The light in the downstairs half-bath is one of the original fixtures that marked the point where the builder of this house decided they had spent enough money making it Nice and were now only going to spend as much as necessary for it to be Done. There were three of these in the house, possibly originally four, and they were outdoor fluorescent sconces from IKEA that had been mounted horizontally instead of the expected vertically.
The ballast in these things was Old School and would flicker and ping for at least a second before lighting the bulb. The two in the master bathroom I replaced years ago because I hated them. The last one in the 1st floor bathroom I left because I didn’t want to spend the money at the time. It finally started failing this week.
Rather than find a replacement bulb for this miserable shit, I got a new fixture that takes two real light bulbs e.g. A19 / E26 and which matches the design of the fixtures I put in the master bathroom those several years back. So now, instead of poopin’ in a Silent Hill set piece, you can enjoy 120W equivalent of LED artificial sunshine.
