Fabulous Accessible Interiors
If you're a wheelchair user you will be well aware of the design challenges as you go about your daily business - lack of dropped kerbs in a city, restaurants you can't access, lack of accessible toilets, shop aisles being too narrow and counters being too high. When hunting for a home there's likely to [...]
In my occasional series about finding accessible inspiration in the seemingly inaccessible, I wanted to share today some of my favourite kitchens and utility rooms on Instagram and how they have some features and ideas that we can steal if we're planning an accessible space. There will be elements of the kitchens I'm going to [...]
Those of you who haven't spotted the hashtag #InclusiveChic on my social media, Vaila from The Inclusive Home and I have relaunched the hashtag and set up a new Instagram account to share the best accessible and inclusive ideas around. So far we've been really pleased with the level of support and input the hashtag [...]
That's an odd title isn't it? How can you find accessible interiors inspiration from inaccessible places? Fact is, I think you can get interiors and accessible design from anywhere and everywhere. Just because a space isn't technically accessible, it can still give you some ideas for how you might be able to adapt it to [...]
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 [...]
Last month, Vaila from The Inclusive Home and I started a new Hashtag across Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest called #inclusivechic We set up the hashtag to start conversations around inclusive, accessible or disabled design that we love. This could be things we've seen in our own homes, or great architecture or design we've seen that [...]
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 [...]
The space under the bed is usually one of the least utilised spaces in our home and yet it's a large opportunity for storage that we don't often think about. I'm on the look out for a new storage bed in my spare room and so I wanted to share some ideas... If you're a [...]
Our kitchen is an awkward shape, being "L" Shaped, with the shorter part of the L being the original kitchen and the longer part being an extension (from before we moved in). The original kitchen part is dark, with no windows and full of cabinets and the newer part has windows on three sides. It's [...]