Apparently

[kiya]

The mysterious lightswitch in my bedroom that I could not figure out what does controlled the light over the sink.

In the kitchen.

Explanations for why on earth anyone would wire a house this way are encouraged. Plausibility is not required, because duh.

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[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Faking out home invaders, or alternatively, pets, without having to get up.

[brooksmoses]

Wait, those aren't even on the same floor!

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

Practice, for another project?

Cheaper than an intercom given knowledge of Morse code?

[kiya]

The house also has an intercom.

[suzanne.livejournal.com]

Brooks and I used to daydream plans for a Myst-based house. Maybe that is what they were trying to do... But they failed

[elynne.livejournal.com]

I sometimes challenge visitors to our house to play "find the downstairs bathroom lightswitch." It's a very small bathroom, but it always takes them a while to wander out into the hallway and find the switch, which is across the hall. But at least that one is *close*.

Yours... uh. yeah. Okay, see, it was installed when there was a couple living in the house, and the wife would get up early but sometimes forget to make coffee because she didn't drink it, but the husband required coffee to wake up, so before he got out of bed he'd flip the switch to make sure that she saw it and remembered to put the coffee on? It'd work better if the switch was also connected to an outlet... then he could turn on his own damn coffee!

[keshwyn]

The monster in the kitchen drain is afraid of light. You can only hear it coming in the upstairs bedroom, because of a weird acoustic quirk in the house stairwell.

[redbird]

It's the midnight snack light.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

This is my thought, too. Is the light switch in the kitchen far enough away from where one enters the kitchen that one might have trouble finding it in the dark? If so, turn on the light from the bedroom--makes sense to me.

[kiya]

There are three sets of lights in the kitchen other than the one formerly controlled by that switch, all of which have at least one control by any given door.

[cheshyre]

Could it have been a way for the head of household to ping the kitchen staff?

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Flarpswitch!

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

Gas lighting someone.

[duane-kc.livejournal.com]

It's a signal to the kids on Saturday morning that they're *this close* to annoying the parents with the noise downstairs.

[kviri.livejournal.com]

When we first moved into our house, we discovered that our microwave and stove (which are against the wall separating kitchen from bathroom) were on the bathroom circuit.

The switched bathroom circuit.

Nothing surprises me any more.