Hi

Can i check with you guys if your helper's room entrance is on the outside of the house or within the inside of the house? Just wondering if there are pros and cons. If outside, every morning she needs to unlock the one of the doors to get in the house cos i imagine i would lock up all the door at night. A bit more inconvenient ...

ideally it should be inside the house for convenience.

if you want the helper's room access to be outside the house, then you also may want to place the toilet for the helper to be accessed from outside as well if it's not going to be ensuite. I've seen quite a few layouts for new houses where the helper's room also have an ensuite toilet.

as you already pointed out, you want to lock all the doors at night. So what if your helper comes into the house during the night and then forgot to lock the door after that? Of cos you could install a digital door lock and door closer as well so that the door will be automatically closed and locked after access to overcome this issue.

ultimately it depends on your layout. For my house, I was considering to have it outside the house since the toilet would be accessed from outside. But in the end decided to change it to be inside the house instead and accessed from the wet kitchen.