Improve your home for the holidays
These four projects will not only improve your guests' experience, but also add to your own quality of life all year round.
Automate hall lighting
Cost: about $300, depending on the length of your hall
Help sleepyheads avoid stubbing their toes during middle-of-the-night bathroom treks by replacing your hallway wall switches with motion-detecting ones such as Leviton's Occupancy Sensor Switches ($16 each at amazon.com, plus $100 to $200 for an electrician to install them).
Help sleepyheads avoid stubbing their toes during middle-of-the-night bathroom treks by replacing your hallway wall switches with motion-detecting ones such as Leviton's Occupancy Sensor Switches ($16 each at amazon.com, plus $100 to $200 for an electrician to install them).
When set on automatic, they click on as soon as someone walks into the space, and off again after the sleepwalker has padded back to bed.
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