Here is a little thing I did to impress the wife.
You know all that china that is collecting dust in your hutch. Well it looks a lot nicer especially in the evening if you accent it with led strip lights. Take a Look.
Lol. You let your wife display that crap? 
I think our wedding china is in a box in the attic.
(I'm a joy to live with)
All kidding aside, it looks pretty cool. Nice job.
I think she uses it once every couple of years. I would like to sell it.
"Happy wife happy life". You don't know how true that is.
No doubt there! I was just being a smart arse.
My wife is an engineer, like me, and tends to toss things that aren't functional/used frequently. I bet I don't actually have any china, but don't honestly know...
But the lights look good in that hutch. And if the Mrs is happy, even better!!
I don't think my wife has any china either, but we do have a big selection of cocktail glassware. (Mostly my acquisitions, but my wife doesn't mind.) We've been planning on building a wetbar, and this does give me ideas...
It is pretty simple to install and I think the Magic Home LED strips are less than $30.00.
100% on LED lighting for WAF/HAF/PAF.
I put one next to our kids bunkbed, which coordinates with their main light and acts like a 3min night light once we turn their room light off (it auto-dims to 20% at 7:30pm regardless)
Closets - LEDs and/or smart-light bulbs are the ultimate WAF for me with fast contact sensors.
Auto-door locking when the door is closed. Piece of mind.
Auto door locking is a polarizing one. I hate it - I simply go in/out too much to put up with the door locking all the time when I know I'll be back in a few minutes.
Yes it really depends on your home's location and your habits.
If you live out in the sticks, you might never lock your doors during the day, but want it to automatically lock at night.
A relative used to live in LA with a front door that opened directly onto the street. It was a nice neighborhood, but close to the ocean, so lots of sketchy foot traffic. If she had automated things, she would have wanted the door to lock 3 seconds after she shut it.
OMG 
@JasonJoel do you two actually manage to get things done or are you always trying to figure out the best way to do things and never actually do them 
Just kiding, you opened the door and I had to step in 
Yes to both.
All kidding aside, the things we each feel strongly about are mainly in areas the other doesn't care about, so it lines up nicely (usually).
After some tweaking I found putting a 10m delay on mine solved it for me...long enough but not too much time. If I'm really leaving for a while I tap the "Schlage" logo on the lock after I shut the door and it locks.
When I'm working in the front yard I'm almost always going in/out via garage (rule enforced by wife so I don't track stuff into the living room). @lewis.heidrick's new version of Auto Lock has a ton of features to customize how it works, so that makes is much more adaptable to many more use-cases.
Auto-locking is one of the few automations my wife loves. 
Auto lights make her uncomfortable sometimes, she says she feels like she is "losing control." (Yes, she is a control freak.)
Eh, I leave my doors unlocked pretty much all the time if anyone is home (competent gun owners are the real deterrent to home invasion in Texas, not locks).
I do auto lock them when I put the house in night mode though.
OK folks, I'm calling off the surprise party we had planned for @JasonJoel at his house this Friday. Do not, repeat, do not sneak into his home via his back window like we planned.
Lol. I don't think it is quite that dire.
Competent should = not trigger happy when it comes to gun owners.
I think I should go your route.
I think we all agree the party needs to be moved to @jrfarrar's house. 
I'm going to be lighting up my wife's new walk-in closet w/lightify/sylvania LED strips...looking forward to her enjoying that very much.
However much like @JasonJoel ... best not show up un-announced or it might be an awkward conversation... LOL
LED lighting makes it taste better. I am only being slightly facetious. I recall that certain frequencies of light (UV?) degrade beer, wine, etc. Hence the common brown or green bottles. The narrow bands emitted by LED should preserve taste (assuming that you don't cycle through the whole stash each week).
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