Do & Don'ts for Building a Deaf House use wood floors to encourage vibrations; build square, not round, dining rooms; use 4-legged tables; do not wall up the kitchen; restrict peninsula cabinet to bottom cabinets; on-off light switch indicator installed on garbage disposals; one switch to operate both range hood light and fan; kitchen and family rooms situated in front of the house; stairs and lofts to have balusters; exterior doors to have window on the side; three-way light switches and motion-sensitive switches; bath and bedroom to have outside light switches; garages should not be built under the house;
(remember: deaf people are the not same thing as hard-of-hearing. Some deaf people can lip-read well, others don't. Some may hear a little, other don't.) Mike