Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Pathway lighting

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> On Jan 20, 2023, at 4:28 PM, Katie Henry <katie-henry [at] att.net> wrote:
> 
> We're in Oklahoma, which gets plenty of sunlight year-round, so solar should 
> be pretty effective. In the gloomy PNW, maybe you should consider running a 
> few electric lights or even just conduit for future wiring (unless it's too 
> late for that). I appreciate dark skies but I'm a night owl who walks the dog 
> at 2 AM and I want enough light to see where I'm going.

In the archives, there is an earlier debate about this. There are small lights 
that can illuminate the edges of walkways without lighting up the whole side of 
a mountain.

The thing to remember is that people have very different abilities to see in 
the dark. The Dark Skies people have said that is because we haven’t trained 
our eyes to see in the dark. That may be true but some people just see nothing 
in the dark. One of our members and I were “discussing” where we needed a sign 
for the bathroom. I wanted to put it on the door and she wanted it on the wall 
beside the door because if the door was open, you can’t see the sign. I said 
but you can just look in and see that it is the bathroom.

We ended up going out into the hallway to look. She honestly could not see well 
enough to know that this was the bathroom. Even though the door blocked the 
ceiling light, I could clearly see a sink, toilet, grab bar, mirror, etc. 

We put the sign on the wall.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org