How to make your home more accessible for elderly or disabled visitors

How to make your home more accessible for elderly or disabled visitors

During this Covid-19 Pandemic we've been mostly at home and we've not had to worry about visiting other people's homes and the worries that come with that for a person with a disability. Now the world is slowly opening up again and we're getting ready to spend time with family and friends again. However, the [...]

How to keep your home accessible and up to date with your needs

How to keep your home accessible and up to date with your needs

It's five years now since I started this blog (thanks for reading, can't believe it's been going this long!) I thought I’d share a little about how Mr Wheel Chic's Home's condition has changed in those years and how we’re dealing with it in the home, the changes that we’re continuing to make and how [...]

Finding the Accessible in the Inaccessible – Garden and Outdoor Spaces

Finding the Accessible in the Inaccessible – Garden and Outdoor Spaces

During Winter, our thoughts generally turn towards Spring and warmer weather, and this leads us into how we might want to use our garden once the weather warms up. With lockdowns during 2020 and 2021, outdoor space became even more important if we couldn't get further afield, and this prompted lots of Instagram posts of [...]

Accessible Living on The Great Indoors Podcast

Accessible Living on The Great Indoors Podcast

If you're an interiors buff like me you're no doubt already a fan of The Great Indoors Podcast - the top UK Interiors Podcast presented by Interiors Expert and TV Designer Sophie Robinson, and the UK's number 1 Interiors Blogger and Writer, Kate Watson-Smyth. Kate and Sophie have presented the podcast for a couple of [...]

Revealed – our Accessible Garden makeover!

Revealed – our Accessible Garden makeover!

Regular readers to this blog will know that our bungalow didn't have level garden access and eventually this prevented Mr Wheel Chic Home from getting out into the garden.  We tried a metal temporary ramp, we tried bits of wood but in the end it became clear we needed to bite the bullet and get [...]