Accessible design does not need to look clinical. The best adaptations combine independence, comfort and the character of your family home.

A level-access shower should make bathing safer—not create new barriers. Here are four design mistakes families can avoid.

Accessible dwelling design ideas #transformarchitects ​We designed this fully wheelchair accessible home with a covered entrance porch area.

This fully wheelchair accessible open plan kitchen, dining and lounge space, maximises the natural light with the part double height vaulted ceilings and gabled aluminium windows.

A luxury residential new build fully wheelchair accessible home with a lift and a balcony on the first floor which has level access from the first floor lounge.

The ultimate wheelchair accessible bungalow with cedar cladding, metal deck roof and aluminium sliding doors.

One of our luxury residential wheelchair accessible bathrooms featuring flush track hoists, a changing table, a rise and fall bath and a transition gate through to the bedroom. @myhouseidea

One of our luxury residential disability fully wheelchair accessible two storey homes, featuring stone cladding, western red cedar (untreated), black aluminium cladding, black aluminium windows and a metal deck roof to this semi-rural property. ​@house_exterior_designs

One of our disability wheelchair accessible new build home projects featuring a rotating wall on a central pivot between the open plan kitchen, dining, lounge space and the snug.

One of our disability fully wheelchair accessible bungalow projects with a mixture of silicone cladding, aluminium cladding and cedar cladding.

One of our disability fully wheelchair accessible two storey homes, utilising complementary types of stone cladding, western red cedar (untreated), black aluminium cladding, black aluminium windows and a metal deck roof.

One of our disability wheelchair accessible new build bungalow projects with larch cladding, aluminium windows and silicone colour render.

One of our disability wheelchair accessible bungalow extension and internal alteration projects with cedar, silicone render cladding treatments and a metal deck roof.

One of our disability wheelchair accessible home extension with internal alterations project, which has recently been completed features larch and silicone render cladding.

A wheelchair accessible disability new build dwelling with a lift, stone cladding, black aluminium windows & doors and cedar cladding.

One of our disability wheelchair accessible projects, featuring silicone render and vertical larch cladding.

One of our recently completed disability adapted wheelchair homes with vertical larch cladding, white / grey silicone render and grey aluminium windows.

Simply cladding, different facade treatments and a metal deck roof to this wheelchair accessible disability bungalow in Harrogate.

A view from the lift. One of our wheelchair accessible two storey house projects. Fully inclusive disability design everyone arrives on the first floor in the same location.

One of our disability wheelchair accessible bungalow projects, simple yet effective use of cladding for a very long single storey elevation. As disabled architects we have designed a beautiful contemporary fully wheelchair accessible home.

One of our accessible bungalow projects with aluminium doors/windows, silicone render, larch cladding and a covered entrance porch with a large aluminium roof light.

One of our project open plan kitchen spaces with a vaulted ceiling within one of our disability new build bungalow projects.

One of our open plan kitchen / dining spaces within one of our disability wheelchair accessible homes with a lift.

One of our disability wheelchair accessible bungalows with cedar cladding, silicone render, large sliding aluminium windows and a metal deck roof.