Accessible kitchen without lower cabinets

Kitchen adapted for wheelchair users

Description
An accessible kitchen built in 1969. Kitchen with knee space (no lower cabinets). The upper cabinets are installed at a height appropriate for a wheelchair user; the height cannot be adjusted. There are mobile storage units for recycling and trash and a storage unit with boxes for flatware. The corner cabinet has a rotating rack for pots and pans.

Authors comments
Although the kitchen was built in 1969 it works rather well, according to the tipster, but it would perhaps work even better with adjustable height upper cabinets or cabinets that come forward and down.

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The kitchen was already adapted when the user moved in.

Tip is dated from 2005

Categories for this tip
housing » kitchen, Tips and tricks from people with High tetraplegia with partly function in arms/hands (C5-6, ASIA A, B).