We have an older house ('66) that was added on to previously ('83). This house is in TX and the local inspectors use the 2009 International Building Code as their base reference. We are remodeling it now to make it more usable for us. Right now we are working on remodeling a long corridor that used to be a walkway through both bathrooms. We want to make them 2 separate bathrooms and a laundry room. Old look was: http://http://simunltd.com/house/backbath-otherway.jpg

The bathroom we are working on now spans the old part of the house and the addition. This means that the best we are going to be able to do is a 7' ceiling in it.

We are trying to figure out how to make lighting work in the room. Since the ceiling is low we are considering recessed LED lights.

We aren't sure if there are any clearance limitations to worry about. (we can't find anything in the building codes specific to this). Would this configuration of lighting be sufficient, and if it needs specific things to make it so, what is needed?

Also, we want to go with LED to be energy conscious, but we are finding that 2700K color light tends to wash out the green tints in tile choices we have, so we want to go with cooler colors (preferably 4000k, but will settle for 3500k). However, these colors tend to be rare in LEDs. Can anyone recommend an LED product that can be had in cooler colors? We are open to BR30's or CREE lights or anything else that might be reasonable in cost.

Here's a diagram of the space:
http://http://simunltd.com/house/MaryBathDiagram-wLight.pdf

Thanks

Mary