elizabeth422
06-13-2012, 05:09 PM
I am wondering if there is anything that I can do to my home to make it more handicap accessible......
Here is what i have so far...
My home is three bedroom and three baths. It has only one small hall for me to go down actually I don’t consider it a hall. It is only about 3 feet long so its not hard to get through. All the doors in the home are 3 foot wide. I love to garden and therefore my family had be six raised gardens fixed they are approx. 3 foot high and 2 foot wide made from landscaping timber. Surrounding the garden beds is a nice wooden or cement walk way to make my rolling easier along with a water and water hose at the edge of the garden. I have a huge cement parking area and a cement walk way that goes from the carport in the back all the way up on the front porch of the house. We have a cement patio with a cement ramp going from the back door of the carport onto the patio and a cement ramp going from the patio out into the yard going to my sisters home. I have three dogs that I take out so my family added a wooden fence around the patio area so I will have them contained and I don’t have to worry about them running off. All of the electrical sockets throughout the entire house are about 3 foot off the floor so I don’t have to bend over to plug anything in.
My bathroom that I recently built onto my bedroom is wonderful. We have two bathrooms and both were very hard for me to use due to their size. So i had a large bathroom built on to my bedroom. It is 16 ft by 16 ft.it has a pedestal sink so i can get all the way up to it without my legs or my chair hitting it. I have a vanity that is simply a very pretty piece of wood that is mounted to the wall with a large mirror hanging on the wall behind it. It is mounted so that i can wheel up under it and be able to reach everything. My toilet is up against a wall and another wall as built beside it so i have a stall with grab bars on call sides to assist me with transferring. Above the toilet I have selves built within my reach that holds my wipes, pads, etc that i might need while on the toilet.... I have a roll in shower with two shower heads one is attached to the wall and the other is removable....the shower has grab bars on all the sides and i a shower bench in it. I was having problems with the little lip on the shower floor so i had a rap built so it is a smooth roll up to the bench. I also have a Jacuzzi next to the shower with built up sides that are even with my wheelchair so I can transfer into the Jacuzzi tub without a problem. I have cedar wood walls and ceiling and tile floor for easy cleanup…..I have two doors one coming from my bedroom into the shower and then a second door going out into the carport that I use if my wheelchair gets dirty from my gardening or if I have those accidents that sometimes occur being disabled.
Here is what i have so far...
My home is three bedroom and three baths. It has only one small hall for me to go down actually I don’t consider it a hall. It is only about 3 feet long so its not hard to get through. All the doors in the home are 3 foot wide. I love to garden and therefore my family had be six raised gardens fixed they are approx. 3 foot high and 2 foot wide made from landscaping timber. Surrounding the garden beds is a nice wooden or cement walk way to make my rolling easier along with a water and water hose at the edge of the garden. I have a huge cement parking area and a cement walk way that goes from the carport in the back all the way up on the front porch of the house. We have a cement patio with a cement ramp going from the back door of the carport onto the patio and a cement ramp going from the patio out into the yard going to my sisters home. I have three dogs that I take out so my family added a wooden fence around the patio area so I will have them contained and I don’t have to worry about them running off. All of the electrical sockets throughout the entire house are about 3 foot off the floor so I don’t have to bend over to plug anything in.
My bathroom that I recently built onto my bedroom is wonderful. We have two bathrooms and both were very hard for me to use due to their size. So i had a large bathroom built on to my bedroom. It is 16 ft by 16 ft.it has a pedestal sink so i can get all the way up to it without my legs or my chair hitting it. I have a vanity that is simply a very pretty piece of wood that is mounted to the wall with a large mirror hanging on the wall behind it. It is mounted so that i can wheel up under it and be able to reach everything. My toilet is up against a wall and another wall as built beside it so i have a stall with grab bars on call sides to assist me with transferring. Above the toilet I have selves built within my reach that holds my wipes, pads, etc that i might need while on the toilet.... I have a roll in shower with two shower heads one is attached to the wall and the other is removable....the shower has grab bars on all the sides and i a shower bench in it. I was having problems with the little lip on the shower floor so i had a rap built so it is a smooth roll up to the bench. I also have a Jacuzzi next to the shower with built up sides that are even with my wheelchair so I can transfer into the Jacuzzi tub without a problem. I have cedar wood walls and ceiling and tile floor for easy cleanup…..I have two doors one coming from my bedroom into the shower and then a second door going out into the carport that I use if my wheelchair gets dirty from my gardening or if I have those accidents that sometimes occur being disabled.