Building a house, couple questions

You'll need at least one outlet on each wall just in case.

Add outlets to places you don't think you will ever use them, it is easier to add now.

When my brother and his wife built a house, she had them put an outlet in the pantry. The electrician almost didn't listen to her. She used that outlet all the time.

Do you know where you will put your Christmas tree? make sure an outlet is there or very near.

I wish I could build, I have so many ideas.

I had at two level kitchen island that I hated. When redoing the counters, I dropped it to one height and have eating stools around it. Love it now!

I would also make my plugs USB, especially in the bedroom.

Since your room is open concept, I would put a couple floor outlets in so that you could add a lamp or speaker that might need power. Start by measuring off where you think your furniture placement will be and add one at each side of a sofa or sectional.I would also consider the tops of cabinets, outside spaces (think patios and near the base of roof lines, etc) and odd places like fireplace mantels that you may want to do Christmas decorating. 

As for other things to consider, add a hose bib on each side of the house.

My sink is on a large, flat island. I love it that way. It gives us more counter space and it's easier to serve food on.

Outlets on either side of where you plan to put the bed.

In the house we live in, there is a large master closet that i would LOVE to keep the ironing board in, but the is no outlet. There also isn't one in the laundry room besides for the washer/dryer.

Also i would love some in cabinet outlets (particularly in the bathrooms) that i could use to hide away charging things like toothbrush, hair clippers, sonicare. I hate having all that stuff out but if i put it in the cabinet the batteries die before in going to use it.

I would also love to have them in the cabinets (kitchen and bathroom, closets too). Plug things in and have them hidden. I hate clutter

I love our single level counter - ours is a peninsula, but same concept. It's the width of the cabinets below plus 8 or so inches for the overhang for stools. I love how open it is and makes a great spot for serving food buffet style and it's a great space for rolling out pizzas etc. Our sink is on the other side of the kitchen, but you could probably still see dishes if we kept them in the sink - we're just not dirty dishes in the sink people ymmv.

I would have added a light over the tub so I could read better.
I agree with Christmas lights and don't forget the outside lights.

I forgot one more. In our bedroom and living room, we had two outlets placed whete our TV would be--one low and one high so we could mount our TV.

I also would have had them run a couple wires outside so music inside had a couple outdoor speakers as well.

Not elrctrician related, and at this stage, you're probably past this, but my husband wished the house gas line ran outside for grill hook-up.

I'd definitely have the island one level. In fact, do you have to have the cooktop in the island? The house we are in now has just a big island and it's so handy to have that large flat surface. Baking, food serving for a crowd, food prep, cutting out fabric, school projects... it's really handy to have all that space. We also have room for barstools, which I also like. I can be prepping or working in the kitchen and people naturally sit down and talk to me.

If you still use regular alarm clocks, add more than 2 plug ins next to the bed. I like the alarm on my clock better (gradually increases in volume). With a phone plugged in there, the alarm, the light, and our adjustable bed, I need an adapter to be able to plug everything in.

Outside faucets--will you have a deck? Do you have a water faucet there? In this house, there isn't a faucet on the deck, so I have to either string the hose all the way across the yard or haul water out to the deck to water my herbs and flowers. And our deck is only 2 steps high. Put in an outlet off the deck as well. We have lights in our gazebo and had to improvise with an extension cord that we ran under the deck from the house.

I'm curious what you would have an outlet for in a pantry, unless it's a room rather than a closet sort of pantry. But there have been many pantries that I'd want a light in. Get it so that when you open the doors, the light comes on. Very handy to not fumble for a light switch and shouldn't be a big expense if there's already electrical in there and the walls are still open.

And another...

Light switch next to the bed to turn out overhead light.

We added an outlet in the master bedroom walk in closet. Love it. I keep a small upright rechargeable vacuum plugged in and can easily vacuum the upstairs in between cleanings.

We have outlets just above our kitchen cabinets, so if we want decorative lighting there it's possible. In the mantel too.

More than one two-plug outlet on either side of the bed, especially if you have lamps, chargers, power bed, use an electric blanket or mattress pad, etc. You need more places to plug things in than you think.

We have a partially open stairway to the basement, so there is a railing that's a few feet long that connects to a wall. We had the electrician come back and add an outlet in the wall on the stairway side so we could do Christmas lights/garland on the railing.

An outlet on either side of outside doors, front and back.

We have lots of places where we have switches that control lights also controlled by other switches. For example, we can turn on the upstairs hallway lights from downstairs and from a couple different places in the hallway - so if we get home late we can turn on those lights before going upstairs and then turn them off when we get to the master bedroom.

We also have everything that can be dimmed on dimmer switches. Love that.