Making Your House a Home – For a Lifetime!
Aging In Place Design
Purchasing a home is an investment for your future. It is the place that you intend to grow your family as you put down roots within the surrounding community - and the place where your kids and grandkids will always call home. When you purchased your home all those years ago – you intended to keep it for a lifetime. After all, it is the vessel that holds so many memories.
Life can have other plans, though, can’t it? As we grow older, we often find that the things in our home we once never gave a second thought about – like the three steps to our front door or the narrow hallway to the bathroom – soon make the home unlivable.
Getting older sometimes means we have to make adjustments to keep ourselves safe. Many feel they have no choice but to move on to a new home with greater accessibility. This can be heartbreaking.
Good news! All Climate Painting and Remodeling knows just how important keeping the family home for a lifetime is to you and everyone in your family. That is why we have made it part of our regular practice to do what we can to keep you thriving in the home you love.
We focus on a few of the most important key aspects of accessibility that creates the perfect aging in place design:
• Easy Access
• Maneuverability
• Good Lighting
• Fall Prevention
• Comfortability
• Low-Level Maintenance
Increasing Maneuverability
Daily life goes on even when we have changes to our living needs. We still need to wash our hands in the bathroom or use the stove in the kitchen. In other words, the ability to maneuver throughout the space and still make use of everything is crucial to find fulfillment.
At All Climate, we want you to keep living well. That is why we want to help you make aging in place home modifications, such as:
It’s making simple changes that can make a world of a difference. For instance, providing for a wheelchair or seated access to the bathroom. To be used in a standing position, the lavatory should be 32” to 36”. Adults in wheelchairs need a lavatory no higher than 34” with knee clearance of 27” at the front edge. Include a multi-height vanity and you’ve got great solutions to accommodate people with special needs.
Fall Prevention
Falling is a very serious concern when getting older. No matter how steady we think we are, it can happen so quickly. Being proactive with your living space is the easiest way to prevent falls in the future. At All Climate Painting and Remodeling, we do what we can to help reduce this risk.
Adding the following to your aging in place design is a great place to start:
• Nonslip floor coverings.
• Grab bars in the shower and next to the toilet.
• Creating level walkways and removing thresholds.
Comfortability
If you are going to continue living in your home, you want it to be as comfortable as possible. Invest in it. All Climate has some great offerings that can make staying home just feel good. For example, Radiant Systems heats the floor under bathroom tile or in specific areas like under your favorite chair.
Taking steps for these accommodations helps eliminate cold spots and drafts and will make you feel more comfortable all around.
Low-Level Maintenance
Face it, getting older may make cleaning and maintaining the home a bigger chore. It needs to get done, though. What if there was a way to keep your living space germ-free and healthy without having to do the heavy cleaning?
Here at All Climate, we find solutions to all sorts of life problems – including this one.
We have:
• Used shower panels with smooth, antimicrobial materials instead of tiles to eliminate the need for cleaning grout areas.
• Undermounted the sink for easy cleaning.
• And used LVP flooring as an economical and low maintenance option for flooring.
Call All Climate Painting and Remodeling and discover all the ways to make your aging in place design a home for a lifetime.
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