Downlight spacing in shower room

Hi! My first post on here.

Im renovating a shower room and am wondering how many downlights are needed. I’m thinking 3 downlights plus however many in the shower.
I’ve attached a scale drawing of the room. The shower consists of a simple glass door which is hinged from a false wall measuring 2m high. I’m concerned it may get dark in there. My original theory was to put a downlight in the shower centralised to the glass door (see pic). But with the false wall being pretty high I’m thinking there needs to be another light down that end of the shower. The problem is the shower head comes from the ceiling and I’m unsure how i’d centralise the lights whilst also lighting it well and avoiding a shadow of the shower head!
Help would be appreciated! Thanks!

If you really want an opinion, then no downlights. Instead choose something which is designed to light rooms up by shining in various directions instead of just lighting the floor. There is a range of opinions on this subject. Bear in mind also that in a bathroom you have additional legal responsibilities like not making holes to allow moisture up into the attic to rot the wood there.

There are millions of downlights in bathrooms in the UK.
But Detlef is right about stopping moisture getting into the roof space.
Look for downlights that confirm to the requirements of Building Regulations part C.
As for positioning. Put lights where you need them.
Having them in straight lines and symmetrical isnt that important. Being able to see to shave is!

Taylortwocities said:

There are millions of downlights in bathrooms in the UK.
But Detlef is right about stopping moisture getting into the roof space.
Look for downlights that confirm to the requirements of Building Regulations part C.
As for positioning. Put lights where you need them.
Having them in straight lines and symmetrical isnt that important. Being able to see to shave is!

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In lockdown? That's crazy talk.

DetlefSchmitz said:

If you really want an opinion, then no downlights. Instead choose something which is designed to light rooms up by shining in various directions instead of just lighting the floor. There is a range of opinions on this subject.

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By all means install downlighter if you want really bright spots on floors and surfaces and deep shadows where you need light.

I'm with the others here - don't use downlights unless you like lighting that creates bright spots where you don't need them (on the floor), hard shadows where you don't want them, and generally are a PITA. I've stayed in hotels designed by people with more attention to style over function and fitted with these things - stood in the bathroom looking in the mirror, face in shadow, light reflecting off my shiny head. Complete carp.

It was really funny watching my daughter doing her make-up while on holiday, she was trying to get light on her face, by turning it upwards, while looking in the mirror. But the row of lights were further from the mirror than she wanted to be

I have 4 pods in my bath room, got them for free, and only reason they are still there is to fill up the holes in the ceiling, and they can be aimed in any direction. Used 4 in mothers wet room it was to look good and one built in to extractor fan so matched built in one, it worked but very high ceiling. I had to install some thing you could hit with power shower without damage, however latter changed to LED and not so sure how it would fair now, but power shower removed so no real problem any more. But I would not now fit down lights.

I'm sure I must have done, so apologies if I've posted this one before.
A friend had a new kitchen installed for many thousands of pounds, it included 22... yes 22 50W downdlighters in place of their 8ft fluo fitting and they were assured they would not need to replace the original undercupboard lighting. At 1.1KW it was more than the rest of the house put together.

Wherever they stood to work they cast terrible shadows on the workspace and the cupboard shelves were in darkness, several times I saw the lady of the house sheilding her eyes from the glare of beams and using a mirror to direct the down light into the cupboards.

I have some 4ft fluo work lights on tripods and placed a couple to replicate the original 8ft fitting, the kitchen was instantly transformed back into a well lit useable space with light into almost every cupboard shelf and minimal shadow on the workspace, the glare was gone as was the axcessive reflection off the shiny black floor tiles.

Needless to say I was quickly asked to fit a new flou fitting which was fortunately very easy as a torch soon revealed the patch in the plaster where I found the JB [round brown with screw terminals so non compliant] hiding. One benefit none of us thought of... the room didn't get so hot although that particular aspect would not be so prevalent with LED.

I can't even begin to count how many times I've replaced downlights with something that actually lights the room and not the floor.
One hall in particular, which has 2 partition walls so it can be divided into half and half again and can seat about 400 total for dinner had a roof leak and the entire false ceiling came down in the big half, they were persuaded to replace the dimmable fluo panels with downlighters, it looked dingy when you entered although tables were reasonably lit. Peopl started specifying which half of the hall they wanted and bookings fell significantly until the downlights were replaced [as a follow up on the insurance claim].