Lighting for your shower is often overlooked, until you take a shower and realize it is too dark in there. Light is a necessity in the shower so you can see what you are doing. There are plenty of ways to add much needed light to your bathroom shower.
If you are lucky enough to have a hard wire lighting fixture above your shower take advantage of it. If your current fixture isn’t bright enough, perhaps you could start with a higher wattage light bulb. Most fixtures have a label next to or under where the light bulb screws in, which tells you the maximum wattage this light fixture can handle safely.
If your current bulb is less than this, then just buy a higher wattage bulb. If your light fixture still is not bright enough for you, perhaps you need to change it out for a new one. Sometimes the type of lighting enclosure is filtering the light badly, perhaps the light fixture is old and not performing well or maybe you need something that takes more than one bulb.
Remember when buying a light fixture that goes directly above your shower, it needs to be enclosed to protect the electrical parts from the water. A glass globe, a plastic dome, or a florescent light fixture with a ceiling flush plastic covering are great options. You can replace the fixture yourself by carefully following the directions, you can get a friend with some experience to help you with it, or you can hire someone to do it.
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