Bathroom niche lighting can add functionality and aesthetic appeal to your bathroom space. Niche lighting brings light to areas that can not mount traditional lamps, such as stone walls, stone lanterns, or bathroom niches. Some customers send us emails to ask how to add lighting to the niche in their bathroom. Today, let’s check how to do it.
To add lighting to your bathroom niche, we need to consider the factors of waterproofing and tiling. This means you need the lighting to be waterproof. The walls are mounted tiles or marble, so we can not drill holes. So we recommend using our tile aluminum channels, which you can recess into the tiles easily. About the light source, you can add high-density dotless COB strip lights as the light source. The LED channels can hold the strip lights properly and protect them from moisture, dust, and damage. It can also be used as a heat sinker for better heat dissipation of LED lights.
What do you need?
- Tile Aluminum LED Channels
- Waterproof COB LED Strips
- LED Power Supply
- Light Dimmer(Not necessary)
- Wires
- Silicone Glue
- Screwdriver
Determine the purpose: Before you install the lighting, decide if it is for accent purposes, task lighting, or both.
Choose the type of lighting: LED strip, puck, or recessed lights are popular choices. We will recommend strip lights, because of their energy efficiency and low heat output. Please ensure the width of the strip lights that the aluminum LED channels can hold. If the width of the PCB board is 8mm and the waterproof version is 10mm. So you must ensure the light channel can hold 10mm strip lights.
Select the colors: there are many colors of strip lights available: single color, dual white, RGB, RGBW, RGBWW, RGBIC, RGBWIC, RGBCCTIC, etc.
How do you install them in your bathroom?
- Painting cement mortar.
- Insert the end caps, then put the profile.
- Stick the tile.
- Mount the waterproof LED Strips and press in the diffuser, then lead out the power cable.
- Seal the wire holes on the end cap with silicone glue.
- Run the cable to the power source and connect the power.
Following the steps above, you could add lighting to the niche for your bathroom, which will give you a stylish and practical tile niche with added lighting that enhances the space. You also can add light dimmer or LED controller to control the strip light to adjust brightness or control color for various scenes.