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Thanks for the great points about designing accessible homes! So helpful!

This was supposed to have been part of a housing grant, housing grant selections initiatives YEARS AGO, as to why most young and older individuals are aging at a faster rate Their mobility Their calcium and other health conditions that is a part of International national real health concerns

Wish I could move there very ahead ofinclusive and accessible design

I am from Nepal ....i amhandicap suffering kidney disease i love this place

Ironing board should be installed next to the door not where it is. With it pulled down it kinda traps you between the board and the counter. If you need to go do something in the middle of ironing you have to completely dismantle your ironing and put everything away so that you can get to the door ... then get it back out again. If the board is installed next to the door it isn't blocking the doorway ... a person could just roll away to go answer the door or whatever without doing anything but putting the iron in a spot where it is safe. Then return to the ironing without a bunch of fuss.

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Wow bless you man

First Link when searching (homes for people using wheelchairs). some really cool things, some stupid, some are just designed by different people?! (Where is the leg room under the second sink?!)

Beautiful provides everything, plenty of space and ultra modern

he should intro the house with seating in the wheelie

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Needless to say, it would be my dream home.

Wheelchair homes sound pretty cool.

A high-rise toilet would not work for someone who uses a commode chair. As a high-level paraplegic I can't sit on a toilet seat, I must use a wheelchair with an open seat.

Do they have these in the USA????? If so where?????

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Thank you so much for your work. We need many more homes like this, worldwide! Each person with a disability will have different needs and different skills, so it will all depend on what the person's needs are.

It doesn’t sound (by accent) that finding this home Alabama, USA! I’m tired of showering outside my current home, which is not a/c adapted. My microwave is in the range hood! I have a TBI, Parkinson’s, hemiplegic migraines and my feet cannot support my weight. So I drag myself to the floor to use the loo, and drag myself to the loo, and pull myself up. I own a full-size van, but it’s 9 1/2 tall and a standard 8 ft garage door is useless! I’d like to live my end days in a home that works for me. I’m a 100% service connected, permanent and totally disabled US vet. Sadly, I served AFTER Vietnam but PRIOR to 9/11, so my us va said there is nothing for my era of service, it was complete PEACETIME, and I was just the pilot dropping ordinance on minor conflicts! Do you know any builders like you, who can build in Alabama? The builders (most commonly used to build and are established in my area) and EVERY ONE of them said “No!” To my requests. Also, most HOA’s feel they can override the ADA Law! Help! Please?

Nice but how much is rent for one of these homes?

What would be the price.... Nice have wheelchair Accessible house.. Nice

I absolutely love what you’re doing with these homes! My husband is a paraplegic and would truly appreciate such an accessible home. Thanks so much for sharing this with us.

exactly what I need, currently living in a spare room with my sister in a standard house. This bungalow would be perfect. UK housing market sucks, too expensive and thought about disabled people and no accessibility

Thank you for building home like these. So wonderful for families and individuals with unique abilities. ♥️

Trying to find references for universal living is so difficult. Thank you for making this video.

ps not sure the door from the garage to the house is wide enough. Aim for at least 90 cm.

Yes great attempt. But you obviously never had a person in a wheel chair in there. The toilet has to be even farther from the wall, so that toilet chair can be on either side. Secondly- the oven is too low. Thirdly- adjustable height on all tables, including kitchen counter is needed. Around the bed, there has to be a way to get into the bed- so instead of a side board sticking out, a grip handle is a good idea (of course that can be added later) But he other things cannot as it is a part of the design. You did not need to pay for an expert- Just ask a few people in wheelchairs to wheel around and tell you would have helped. I often find the "standard" law prescripts often are not good enough- Also- some people have bigger, much bigger wheelchairs than what you have shown. So nice try. Great to think of this type of housing as it is needed.

We are interested in the idea of moving to the Jacksonville area to live in a multigenerational accessible home with our son(wheelchair user) and daughter-in-law and adult daughter. We are retired and would like to be close to our adult children in a home where we can age-in-place. Also, we don’t have an unlimited budget, so buying a huge home is not in our budget.we would need two first floor bedroom with en suite bathrooms. Two more bedrooms and a bath could be upstairs. Any suggestions or comments as to the feasibility of this idea?

спасибо за видео. У нас в России вообще нет жилья, приспособленного для инвалидов.

Thank you for putting this out! There are very few videos and info about accessibility... let alone in a housing situation.

I feel like 50% of homes in the USA should be built for accessibility, and aging independence.

I have a daughter in a power chair with DMD. I’m looking for ADA adaptations for a not so independent person. My daughter would need a ceiling lift for all transfers. Do you have a video/link for something like that?

Fantastic ideas

We need more accessible homes in the usa

That door latch is really not accessible. Plenty of quads or folks with other neurological issues won’t be able to use a pinch grip to turn it. A much better test of whether or not a latch is accessible is to try to open something with just your wrist.

