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You aren't renting, you bought this home. Run a new wire and get it powered how you want.
Or, replace the switches with smart switches, replace the bulbs with smart bulbs, and leave the circuit powered permanently and link the switches to command the bulbs over the network (without using the switches relays at all).
The best long term solution is to run wires in the wall. While you're at it, you could install more plugs in the living room.
But if you don't have the budget for that right now, I would get an inovelli blue series ZigBee smart switch and an aux switch, a ZigBee hub like Home Assistant, and some ZigBee smart bulbs.
Using ZigBee bulbs with the Inovelli ZigBee switch will give you really low latency between turning "on" the switch and the light actually turning on. It's almost instantaneous, unlike some cloud based solutions that can take a second or two, and occasionally just fail.
Thanks. I want to explore some smart solutions before the power tools come out. At this stage, I'm trying to keep scope creep to a minimum as this is part of a much larger fix up project.
Once I install the new flooring downstairs, replace all the receptacles that need replacing, swap out all the ceiling lights that are now dangling because they're going to be replaced, redo the trap under the kitchen sink because the PO made a mess of it and we've got a negative slope, etc etc...I'll likely come back to the idea of running a new circuit, but for now getting always-on power to the outlet for movie night is really my only concern.
Thanks very much of the specific suggestions of the ZigBee hub and bulbs. That was exactly what I was looking for,