Sounds like another personal preference thing, I guess.
Keeping them the same throughout the home definitely sounds like a good idea.
First one of these I came across I had my clock plugged into one side of a duplex on the opposite side of the bed to the light. I thought the clock had gone faulty for a couple of days until I suddenly realized what was happeing!
Duplexes here have only one set of terminals, so this split isn't possible.
