light back on please

Our rental house, which we rent from private individuals, is quite large, especially considering that there are only two of us living in it, and as a result, or perhaps because of a strange construction schedule, it has quite a lot of doors, hallways and light switches.

For example, there’s a hallway that, although it is only short, leads from our kitchen-diner to – first on the right – our second shower (the first is in the upstairs bathroom) and then to – second on the right – our ‘laundry room’, which houses the washing machine and the recycling cupboard, among other things, and also (at night and for part of the afternoon) our tomcat Leo, and finally to – straight ahead – our first toilet (in the bathroom upstairs there’s another one). So it’s all doors.

The hallway initially was quite dark. And it was actually too much hassle to keep turning the light on and off, while we can pass through it in just a few steps. So I once thought it would be a good idea to install a wall lamp with a motion sensor, so that the light turns on and off automatically when it detects movement. We have already benefited a lot from that.

The sensor is not set too tightly, so that …