My house is an intruders nightmare. Child gate at the landing, highly squeaky stairs confined, yappy little dog that barks at anything out of the ordinary. I have 2 methods of defense, my bedroom door, or my sons bedroom door, one faces the stairs, one comes up behind/next to them. I can access either bedroom from the two considering the bathroom connects between them. Plus my dogs pee-pee pads are on the upstairs landing so the criminal would probably step in shit if they did make it to the top, great distraction. Now I just need a shotty for home defenseh: