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Good LED Mirror Brands?

6 years ago

There seems to be so many brands of LED mirrors, but none I've heard of. Can anyone recommend some good ones? Also, any other tips on features or things to look out for would be appreciated as well! Thanks!

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  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    I can't speak from personal experience but I've read that Neu-Type LED mirrors are decent.

    I'm in the middle of a bathroom renovation and bought an LED perimeter lit mirrored medicine cabinet. It's the LTL Kona. It's not installed yet, though.

    Wayfair sells it under their "Orren Ellis" name. I have no idea why they rebrand seemingly 75% of their merchandise. I'm assuming to make it more difficult to comparison shop.

    Regardless, the Wayfair listing has several reviews and most of the less-than-five star reviews are not based on the item itself but rather because of shipping damage.

  • 5 years ago

    @FL Person Hello. I know this post was some time ago, but I wanted to check in and see if you could share how the Orren Ellis LED mirror you installed has held up? I appreciated your post noting the origin of the Orren Ellis brand. I am considering one of the lighted medicine cabinets available through Wayfair, but can never tell if products there are a good option or not (and it's not cheap so I'm leary!). @jtongish I'd also love to hear what you decided on and whether you've been happy if you'd be so kind to share. Many thanks to you both!

  • 5 years ago
    last modified: 5 years ago

    I'm happy with it. But if I were to do it again, I might have chosen a different unit. I chose the LTL Kona because It was advertised as having two selectable LED colors, one which would seemingly match the rest of my bathroom lighting. I keep it selected to 4000K and it does in fact match the rest of my lights quite well. Incidentally, I no longer see this cabinet on Wayfair under any name, though I haven't dived too deeply.

    I also chose this unit because I wanted something that produces a good amount of light and with an LED strip around the entire perimeter, this unit does produce considerable light (advertised at 3840 lumens).

    I'll mention the light switch for this cabinet is inside this unit, along with an outlet. I wanted the light to be controlled by a wall switch, which is simple enough. But the way the unit is wired from the factory, the power to the outlet would be off when the wall switch is off. I didn't want the outlet to be switched, so I did some very simply rewiring of the unit and have the LED lights controlled by a wall switch while the outlet remains "hot" all the time. I'm very happy to have control of the lighting from the wall switch. It would have bugged me to no end to have to open the door to operate the lighting.

    The reasons I might have chosen a different unit are that this unit is not fog free (heated). I knew this when I bought it, but in retrospect, fog free would be a very nice feature. Secondly, because of the perimeter lighting design, in order to open and close the door, one must push-in the lower inner corner of the glass, which operates an internal spring release which "pushes" the door open. In hindsight, I'm a little concerned about the long term sturdiness of this spring mechanism. Many other cabinets simply allow for your fingers to fit behind the lip of the door to manually pull the door open. This is simple with no mechanism to fail.

    Once last point I'll mention; I've often wondered why many cabinets have asymmetrical doors. The LTL Kona does not. The doors are symmetrical. I have this unit centered above my single sink. So, when you're standing in front of the cabinet, your reflection is centered on the split in the mirror. Initially, I thought this would drive me nuts but after a bit of use, I no longer even think about it. As long as the mirrored doors are adjusted properly so that they lie in the same plane, the reflection is fine. It now seems apparent that the reason many cabinets have different size doors is to keep the split in the mirror offset.

    That's the long and the short of it. If I were doing it again, I'd probably give the units from Decadom a good look but I'm happy enough with the LTL Kona. The tile was laid dead flat and the recessed cabinet lip fits nicely against the tile. It looks vey sharp, in my opinion.









  • 4 years ago

    Hello thisisnotadrill-can you tell me the brand of your mirror please:)