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When starting with a clean sheet of paper (new home to be built), one of the simplest but yet overlooked items can be lighting and the ease of access to control it.
Examples: Knowing we enter through the garage more than the front door, we put four-way switches on certain interior lights. Coming home late? Walk in, press the switch by garage/mudroom entry- we get two lights that illuminate the upstairs hallway. Going up to bed, one of the switches outside the bedroom shuts them off. Same switched lights at the other end of the house, outside the guest bedrooms.
Hear something outside at night? I put exterior flood lights next to the windows in the upstairs master bedroom. Not only can they be controlled from downstairs, I can flood the front and rear entrances by switches just a few feet from our bed.
The key being - think how you move through your home. Position lights and switches accordingly to save having to go back and turn off lights and then be in the dark till you reach the next switch.
Put the master bedroom on the OPPOSITE end of your kids/guest bedrooms. All parties like the relative seclusion that gives.
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