Wheelchair-Friendly Home Layouts: Fix the Bottlenecks
Does moving between rooms involve reversing, repeated turns or asking someone to move furniture? The problem may not be one room, it may be the route through the home.
🔎 Look for these bottlenecks
Narrow doors and tight corners that make turning difficult.
Raised thresholds between rooms or at the garden.
Furniture and fittings blocking useful turning space.
Poorly positioned controls with switches, handles or storage outside comfortable reach.
🏠How Transform Architects helps
Transform Architects are disability architects who map the full journey from parking or pavement to the rooms that matter. We test circulation, turning and everyday tasks before recommending an extension.
Sometimes moving a doorway or changing a door swing solves more than adding costly floor area. Where more space is genuinely needed, we design it to work with the whole house.
đź’¬ Is your home becoming an obstacle course?
Contact Transform Architects for an early feasibility review. We can identify the changes likely to make the greatest practical difference.
Official reference: Approved Document M provides access guidance for building work in England: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/access-to-and-use-of-buildings-approved-document-m
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