style freak, well, shaver lights don’t really offer much in terms of funkiness! As these fittings tend to be small and of low profile, though, that’s not really going to be an issue – and chrome goes with any decorative style. In purely practical terms, you should seriously consider a model that features frosted glass, which means your reflection will less of a shock to the system in the morning.
And, just because it’s called a shaver light doesn’t mean it can’t be used for the application of makeup! You can use it for recharging your toothbrush too.
If you have nothing more than a ceiling light in your bathroom, you’re missing a trick. Illumination cast by central pendants or globes not only creates shadows but, by the time it reaches your reflected image it’s also lost most of its strength. This means you are likely to go out into the world with patchy makeup or an uneven shave. There is a better way.
Let’s face it, despite the glossy and moody images you see in interior magazines, what really matters in the bathroom is vanity lighting. The bathroom, after all is the place where miracles happen: you go in looking dreadful and come out looking wonderful. At least, that’s the theory. This miraculous transformation can only happen if you have the right lighting set up, which is generally accepted to be a light above the mirror and one lamp each side at round about eye level. Which is, of course, exactly where you’ll put that new shaver light.
See, a bathroom shaver light – essential in the vanity lighting stakes and somewhere to plug your razor. Two for the price of one (or three if you count recharging the toothbrush)!
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