How to illuminate your dressing room? Read our practical guide.

A practical guide to dressing room lighting

Every dressing room, no matter how small or spacious, needs proper lighting. It's where you make your outfit choices, it's where you get ready for the next day, it's where you prepare for big outings and special occasions. The dressing room can also become our private enclave, a place where we indulge in our calming routines, meditate or exercise. That's why it's so important to choose the right light fixtures, especially if the room also has a mirror, dressing table or pouffe.

Dressing room lighting plays a key role in its functionality, aesthetics and organization. Here are the top reasons why proper lighting is so important:

Improving visibility

• Making it easier to choose clothes: A well-lit dressing room makes it easy to identify the colors and patterns of clothing, preventing confusion, for example, between black and navy blue
• Shadow elimination: Proper lighting configuration, for example, through the use of ceiling lights or LEDs placed in strategic locations, allows even illumination of the space, eliminating dark corners

Facilitating organization

• Space management: Bright lighting makes it easier to organize clothes and accessories, which allows you to better organize your closet. This makes it easier to spot items that can be donated or discarded
• Visibility of details: Adequate lighting makes it possible to see every part of your closet in detail, which is especially important when storing jewelry or accessories

Aesthetics and atmosphere

• Emphasize style: Lighting can significantly affect the appearance of a dressing room. Aesthetic lamps, such as chandeliers or modern LEDs, can add elegance and character to a space
• Creating a mood: Properly selected lighting not only improves functionality, but also affects the atmosphere in the dressing room. The ability to adjust the light intensity with dimmers allows you to adjust the mood to suit the time of day or occasion

Choosing the right solutions

• Types of lighting: Consider various lighting options, such as LED strips, recessed or pendant lights. Each of these types has its own advantages and can be adapted to the specifics of a given space
• Placement planning: Thoughtful placement of light sources is key to ensure even illumination throughout the dressing room. Placing lamps over shelves or in cabinets can greatly improve visibility

In conclusion, proper lighting of the dressing room not only increases its functionality and facilitates its daily use, but also affects the aesthetics and atmosphere of this important place in the house.

How to light your dressing room - eleven tips to do it right

Here are eleven tips to see if you've forgotten anything when designing your dressing room lighting. Read our guide and make sure your closet is on trend and that you haven't made any lighting gaffes.

• For lighting and illuminating the interior of cabinets and shelves, choose LED light sources. LEDs do not heat up like other types of bulbs, so they can be safely used in the company of branded handbags or perfumes. They are also energy-efficient, so they will serve you for many years, accompanying you in selecting the best creations.
• Closet manufacturers and designers usually equip the built-ins offered to customers with interior lighting strips. If your dressing room is not illuminated in this way, you can install such LED strips or strips yourself to have a better view of the contents of the dressing room. In addition, you can also install spots along the outer edge of the closet, and illuminate the clothes and the interior of the development from below to add lightness to the design.
• The more light sources in the dressing room, the better. Think about directional lights that will illuminate the darkest corners, floor lamp or wall lamps that will positively affect the atmosphere in the interior.
• If there is a hanging mirror in your dressing room, it is worthwhile to additionally illuminate it with symmetrically hung wall lamps or an upper multi-point bar, for example, with directional spotlights.
• Add glitz and character to your space by choosing a striking but functional headlamp. Plafonds and low ceiling lamps work best in this type of room, but if you have a really large, spacious and high dressing room, you may be tempted to go for a designer pendant lamp. Just remember not to choose light fixtures with a visible bulb that will glare at you when changing your closet.
• When choosing light bulbs for your dressing room, keep in mind the color rendering index expressed by a number between 0 (for monochromatic light) and 100 (for white light) and denoted as RAI. The higher the ratio, the more authentic the colors are, and a value of 100 means that objects viewed in this light have colors as if they were illuminated by sunlight. Proper color reproduction is important when it comes to choosing and juxtaposing shades of clothes with each other, or putting on the right makeup, so bulbs with a 90 RA rating will work best in the dressing room.
• Ensure adequate light intensity. Too bright a light will not create an atmosphere conducive to tranquility and a pleasant choice of creations. In addition, if you come home late or if you get up before the sun rises, you probably don't want to enter a room with too much intense, eye-glare lighting. So don't overdo it with the intensity of the light, take care of additional mirror lighting or install dimmers so you can adjust the light output to the time of day and your mood.
• A dressing table has been fitted in your dressing room? Excellent! Illuminate it with side sconces, symmetrically hung pendant lamps or an elongated wall lamp hung along the top edge of the mirror. A standing lamp or an illuminated cosmetic mirror will also be a great idea.
• If the closets in your closet close, make sure that the recessed and shelf lights turn on and off automatically.
• If you are a lucky woman and there is a window in your dressing room, use its superpower and do not cover it with a thick curtain, perfume or jewelry boxes. You will always look and feel great in natural light.
• You care about being in a good mood before the big night out? Put a scented candle in your closet. Nothing soothes and puts a positive mood like the warm flame of a candle, spreading your favorite scent.

The most fashionable designs and best lamps for your dressing room

You already know what to look for when designing lighting for your dressing room. So it's time to look at some projects - proposals from Kaspa that work well in both small and large dressing rooms.

Mija wall lamps, wall sconces and plafonds - a collection inspired by the closets of celebrities Hollywood offers elegant, simple lamps whose design is based on perfectly spherical, small shades and shiny finishes. Mija wall lamps will look beautiful both on the wall and on either side of a mirror or door, a wall/ceiling lamp with three shades mounted on a strip, will be perfect as an illumination of the upper edge of the mirror in the dressing table. Availability in gold or silver finish adds cinematic glitz to Mija lamps.

Astra collection of pendant lamps and wall lamps

This astra collection of ceiling lamps and wall lamps great for any closet. Low ceiling lamps with asymmetrical frames and six or four shades will look beautiful as the central lighting of a dressing room, and accompanying wall lamps will help illuminate mirrors and walls. In addition, Astra lamps are available in three finish colors - silver, gold and a very elegant combination of black and gold, which will look great when paired with a classic closet.

Vero Plafonds

Plafonds, available in two sizes and four finishes, are perfect for elegant, minimalist dressing rooms. By combining a white glass shade with a metal frame with a matte finish, you get not only a functional but also a refined fixture, and versions with a gold or silver finish on the inside of the plafond are sure to steal the hearts of lovers of luxury. Vero plafonds additionally hide up to three light sources and are available in satin black and white.

Spark directional headlights

An alternative to the classic ceiling lamps will be theą directional headlights on Spark strips. Bucket-shaped fixtures, minimalist design and the availability of lamps in versions with two, three and four reflectors will allow you to functionally illuminate any closet and freely distinguish a navy blue jacket from a black one. The collection included lamps in matte black and white and in shiny chrome.

Lamia pendant lamps

Whether your closet is long and narrow or very spacious, there is a good chance that you will like the following in the light of the Lamia lamps. Small, elegant, subtle and in the best style, they will gently illuminate the space, adding class to it. The lamps are available in single as well as triple versions on elongated strips or round ceiling plafonds. The only thing left to do is to choose the finish version - you see yourself more in silver or gold?