Fabulous Accessible Interiors
Finding the perfect holiday home for your trip can be tricky. Hours of research, you look at reviews and maps and Google Street View, available dates and price. Imagine adding in accessibility requirements and the number of properties reduces to only a handful. Of course there are various levels of accessibility requirements and some homes [...]
Regular readers of this blog will know that I've done a few little things here and there to make our bungalow accessible and safe for Mr Wheel Chic Home, but the primary area of the house that's still unaccessible is the garden. We've managed the past five years to get Mr WCH into the garden [...]
Those of you who follow me on Instagram (if you don’t, why not?!) might have seen my stories about our recent decorating exploits and I had a lot of lovely comments from some of you regarding the humour in them. And it got me thinking… How do you decorate with a disability? I thought I’d [...]
As regular readers to the blog will know, Mr Wheel Chic Home has Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. This is the form of MS that starts and just gets worse, with gradual changes over the years. We started to think about adjustments after his diagnosis, but he was still walking without an aid at that time [...]
It's odd isn't it, how I can add the word 'fabulous' next to 'wheelchair' in the title, as when you think of a wheelchair ramp you think of something pretty dull. Mr Wheel Chic Home has recently spent a little more time in the wheelchair than usual due to a number of falls needing stitches [...]
Having spent the large part of the last two weeks helping my mother in law move house after 45 years in her last home it got me thinking. As I had the time to spare I've been helping her sort out before the move and get unpacked after the move, it made me think about [...]
We were recently invited to a BBQ and for most people you look up the date, see if it's free, collect the beer and head off to hang out with friends. For us, it's a little more difficult. We have to make sure the house is accessible for Mr Wheel Chic Home, otherwise we would [...]
I was thrilled when U.S company AeroFlow Healthcare Inc got in touch to ask if I could to work with them on a Guest Post about tips for making your home more accessible with style. AeroFlow Healthcare Inc are a U.S provider of disability and medical aids and during our conversations they mentioned to me [...]
Aah Spring. Time for Easter Bunnies, newly born lamb, daffodils - and house buying. Spring is a popular time to put your house on the market, probably to do with us coming our of winter hibernation, the nights are lighter and the garden and house are getting a spring clean. House buying is a real [...]
Today I wanted to talk a little bit about how to add some va-va-voom to storing the ugly disability aids that we unfortunately have to have around our house. As you might know from my post 5 Tips for styling your house to accommodate a disability there's a number of different options I like to use that [...]