For instance, you can turn your living room and adjacent powder room into a first-floor master suite and let your adult children have your old master bedroom, or combine your son's old bedroom with the guest room and a secondary bath to create a second master suite upstairs.

WSJ: Re-feathering the Family Nest

This time, the letter was opened in Senator Daschle's second-floor suite in the Capitol itself.

BBC: Senate employees on Capitol Hill

The home is built around a central atrium, and includes a large master suite and a second-story loggia overlooking the water.

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