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Oh, boy does this bring back memories. The house I grew up in, in the Pittsburgh area, had one of these naked basement toilets. While it was useful for a family of six to have a second toilet for emergency purposes, it was always an anxiety-producing experience to use that basement toilet when at any moment someone would pop open the basement door and start down the stairs, prompting a shout "Don't come down!!!!!" The basement door did not lock.
The best suggestion is just to put a lock on the inside of the basement door, and let people use the basement toilet in peace. If the person using the toilet doesn't have the basement to himself/herself, a curtain is no solution. It's just not private enough, IMO.
A lock on the basement door beats a shower curtain any day. in fact, it can be rather grand sitting in the middle of all that space.
Thanks for the link. It explains how/why you can't see inside at night.
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Caddell said at night while standing outside, she could see the light from her son’s cell phone inside the bathroom but she couldn’t see his hand holding it, or anything else.
David Gideon of the Commercial Glass & Mirror Company built the glass for the structure and he says they had to build several prototypes before finding the right combination of glass that you couldn’t see into.
In order for the illusion to work properly, the outside of the structure must be more lit than the inside, said Gideon.
These bathrooms have no lights on the inside and in order to see at night, LED lights were placed on the outside of the structure, for the illusion to remain.
That's not a Pittsburgh Toilet! Someone changed the picture!
At least the Wikipedia page for "parking chair" still has a picture of Squirrel Hill.
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Come on Hopes, you know better.
