Tips on Bathroom Lighting Safety
I hate my bathroom. I mean the ensuite – the back bathroom (the bathroom at the back of the house, closest to our girls’ bedrooms) is bearable. But the ensuite is my least favourite room of the house. I don’t like the colour scheme, and the fittings are a horrid cream colour. I am a traditionalist – bathroom fittings have to be white. The toilet, the basin, the taps all need to be white. The tiles should be something that goes with white. Same for the towels and the toilet tissues, and the accessories. Cream and brown is dated, dark and disgusting.
So I convinced my husband to have it redecorated. He likes to hire ‘people’ to do work around the house, but when I went through the work involved he decided he could do it himself. Apart from the obvious things like electrical fittings and plumbing – although I’m sure he’d give those a go, if I let him. So off we all went to the bathroom place, and there began the arguments. We ‘discussed’ tiles, taps and toilets. Bathmats, towels and washers. Soap and toilet paper holders, towel racks and shower caddies. Two weeks’ later we were still ‘discussing’ bathroom lights and the little plastic things that go around light and electrical switches. Then we were told that the bathroom was divided into ‘zones’ (who’d have thought?). The areas closest to where the water will be – such as the shower, basin (don’t get me started on plugs!!!) and toilet – need a special kind of low voltage light, and as you move away from these areas, the voltage gradually increases. You can get lights for all the different bathroom lighting zones. Well, we didn’t know this. And so we got out the local phone book to look for bathroom redecorating businesses.
We’re still ‘discussing’ who to hire.