Our home has a toilet "closet": a tiny, windowless room with a door that contains
the commode. Come to think of it, this is the only space in the house that a person
can occupy that does not have natural lighting. And it's a shame, because late at
night, it's a room you WANT to have some low level of light. Suffice it to say,
there's a need for some sort of lighting in there.
Enter the toilet light. My wife bought a small lamp that shines a colored light
directly into the bowl. It's activated by a motion sensor and shows a variety of
colors in sequence. For example, when one first walks into the dark room, the
sensor activates a red light from within the bowl. It's nice for orientation, and
not too bright.
The trouble starts when you get up.
The colors rotate every few seconds. Some of these colors can send you back
to bed with a serious urge to consult Web MD on bladder disorders. Red is okay
when you haven't used the bowl yet, but it's no friend to your feces. The worst
color for this is a sort of lavender, which illuminates one's urine with a deep
peach color — the kind of color that screams "kidney calamity."
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