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1. My home office and family room have telephone and cable outlets behind the optimal television locations.
   Why?  Who needs the unsafe and unsightly wires running willy-nilly throughout the rooms.

2. My home office has two telephone cable runs and two cable outlets.
   Why?  Residential  & business lines, facsimile line, security line.

3. In the Kitchen,  telephone and cable for the kitchen 'work' area.  Often the cordless telephone base-station is located here.  Having a television in the kitchen sure is nice.
   Why?  Cooking shows and news are two good reasons in my book.

4. Telephone jacks in the downstairs storage closet especially if you are considering the lift/elevator option.   This jack should be roughed-in 48 inches floor to centre, on the inside of the proposed lift/elevator shaft on the opening side of the door.  The side the handle is on; the side opposite to the hinge point.
   Why?  The elevating devices branch of your Province (or state) my require a telephone inside the elevator.

5. Always ensure a telephone and coaxial cable run to the lock-set of both the front and rear doors, and any other significant entrance ways to your castle.
   Why?  Future intercom, security or remote options and other uses not yet considered.

6. In the master bedroom, keep peace in the family, be sure to install both telephone and cable.  In point of fact at this juncture you might as well do all the bedrooms.  Heaven forbid  one child should have access and not the other(s).
   Why?   In house social service, children's own telephones, televisions and computer lines....  Have you ever lived with a 15 year old?

7. A telephone jack in the garage has proven very handy.
   Why?  Using a speaker phone I am able to get some great car-buff advice while lying on my back looking into the operating parts of my (not collector edition) '73 Mercedes.  Besides, who really wants to run through the house only to find out your library book is overdue?

8. All rooms should have a four-pair, low-voltage run which returns directly to Node Zero.
   Why?   In spite of our best efforts we always will have the "Boy, I sure wish I had...."