CHandeliers are all the rage in bathrooms now a days. You have to watch code (draw a box, 3' by 8' high from any source of water...you can't have open bulbs in that box) but with your vaulted ceiling, you're probably fine there. Actually you're fine if you aren't having any inspections too, but I just discovered that my lighting falls in that box (because some idiot might stand on the tub deck, with a tub full of water and change a lightbulb, slip and hold onto the socket with their finger in it, and then electricute themselves and others).

In my opinion any idiot that stupid deserves it heh heh but that's code, so I thought I'd share it since you mentioned the whirlpool :) Look at a couple of design magazines on bathrooms..you'll see chandeliers in almost all of them.

We don't have a vaulted ceiling, but I love the look of a hanging light and was able to accomplish that in our master bath.

Joan

Joan, that is a beautiful bath, love that wall color. I was going to put a chandellier over the tub. I was going to make sure it was high enough so if anyone stands up in the tub will not touch the light. We don't have any codes in our city. I know it's crazy. We have some, but nothing strict about placement of light fixtures.

Hmmm, I hope we don't have any such codes either. Ours is wired but not installed. It is probably about 1 ft away from edge of tub and 7ft high.

I love the look of a hanging light in a bath. I think you should do it. And then inform all family members not to change light bulbs when the tub is full of water :-)

Your hanging light is beautiful. This is just what I would like. CODE sometimes gets in the way, but it is for safety. I will make sure no one changes light bulb while the tub is full of water standing on the edge!!!!

We don't have a vaulted ceiling, but managed to squeeze sparkles here into our tiny remodel. Missing a few baubles in these pics, but you get the idea.

budge, love your chandellier

It's hanging fixtures, track lights and paddle fans that are restricted from a zone 8 ft vertically and 3 ft horizontally from the rim of a tub or shower threshold and within that zone fixtures must be rated for damp locations and if a shower spray can hit them they must be rated for wet locations.