This is a beautiful home and whoever gets to live in it will be one lucky person, however this video needs to be re-done and changes need to be made in that property, if it's for an Independent wheelchair user, I am a paraplegic and have been in a wheelchair for over 40 years and I agree with other comments there is so much not right with this property, however in all fairness you will never please everyone, because each disability is different, but some of the small changes you could make are .. THE OVEN in video you say the height that's easily managed, NO its not, have you tried cooking from a wheelchair? it is too low how is a wheelchair user meant to bend down and lift something into the oven, and worse still when something is hot (that was not thought out at all!) you need an oven like mine where the door pulls down and is chest level and eye level! THE SHOWER .. where is the shower curtain? I know it's a wet room but still need a curtain to prevent water everywhere, also would it not be better to fit the handrails after the person moved in, as disabled people have different ways of grabbing rails etc, so what might work for one person may not necessarily work for someone else, so the positions could be wrong, also the floor looks very flat, does it have a slight dip near drainage so that the water is not going everywhere? THE GARAGE .... would it not be better to have a roofed carport area, as there are so many different types of motability vehicles with adaptions, like I have a side lift and if I drove my vehicle into a garage I would not be able to get lift out, although it looks a roomy garage, just make more sense to have a nice roofed carport. THE LAUNDRY ROOM .... again lovely idea but it's not that wheelchair accessible, the iron board lovely as it is, is a waste of time, for one is there a plug next to ironing board, two would be difficult for wheelchair user to pull it down, thirdly it looks roomy with you standing behind it, but in a wheelchair there is not much room to manoeuvre and if you need to go fetch another garment to iron, say if you forgot to grab something you would have to put the whole thing away to get out, bit of a safety risk there too! THE EMTY WHEELCHAIR ... please DO NOT USE AN EMPTY WHEELCHAIR IN YOUR VIDEO pushing it around the home like a walking frame, would it not have been much nicer to ask a wheelchair user to come and assess the home and help do the video with you, more of a personal touch and they could have helped you make the small changes etc that may need to be done, and not just an able bodied person to sit in the chair, an everyday wheelchair user, myself as a wheelchair user would love opportunities like these to educate, make awareness to people who don't know what it's like, I would happily volunteer, it infuriates me that government want disabled to be more in working places, but how can we be when people don't give us opportunities, or jobs that disabled people should be doing are taken by able bodied people. I do work as a checkout assistant in Tesco, but I would rather have a job promoting awareness or helping other disabled people etc. Anyway on the whole it is a wonderful home for a wheelchair user and great that thought has gone into it, but next time get a WHEELIE in to really show us how good it is.

Why use a hospital chair as a demonstration? Nobody who is disabled will ever use a hospital chair long term

They got so much wrong!

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You'd do better to hire someone with a disability, and for your videos, lets see someone with a disability using the facilities and demonstrating them - if you don't have someone, for christ's sake STOP pushing an empty bloody chair around, we are really sick of being represented by an empty chair! As per other comments, the oven is too low, the kitchen sink is still too high and the taps are at the back where they can't be reached. Some of the basics like the flooring are fine but don't kid yourselves you have NOT built an amazingly accessible home there, you've done a half arsed job to a nice standard of finish.

Was that CARPET in the bedroom? And what about that weird raised sink in the bathroom? So many things not good for folks in wheelchairs...

Having a daughter with a permanent disability and as an architect, I can assure you that most of these are simple and cost-effective solutions that all homes should incorporate. However, the range of those with a disability goes well beyond wheelchair movement and accessibility.

Great video.

Verry nice

Love!

Very nice how to got like this i am Handclap but I can’t afford it 😭

Fabulous - can you ship it out to the UK? 😜

The video would be better if you got rid of the music. People watch this type of video for the info, not the entertainment! At least SPEAK UP!!! The music drowns out much of the discussion, so some of the data is lost!

A lot of thought clearly went into this, but it's also pretty clear that there wasn't a wheelchair user on the design team. There are so many small things that people who live life stood up wouldn't have realised were problems! Obvious things like the floor being smooth throughout the entire house are great and should be standard, and anyone who's ever seen a wheelchair user try to get over a doorstep could see that. But that oven is all wrong - people in wheelchairs can't lean down far enough to open and close that door. I was vaguely hoping for an oven with a horizontally opening door, but even then it's too low for taking things in and out to be any kind of easy or safe. And while the ironing board is a nice feature, the latch that holds it against the wall is too high for somebody sat in a wheelchair without very long arms to reach. And the sinks are all great for using while in a chair, apart from the laundry room sink, which is just sat in a regular cabinet. It's a lovely idea, but every single detail should have had someone who it would apply to looking at it, and it didn't.

A lot of thought clearly went into this, but it's also pretty clear that there wasn't a wheelchair user on the design team. There are so many small things that people who live life stood up wouldn't have realised were problems! Obvious things like the floor being smooth throughout the entire house are great and should be standard, and anyone who's ever seen a wheelchair user try to get over a doorstep could see that. But that oven is all wrong - people in wheelchairs can't lean down far enough to open and close that door. I was vaguely hoping for an oven with a horizontally opening door, but even then it's too low for taking things in and out to be any kind of easy or safe. And while the ironing board is a nice feature, the latch that holds it against the wall is too high for somebody sat in a wheelchair without very long arms to reach. And the sinks are all great for using while in a chair, apart from the laundry room sink, which is just sat in a regular cabinet. It's a lovely idea, but every single detail should have had someone who it would apply to looking at it, and it didn't.

That shower sucks. I don't want the toilet getting all wet every time I shower.