When it comes to designing a luxury bathroom retreat, one of the most crucial ingredients to its radiance and beauty is its exposure to natural light.
Bright, vibrant and sunshine-filled bathrooms feel more open and airier compared to those dimly lit rooms with poor illumination. With UK summers getting increasingly warmer and brighter, ensuring your bathroom design is best suited to ensure maximum natural light will be a vital step. Thoughtful integration of windows, skylights and other architectural adjustments will allow you to harness the sun’s rays to showcase your bathroom’s best features.
At the Brighton Bathroom Company, we always aim to ensure optimal natural light exposure when designing new bathrooms or conducting a full-scale bathroom refurbishment or renovation.
The Benefits of Natural Light in Bathrooms
There’s something magical about how a bathroom looks and feels when it’s drenched in sunlight. Natural daylight renders bathroom colours, fixtures and materials more vibrant while creating a tranquil, serene ambience that artificial lighting struggles to replicate.
Smaller and more compact bathrooms can often seem larger and more open with more natural light influx, particularly if capitalising on mirrors and glass. Luxury ensuite bathrooms and master bathrooms also obtain an unmistakably bright and airy ambience when sunlight floods in through windows.
Beyond the attractive aesthetic benefits, bathrooms with plenty of natural light provide homeowners with a mental and physical health boost. Sunlight is known to help regulate a person’s circadian rhythm and improve their vitamin D intake, both of which provide a person with more energy. An invigorating bathroom full of sunlight can elevate your daily self-care routine from a chore into a fully rejuvenating experience.
Maximising Natural Light in Bathrooms
When it comes to bathroom design and installation, the Brighton Bathroom Company embraces innovative, creative ways to draw in as much natural light as possible.
Larger window installations are one of the most obvious and effective ways to open the bathroom, assuming its orientation allows for it without reducing privacy. During our bathroom design consultations, we’ll guide you on ideal window sizes, placements and glazing options like frosted glass to balance abundant light with desired intimacy.
For bathrooms with more limited access to exterior walls, overhead skylights make an exceptional source of illumination that brightens the entire space elegantly. For period properties, dormer windows introduce lovely ambient daylight while adding character and time-inspired charm.
Complementing Natural Light
Even with ample natural light sources, bathrooms always need sufficient artificial lights for functionality. While overhead lights illuminate the whole room when the sun goes down, strategically placed lights can brighten corners subtly and without overpowering the senses. Our bathroom design experts can craft the perfect bathroom and lighting layout scheme to ensure you get the perfect blend of artificial and natural light every day.
Our bathroom specialists will work with you to find lighting around mirrors to reduce shadows and ensure even, flattering illumination while you get ready for the day ahead or begin unwinding for the evening. Recessed and embedded bathroom lighting is nothing new for us, and we have seen firsthand that these can reduce dark corners and radiate dim spaces.
A bathroom’s crucial finishing touches also help to brighten it even more. From polished surfaces and glossy tiles to large mirrors and reduced clutter, these materials and fixtures help reflect and maximise the impact of both natural and interior lighting. In turn, this enhances the overall luxury feel of your bathroom.
Free Bathroom Design Quote
If your existing bathroom feels dark, gloomy or confined, introducing more natural illumination can breathe new life and vitality into the space. Or if you’re starting fresh designing a new luxury bathroom, prioritising natural light delivers that stunning spa-like atmosphere.
The Brighton Bathroom Company has extensive experience creating bespoke bathroom spaces that take full advantage of natural lighting opportunities. Our team understands how to optimise architectural elements, materials and lighting to create bright, refreshing oasis-like bathrooms.
Contact us today to discuss elevating your bathroom with natural light, and arrange a free bathroom design quote with one of our team. Alternatively, please feel free to pop down to our luxury bathroom showroom to see the high-quality materials and products we have on show that can make your bathroom glow.