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I was watching one of those find a home shows on TV the other night with my family. The couple were first time buyers looking in Cabo San Lucas.

Every single place, was a 2 story house. Every single place had the best views from the bedroom.

The bedroom! The place where most of the time when you're in there, it's dark or you have your eyes shut.

How stupid. Why not have the living area on the 1st level and the bedrooms on the ground floor? Then when you're relaxing during the day or in the evening (before it gets dark) you'll get to enjoy the views? Plus, you can put lots of windows and skylights into the top floor while leaving the lower floor darker with fewer window - because you're going to probably want to sleep in the dark, right?

I suspect this is just a habit architects have gotten into. The living area goes on the ground floor, bedrooms on the raised floors. Has there ever been a test done to see if houses laid out in this manner sell better than those with reversed layouts? Is there some innate or vestigial need for us to sleep off of the ground, if given the choice?

Of course, this relates to internet businesses, because everyone needs to periodically ask themselves if they are stuck in habits no longer making any sense.

What would happen if you shook things up a bit? Flipped this and flopped that? Take some time to evaluate your assumptions and question all of your actions. Then test them against what you are already doing.

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