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Just want to me-too Ruaidbrigh's reco's and to point out, as a long-time homeowner, that you don't have to do all the renovations at one time. For me, at least, there's a big difference between spending $1000 to replace all the switches in the house and spending $100 to replace a couple switches every month or so. Big difference between spending the whole weekend re-wiring switches and a quick after-coffee task.
This is such good advice. You replace the switches one at a time, when you realize that it'd be nice to have that thing automated. Trying to do it all at once... that's eager optimization. It's overwhelming, and you'll end up replacing switches that you never use.
The exception is switch panels; my house has a couple 3- and 4- switch panels. When one of those wants automating, I give it a good, hard think about doing all of them while I'm in there.
But the bite-size advice is gold.