Installing Recessed Lighting in a Bathroom

So recessed can light, usually the total height of the package of the can is about ten inches. The problem you have in trying to pop these up in the ceiling is you have to have enough clearance into the attic space. The center of the shower is going to be right here. You’d want to put a can above it to get good light. If you look at it right here, you’ve got maybe 8 inches clearance, not enough room. The can’s going to come up and it’s going to be hitting into the roof. You need to be able to get over far enough that you’ve got clearance overhead. The other challenge is the ceiling joints that are running across. Wherever you put that can, you want to put it in between those. You don’t want it to cut into your ceiling joint. If you do want to, you’ll have to end up doing box spring all the way around the actually can light and then reconnect the ceiling joints into that. It’s a lot of extra work, so try to find a spot where there’s some space in the attic and then you can pop one in. Yet, have one in there so that, aesthetically, it’ll fit right in the bathroom layout and it gets you good light.

With a recessed can, we can increase the light. Your bar lights that you get here are usually blaring at you. A lot of people complain that they can see shadows on their face. With a can over head, it pops light down on them as well as light coming at them so now we’re dispersing it in a better pattern. There’s even cabinets for the counter top. You can have some under cabinet light and it’ll shoot light up towards you. That would be the best scenario, but the granite countertop that we’re using wouldn’t allow for that. Instead we’re going to do an overhead can and then we’re going to have a different bar light as well.