Bathroom lighting—or the lack of it—is one of the features buyers of new homes complain about most often. This is true not only of minimal-cost houses. The complaint is frequent in expensive homes and rentals, and it's still an issue when owners get around, to remodeling—which is nine years or less in nearly 50 percent of the cases. And, according to one consumer survey, 66.5 percent of 1,100 bathroom remodeling jobs included improvements in lighting. The problem is that nobody involved in house design or construction ever gets around to thinking about bathroom lighting. Homeowners usually end up with lights placed merely as a result of where the electrical subcontractor put the wire and how much
