My usual carry is a 1911. Although there are times I carry something else, like a Browning HP or Beretta 92. Depending on where we are going and what I will be wearing.
My wife keeps a S&W model 60 3" barrrel in a drawer near her side of the bed. My house gun is a Beretta 92FS.
Okay, now this will make me sound paranoid. Trust me, I'm not. We had a burglery and an attempted home invasion a few years back. We live in a nice quiet middle class neighborhood where nothing and I do mean nothing ever happens. A bunch of banditos from Old Mexico decided to swoop down on my neighborhood and attempted to lay siege to it. They home invasioned an old lady up the street. Thank God she wasn't hurt to bad, got her lights punched out but she got through it in one piece. They hit another house and luckily no one was home when they hit. At the time, I never though to keep a loaded gun around the house. So one night, I hear someone trying to kick in my front door. It is a really big heavy oak affair and not easy to get through. Since it is so big and heavy, I used #12 bolts to hold the door and frame in place (I hate sagging doors) that were drilled and set into the block of the house. So here we are, my wife is in the bedroom calling 911, I'm standing in the front room of the house in my shorts staring at the door with some bad guys trying to kick it in. I scrambled to the gun room and pull out the first thing I see, my old Stoeger mule ear double shotgun. I run over to the picture window and bang on it, level the shotgun at the (now evident) three guys from behind the window and yell the cops are on the way. For a second, the way the held themselves, it looked like there was going to be a fight. Then they broke and ran to a POS pickup in my driveway and took off. The cops showed up in what seemed like eons, but in reality it was only 3-5 minutes. When the dust settled and everyone calmed down, I found out the shotgun was empty.
So now to the I'm not paranoid part. I keep Mossberg 590 in the hall closet closest to the front door. No round in the chamber, but the tube is full of alternating #4 buck and slugs. The gun room is off the family room, there are loaded AR magazines on the shelf by the door. The rifle is within easy grasp on a wall rack just past the door. The hollow core door on the gunroom has been replaced with a steel solid core exterior door as has the bedroom door. No offense, but I will not tell you anything else that I have done for security around the house. Some of my friends tell me that I lost it. But they have never had a scare like that.