Oh, yes. I love your plan. (I never remember names, though...just who I am--can't remember names of composers I like, or book titles, or authors either). Either location will work fine. But, I think I would probably put it on the bedroom hall (the one that runs up and down on the plan, rather than side to side). I think if you use the guest room as a guest room, it would be nicer to not have the laundry room door right there. However, for your convenience, you should do what you like best (since either is really fine). If it would be easier for you to hear the beeps and remember to change the laundry if the door was nearer the living spaces, then put it on the guest hall hall. (But, for this reason (of hearing the beeps in the main living spaces), it might be nice to not have the door on that hall.) Confused yet? :) Really, I like your plan.

I live in the PNW with only 1/2 acre and have no window coverings except in the upstairs master bath-that I close when I'm up there at night. The main floor bath has the lower pane of a double hung window glazed with obscuring glass. One of the things that makes it okay for me is the way the neighbors' houses are sited as well as the outdoor lighting I have on the house...just some old style flood lights that light the areas outside the windows so that I can see the garden areas in the dark, as well as anyone who might be lurking. It keeps the windows from looking too much like black holes. I'm sure if I tried to live with window coverings at this stage I'd feel totally claustrophobic and would always wonder what was going on outside. Plus I'd miss the nocturnal visitors to the yard, the foxes and raccoons (I could gladly miss the possums). I love lying in bed watching the wind whip through the tall firs, with the moon shining behind them. I've gotten used to sleeping in any amount of light or darkness.

I was in a motorcycle accident as a passenger when I was 19 years old. We were going around a sharp curve and the pickup coming towards us was towing a canoe trailer. The trailers fender hit my leg and threw me off the motorcycle and I landed in the street. I didn't realize I was hurt and tried to get up ,I looked at my foot when I couldn't stand right and it was facing backwards ! I had broken my leg in three places. I was in the hospital for 2 weeks. A second accident happened as my DD and I sat first in line at a stop light and the vehicle behind us didn't stop. He rammed into us,- we had a small station wagon- and the impact pushed us into the intersection.Luckily no one else hit us and we were not injured, but totaled the car. In the worst one, i had turned left onto a street and a car pulled out of a side street towards me. She had this HUGE boat of a car. i had a Chevy sprint a little car. She was headed right towards me and there was no where for me to go- there were kids waiting for a schoolbus, so I had no where to swerve. She hit me driverside headlight to driverside headlight head-on. I was pinned in the car. Totalled that one too. I had just made the last payment. It had been my first ever new car too ! I was admitted to the hospital, but was released with bruised knees. I am a firm believer in seat belts. We joke about it now, but since both cars were blue, my DH say's no more blue cars for you !

What a find, that is absolutely GORGEOUS! ! ! And useful, too! Rusty